A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
synonyms: samiel, simoon.
Roget 349:
wind,
draught,
flatus,
afflatus,
efflation†,
eluvium†;
air;
breath,
breath of air;
puff,
whiff,
zephyr;
blow,
breeze,
drift;
aura;
stream,
current,
jet stream;
undercurrent.
gust,
blast,
squall,
gale,
half a gale,
storm,
tempest,
hurricane,
whirlwind,
tornado,
samiel,
cyclone,
anticyclone,
typhoon;
simoon†,
simoom;
harmattan†,
monsoon,
trade wind,
sirocco,
mistral,
bise†,
tramontane,
levanter;
capful of wind;
fresh breeze,
stiff breeze;
keen blast;
blizzard,
barber [Can.],
candelia†,
chinook,
foehn,
khamsin†,
norther,
vendaval†,
wuther†.
windiness
etc.
adj.;
ventosity†;
rough weather,
dirty weather,
ugly weather,
stress of weather;
dirty sky,
mare's tail;
thick squall,
black squall,
white squall.
anemography†,
aerodynamics;
wind gauge,
weathercock,
vane,
weather-vane,
wind sock;
anemometer,
anemoscope†.
sufflation†,
insufflation†,
perflation†,
inflation,
afflation†;
blowing,
fanning
etc.
v.;
ventilation.
sneezing
etc.
v.;
errhine†;
sternutative†,
sternutatory†;
sternutation;
hiccup,
hiccough;
catching of the breath.
Eolus,
Boreas,
Zephyr,
cave of Eolus.
air pump,
air blower,
lungs,
bellows,
blowpipe,
fan,
ventilator,
punkah†;
branchiae†,
gills,
flabellum†,
vertilabrum†.
whiffle ball.
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Roget 382:
heat,
caloric;
temperature,
warmth,
fervor,
calidity†;
incalescence†,
incandescence;
glow,
flush;
fever,
hectic.
phlogiston;
fire,
spark,
scintillation,
flash,
flame,
blaze;
bonfire;
firework,
pyrotechnics,
pyrotechny†;
wildfire;
sheet of fire,
lambent flame;
devouring element;
adiathermancy†;
recalescence [Phys.].
summer,
dog days;
canicular days†;
baking
etc.
384;
heat,
white heat,
tropical heat,
Afric heat†,
Bengal heat†,
summer heat,
blood heat;
sirocco,
simoom;
broiling sun;
insolation;
warming
etc.
384.
sun
etc.
(luminary)
423.
[Science of heat]
pyrology†;
thermology†,
thermotics†,
thermodynamics;
thermometer
etc.
389.
[thermal units]
calorie,
gram-calorie,
small calorie;
kilocalorie,
kilogram calorie,
large calorie;
British Thermal Unit,
B. T.U.;
therm,
quad.
[units of temperature]
degrees Kelvin,
kelvins,
degrees centigrade,
degrees Celsius;
degrees Fahrenheit.
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Dutch: samoen
Polish: chamsin, hamsin, samum