Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A windstorm that is accompanied by a quickly moving, usually bow-shaped band of showers or thunderstorms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Mexican and Spanish law:
- noun A strong wind or squall blowing straight forward, without any apparent cyclonic rotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
windstorm withstrong straight -line winds .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And I saw the priest with his skirts tucked up scrambling over a bench and those after him were chopping at him with the sickles and the reaping hooks and then some one had hold of his robe and there was another scream and another scream and I saw two men chopping into his back with sickles while a third man held the skirt of his robe and the Priest's arms were up and he was clinging to the back of a chair and then the chair I was standing on broke and the drunkard and I were on the pavement that smelled of spilled wine and vomit and the drunkard was shaking his finger at me and saying, '_No hay derecho, mujer, no hay derecho_.
For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940
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El estatus migratorio de Turista No-inmigrante le da derecho de quedarse en México por un período no más de seis meses sin derecho a extensión.
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El estatus migratorio de Turista No-inmigrante le da derecho de quedarse en México por un período no más de seis meses sin derecho a extensión.
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El estatus migratorio de Turista No-inmigrante le da derecho de quedarse en México por un período no más de seis meses sin derecho a extensión.
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El estatus migratorio de Turista No-inmigrante le da derecho de quedarse en México por un período no más de seis meses sin derecho a extensión.
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El estatus migratorio de Turista No-inmigrante le da derecho de quedarse en México por un período no más de seis meses sin derecho a extensión.
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El estatus migratorio de Turista No-inmigrante le da derecho de quedarse en México por un período no más de seis meses sin derecho a extensión.
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More importantly they will often confuse derecho and derecha and of course sometimes derecho is derecha so allowing them to get directions on their own is not usually successful.
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In July, a powerful, long-lasting straight-line windstorm known as a derecho hit Iowa.
unknown title 2011
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Weather officials said a derecho is a widespread and long-lived straight line wind storm associated with a fast-moving squall line, producing winds over 58 mph.
News for NBC13.com 2009
fbharjo commented on the word derecho
What a rech and tangle!
July 19, 2011