Usually means: Violent rotating column of air.
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  1. tornado: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tornado: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tornado: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tornado: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tornado: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tornado, tornado: Wordnik
  7. tornado: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tornado: Wiktionary
  9. tornado: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tornado: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tornado: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tornado: Dictionary.com
  13. tornado: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tornado: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Tornado: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tornado: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tornado: Rhymezone
  19. Tornado (m), tornado, tornado, tornado, tornado (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tornado: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tornado: Free Dictionary
  22. tornado: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tornado: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tornado: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tornado: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tornado: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tornado: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Tornado: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See tornadoes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To sweep through something violently.

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