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STORM SIGNAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A signal announcing the approach of a storm (particularly a storm of marked violence)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("storm signal" is a kind of...):
sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "storm signal"):
storm cone (a canvas cone hoisted to warn of high winds)