Whirlwind

Noun

 * 1) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
 * 2)  A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward.
 * The weeks leading up to the convention were a whirlwind of preparation and hurried activity.
 * Once he got that new scooter he turned into a whirlwind and damaged all the flowers.

Derived terms

 * sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

Adjective

 * 1) Rapid and minimal: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind guide.

Thesaurus
Charybdis, ado, baguio, blaze, burst, bustle, convulsion, cyclone, dizzy round, dust devil, eddy, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, flurry, furore, fuss, gale, gurge, gust, gyre, hurricane, irruption, maelstrom, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, pirouette, pother, rainspout, rat race, reel, rotary storm, round, sand column, sandspout, seizure, spasm, spin, storm, surge, swirl, tempest, tornado, turn, twirl, twister, typhoon, upheaval, vortex, waterspout, wheel, whirl, whirlblast, whirlpool, whirly, wind eddy

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 旋风
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: pyörretuuli
 * German: ,


 * Greenlandic: anoraarsuaq
 * Hungarian:
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese: turbilhão
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog:, ipu-ipo


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 一片忙亂, 一片忙乱 (yī piàn mángluàn)


 * Finnish: pyörremyrsky
 * German:


 * : ioma-ghaoth, gaoithreag , cuairt-ghaoth
 * : vihor


 * :సుడిగాలి(sudigaali)