Did you by any chance mean eyeball?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather of a cyclone occurs
Examples
“We have what we call eyewall replacement cycles, and the thunderstorms build up and then they collapse, and then the wind speeds increase or decrease along with that.”
“And that eye that you see -- these eyes go through what we call eyewall replacements.”
“And these bigger, stronger storms will go through these what we call eyewall replacement cycles.”
“A new eyewall is forming, and WTVJ Channel 6's Roland Steadam is saying it should come ashore by tonight.”
“And, in addition, there are still many sections of the so-called eyewall that are weak.”
“We're watching it go through what's called the eyewall replacement cycle.”
“Obviously we get you back down toward Key West, and that's where the eyewall is making landfall now, maybe not quite into Key West, maybe the landfall, the eyewall is a few miles north of Key West, but folks there don't want to split hairs, because I tell you what, the winds are more than they counted on for sure right now.”
“In Irene's case, that pattern known as eyewall replacement was interrupted, and the storm didn't gather as much strength as most of the models suggested.”
“Suddenly, a band of air at a certain radial distance starts rotating more strongly than the others; this becomes the "eyewall" - the region of strongest winds that surrounds the eye in a hurricane.”
“Melor had a nearly complete inner eyewall, which is surrounded by a nearly complete outer eyewall of moderate rain.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyewall’.
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Great Race Horse Names10
poetry in motion - words at work.
illuminator, bonk, testify to love, passion for gumbo, grimacing, above a whisper, jazz ensemble, dinner in the diner, marginal reality, scalding passion, you wont like it, umber and 216 more...
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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It's a Twister! It's a Twister!
Tornado terminology.
twister, funnel, eye, eddy, mesocyclone, tornadogenesis, storm cell, supercell, landspout, waterspout, vaporspout, whirlwater and 33 more...
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June list
chagrin, mellifluous, irresolute, indefatigable, steups, solecism, eyewall, comeliness, paragon, wanton, compendium, impale and 12 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eyewall.
mtc Conversely, there is the walleye. Jun 13, 2012