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  2. Category:Weather warnings and advisories - Wikipedia

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    Hazardous seas warning; Hazardous seas watch; Hazardous weather outlook; Heat advisory; Heavy freezing spray warning; Heavy freezing spray watch; Heavy snow warning; History of Atlantic hurricane warnings; Hong Kong rainstorm warning signals; Hong Kong tropical cyclone warning signals; HURCON; Hurricane force wind warning; Hurricane local statement

  3. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Sleet warning WSW (alt.: heavy sleet warning) – Heavy sleet accumulations of 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.1 cm) or more, which may cause significant disruptions to travel or utilities, are imminent or expected to occur within 12 hours. Discontinued beginning with the 2008-2009 winter storm season and replaced by the winter storm warning for heavy ...

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings ladder a run (vertical split) in the fabric of tights: a vertical or inclined set of rungs or steps. lavatory toilet: closet in passenger vehicles (e.g. trains) containing a toilet and washbasin/sink. washbasin, place for washing lay by (v.), lay ...

  5. Glossary of tornado terms - Wikipedia

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    Capping inversion (cap); Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS); Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR); Chaser convention – Originally it referred to serendipitous meeting of chasers in the field akin to "chaser convergence", but now it mostly refers to the National Storm Chasers Convention Archived 2013-06-22 at the Wayback Machine held annually in the Denver, Colorado area.

  6. Lists of pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with negative connotations; Category:Sex- and gender ...

  7. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of English-language idioms. List of 19th-century English language idioms; List of kennings; List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names; List of Newspeak words; Longest word in English

  8. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    a synonym of among acceptable in British English while seeming old fashioned or pretentious in American English [15] anorak a hooded coat (US parka); a socially impaired obsessive, particularly trainspotters (US geek, trekkie, otaku, etc.) answerphone an automated telephone-answering machine, from the trademark Ansafone (US & UK answering machine)

  9. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...