earthquake
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)earthquakes
- shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activitySynonyms: quaketemblorseismType of geological phenomenonKinds seaquake, shock, tremor
- a disturbance that is extremely disruptive“selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees”Type of disturbance, disruption
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Noun shaking of the surface of a planet
- Spanish
- terremoto
- French
- tremblement de terre
- German
- Erdbeben
- Italian
- terremoto
- Portuguese
- terremoto
- Turkish
- deprem
- Russian
- землетрясе́ние zemletrjasénije
- Arabic
- زِلْزال zilzāl
- Chinese
- 地震 dìzhèn
- Japanese
- 地震 jishin
31 more languages
- Dutch
- aardbeving
- Polish
- trzęsienie ziemi
- Swedish
- jordbävning
- Greek
- σεισμός seismós
- Korean
- 지진 jijin
- Indonesian
- gempa bumi
- Vietnamese
- động đất
- Hungarian
- földrengés
- Portuguese (PT)
- tremor de terra
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 地震 dìzhèn
- Albanian
- tërmet
- Catalan
- terratrèmol
- Czech
- zemětřesení
- Danish
- jordskælv
- Esperanto
- tertremo
- Estonian
- maavärin
- Finnish
- maanjäristys
- Georgian
- მიწისძვრა mic̣isʒvra
- Hebrew
- רְעִידַת אֲדָמָה r'idát adamá
- Icelandic
- jarðskjálfti
- Kurdish
- erdhej
- Latvian
- zemestrīce
- Malagasy
- horohoron-tany
- Norwegian
- jordskjelv
- Romanian
- cutremur
- Scottish Gaelic
- crith-thalmhainn
- Serbo-Croatian
- potres
- Slovak
- zemetrasenie
- Slovenian
- potres
- Swahili
- tetemeko la ardhi
- Welsh
- daeargryn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; — called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock.
Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to operate on the theory that a few seconds before the occurrence of an earthquake the magnet temporarily loses its power.
Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; startling.
The earthquake voice of victory.— George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
(IBM) The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the San Francisco Bay Area quake of 1989 was initiated by the company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California plants. [Jargon File]
(1995-04-22)