Chinook definition

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A moist warm wind blowing from the sea in coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest.
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A warm dry wind that descends from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, causing a rapid rise in temperature.
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The Chinookan language of the Chinook.
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A warm, dry wind descending from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, causing a rapid rise in temperature. These winds often melt snow quite rapidly, at times at a rate of up to a foot per hour.
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A member of any of several Chinookan-speaking peoples formerly inhabiting the Columbia River valley eastward to The Dalles and now located in southern Washington and northern Oregon.
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A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the lower Columbia River valley and adjoining coastal regions of Washington and Oregon, now located in western Washington. The Chinook traded widely throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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The warm, dry wind blowing intermittently down the east side of the Rockies during the winter and early spring, which causes the rapid thawing of snow.
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A moist, warm wind blowing from the sea in coastal regions of the Pacific Northwest.
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(Canada, physics, meteorology) The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. The chinook generally blows from the southwest, but its direction may be modified by topography. When it sets in after a spell of intense cold, the temperature may rise by 20–40°F in 15 minutes due to replacement of a cold air mass with a much warmer air mass in minutes.
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The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha[[Category:Entries using missing taxonomic name ({{{2}}})|Oncorhynchus tschawytscha]]).
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(uncountable) A Native American language of the Penutian family of Oregon and Washington.
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A member of a North American Indian people of the Columbia River valley and adjacent regions.
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Either of two languages spoken by this people, Lower Chinook, now extinct, and Upper Chinook, still spoken in Oregon and Washington.
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A Chinook salmon.
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Noun

Singular:
chinook
Plural:
chinooks

Origin of chinook

  • Chehalis (Salishan language of western Washington) c'inúk

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • After the Chinook

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Chinook Sentence Examples

  • In the west the climate is generally delightful, it being there greatly affected by the warm, dry " Chinook " wind which blows from the Pacific Ocean; to some extent the wind modifies the temperature nearly to the eastern border.

  • In 1906 sugar refineries were projected at Hamilton, Kalispell, Chinook, Laurel, Missoula, Dillon and Great Falls; and in 1907 the crop was so large that 12,000 freight cars were needed to carry it and the railways had a car and coal " famine."

  • The descending winds on the eastern slopes of the ranges are frequently warm and dry, to the point of resembling the Fhn winds of the Alps; such winds are known in the Cordilleran region as Chinook winds.

  • These winds are known as Chinook winds.

  • Em has temporarily player matching buddy program named Chinook.

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