What is the Difference between a twister and a Tornado?

Question

Alot of people say its the same thing then why have 2 names there has to be atleast one difference

Answer 1

They're the same. A "twister" is a less scientific name given to the phenomenon by people who experienced them in the midwest.

Answer 2

A twister and a tornado arre the same thing. The only difference in the two is the Tornado is the scientific name for a twister. Its just the region where you grow up in, that you call a tornado a tornado, or a tornado a twister. Its like calling soda-pop- pop in the midwest and wherever else it is popular. There is no difference between soda and pop just the name.

Answer 3

The words tornado and tornado are the comparable in meanings. The words cyclone, hurricane and hurricane are the comparable in meaning. the 1st has an extremely small radius and the latter has a radius of 1000's of miles. The international places the place the be conscious hurricane is used is Asia. there's a video out before talked approximately as tornado. ought to wanna check out that with the gang. The English language has as all languages do a minimal of two procedures of asserting each little thing.

Answer 4

Tornado, twister, and cyclone are all the same. Twister is just more of a slang word.

Answer 5

Same thing. Twister is just slang. Haven't you seen the movie Twister? It's about tornadoes...

Answer 6

They are the same thing. Twister is slang for tornado. For the origin of the word tornado, scroll down.

TWISTER:

noun
1. a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground [syn: tornado]
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TORNADO:

noun
1. a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
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Some common, related slang terms include: twister, whirlwind, cyclone, funnel, wedge, tube, finger of God, Devil's tail, rope, or stovepipe.

Word Origins Library > Words > American Word Origins tornado
Origin: 1804

A tornado is a storm with a twist, and the word tornado took several twists before it landed with its current meaning in the United States. It comes ultimately from the Spanish for thunderstorm, tronada, turned into ternado by English sailors in the 1500s to mean "a violent tropical storm."

Americans brought it ashore to describe the destructive whirlwinds distinctive to our continent. In 1804 a newspaper in Fredericktown, Maryland, gave a precise description of a "Tornado" that went through a village: "Within the vortex before the cloud a column of thick vapour, very black, extending from the earth to the heighth of about 40 feet, and advancing rapidly in the direction of this place was discovered by several inhabitants."

In the twentieth century, such a storm has also been called a twister, as in the 1996 movie of that name, but tornado still carries more weight.

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Answer 7

It's really no difference. "Twister" is just a short or non-scientific way of saying "Tornado".

Answer 8

I think twister is a term mostly used in the south...and tornado elsewhere..

Answer 9

twister is the nickname for tornado

Answer 10

it's like most things like like different languages and different gods. over here in the u.k. we call it a tornado, in america i reckon they call it a twister!?