rogue wave en · NOUN
Meanings
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An unexpected, dangerously large wave.
Then one giant crest spills green water over the bow and stops our 100-ton vehicle as though it had ploughed into a gargantuan hay bale. . . . The rogue wave our experimental 78-foot craft hit must have been well over 10 feet high.
1974 June, Ben Kocivar, “75-knot ocean-going surface-effect ship”, in Popular Science, volume 204, number 6, retrieved 28 Oct 2015, page 91:Scientists still don't know exactly how rogue waves occur, nor do they know how to predict them.
2010 March 4, Bryan Walsh, “Cruise-Ship Disaster: How Do ‘Rogue Waves’ Work?”, in Time, retrieved 28 Oct 2015:One of her owners, Mark Litchfield, was quoted by United Press International as saying a “rogue wave” might have knocked the ship over.
1984 June 4, Robert D. McFadden, “18 Missing, 1 Dead and 9 Rescued as Tall Ship is Lost near Bermuda”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Oct 2015:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rogue waves | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
episodic wave · monster wave · killer wave · freak wave
Translations (13)
cmn 瘋狗浪 /疯狗浪 (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · de Monsterwelle (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · de Kaventsmann (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · sv jättevåg (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · fr vague scélérate (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · nan-hbl 痟狗湧 /痟狗涌 (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · pt vagalhão (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · fi jättiaalto (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · sv monstervåg (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · ja 巨大波 (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · it onda anomala (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · de Riesenwelle (unexpected, dangerously large wave) · nan-hbl 痟狗湧 /痟狗涌 (unexpected, dangerously large wave)