2. (General Sporting Terms) a person who plays a game or sport professionally. 3. (Music, other) a person who plays a musical instrument. 4. (Film) an actor. 5. informal a participant, esp a powerful one, in a particular field of activity: a leading city player.
Though the word monsoon is often used to refer to a single thunderstorm, it is actually the name of the large scale weather pattern. The word derives from the word mausin, Arabic for âseasonâ or âwind shift.â It is now used to refer to a seasonal wind shift and the precipitation produced as a result. Parts of Africa, Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe experience a monsoon season.
In the Indian subcontinent, a cloudburst usually occurs when a pregnant monsoon cloud drifts northwards, from the Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea across the plains, then onto the Himalaya and bursts, bringing rainfall as high as 75 millimeters per hour.