Pineapple Express is a non-technical term for a meteorological phenomenon characterized by a strong and persistent flow of atmospheric moisture and associated with heavy precipitation from the waters adjacent to the Hawaiian Islands and extending to any location along the Pacific coast of North America.

A Pineapple Express is an example of an atmospheric river, which is a more general term for such narrow corridors of enhanced water vapor transport at mid-latitudes around the world.

After being drained of their moisture, the tropical air masses reach the inland prairies as a Chinook wind or simply " a Chinook ", a term which is also synonymous in the Pacific Northwest with the Pineapple Express.

In the decades before about 1980, the local term for a Pineapple Express was " Hawaiian Storm ".

Pineapple as a slang term can also mean:

Since the mid 1990s, the term Militia has all but vanished in favour of the term Primary Reserve.

Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth Nations, and in most publications of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ).

Primary markets create long term instruments through which corporate entities borrow from capital market.

< nowiki >*</ nowiki > Marks a record 6th term for Democrat Wayne T. Rutherford after defeating William M. Deskins & Scott C. Sykes in the Primary Election

Vincent Mazzeo was re-elected without opposition for another four-year term in the November 8, 2011 general election, while New Republicans Lisa Brown and Jim O ' Neil defeated Democratic challengers to win seats representing Wards 1 and 2 respectively in the November 8, 2011 general election, after defeating incumbent Regular Republicans Cindy Kern and Brian Smith in the June Primary.

Primary care is the term for the health care services which play a role in the local community.

The school was closed in May 1968 and the children transferred to Caistor Primary School where they joined existing classes, in some cases for just one term before going up to secondary school.

During his term, government created the EBAIS ( Primary Teams of Basic Health Care ) as an effective provider of preventive medicine in the communities, primarily by giving easy access to medical services.

Sutherland used the term " Tide " to describe the inherent fluctuation of fluids in the Primary Respiratory Mechanism.

Primary sources of funding for long term care and the hospital are Medicare and Medi-Cal.

Oakar unsuccessfully ran in the 2001 Cleveland Mayoral Primary and served a single term in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2000 to 2002.

Primary metaphor is a term named by Joseph Grady for the basic connection that exist between subjective or abstract experiences such as good and concrete experiences such as up.

He attended St John's Primary School in Croydon, the Arden School in Knowle ( for one term ), Solihull School, an historic independent school in the West Midlands and Worthing High School which was then a state Grammar School for boys.

In term one of the 2009 school year, Croydon South Primary School merged with Tinternvale Primary School.

During the 2008 U. S. Presidential Primary season, Olbermann began using the term " Keith number " in reference to the sum of a pre-election opinion poll's margin of error and the percentage of respondents who are undecided.

Primary immigration is a term which describes the movement of the earner of a family, or a young unattached single man, from one country to another, usually to improve their economic condition.

* Designated Primary Market Maker-a term used in options and derivatives trading

Despite legends of posadniks such as Gostomysl that were set in the ninth century, the term posadnik first appeared in the Primary Chronicle under the year 997.

Primary markets creates long term instruments through which corporate entities borrow from capital market.

When the winter term began in 1973, the entire school was under one roof-this was the Primary School building.

Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth Nations, and in most publications of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ).

The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).

The term Big Brother originates from George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally " regarding the head " ( referring to execution by beheading ).

The term " bowl " originates from the shape of the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California, which was built in 1923 and resembled the Yale Bowl, built in 1915.

The term originates from the ( dēmokratía ) " rule of the people ", which was coined from δῆμος ( dêmos ) " people " and κράτος ( kratos ) " power ", around 400 BCE, to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states, notably Athens.

The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial trash bins, Dempster, who use the trade name " Dumpster " for their bins, and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool.

The term dolmen originates from the expression taol maen, which means " stone table " in Breton, and was first used archaeologically in Théophile Corret de la Tour d ' Auvergne's Origines gauloises.

The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods ; other crimes were called misdemeanors.

The term originates from the bedroom at the time of childbirth.

The term originates in the United Kingdom general elections for the House of Commons.

The term comb originates from the similarities between simple harmonicas and a hair comb.

The word originates from the Latin loco – " from a place ", ablative of locus, " place " + Medieval Latin motivus, " causing motion ", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.

This term originates from the thread-like topological defects observed in nematics, which are formally called ' disclinations '.

The term originates from joining mono ( one ) and rail, from as early as 1897, possibly from German engineer Eugen Langen who called an elevated railway system with wagons suspended the Eugen Langen One-railed Suspension Tramway ( Einschieniges Hängebahnsystem Eugen Langen ).

Although meritocracy as a term is a relatively recent invention, the concept of a government based on standardized examinations originates from the works of Confucius, along with other Legalist and Confucian philosophers.

The term originates from a 1906 address by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War, subsequently published in essay form in 1910.

The term " nibble " originates from the fact that the term " byte " is a homophone of the English word " bite ".

The term score originates from tally sticks, and is perhaps a remnant of Celtic vigesimal counting.

The term originates from a 1981 show, " New York / New Wave ", curated by artist Diego Cortez.

The term itself originates from Greek: παλαιός ( palaios ) meaning " old, ancient ," ὄν, ὀντ-( on, ont -), meaning " being, creature " and λόγος ( logos ), meaning " speech, thought, study ".

The title originates in the term " pr-aa " which means " great house " and it describes the royal palace.

The term conflict of laws itself originates from situations where the ultimate outcome of a legal dispute depended upon which law applied, and the common law courts manner of resolving the conflict between those laws.

The term originates from the meaning " alongside ", and psychology.

The term " profane " originates from classical Latin " profanus ", literally " before ( outside ) the temple ".