glacier
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- noun
- /ˈɡleɪʃər/
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glaciar
- And then it'll flow along the base of the glacier out out to the sea.
- glaciers melt
- glacier ice
- glaciers flow
Just as we were about to make it down the glacier, rain's back.
- Just as we were about to make it down the glacier, rain's back.
- But you know, you see, you see glaciers melting.
- It's going to the glaciers, the, the, it's all melting.
- These these cliffs and hills were carved by glaciers from the bones of sea creatures.
- If I was trapped on a glacier, my ears would be the first thing to go.
- And she's one of the world's experts on glaciers, big hunks of ice made by snow.
- I believe we go inside of a glacier just into freezing ice cold rock.
- You can't hide the fact that glaciers are all melting all over our planet.
- We saw eagles, a bear, sea lion, sea Otter, and multiple glaciers.
Examples
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Thousands of years ago, all this was covered in glaciers.
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Just as we were about to make it down the glacier, rain's back.
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This is the largest glacier in Russia.
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Mostly, it looked like the glacier had just left the White Mountains.
Fiction book (1991) -
Dry valley streams are fed by melting glaciers and flow only for up to 10 weeks each year.
Academic text (1999) -
Hiking over one of the world's largest glaciers should be a good hike.
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You can't hide the fact that glaciers are all melting all over our planet.
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As much as 90 percent of some glaciers have melted in the past 85 years.
Academic text (1996) -
There is widespread evidence for the retreat of tropical glaciers in South America and Africa during the 1900s.
Academic text (2000) -
The Swiss Alps are home to many breathtaking glaciers that attract tourists every year.
Synonyms
A huge sheet of ice that covers most of a continent and spreads outward from its center
A large mass of ice that forms in a high mountain valley and slowly moves down it
A large mass of ice that forms near the North or South Pole
A large mass of ice that forms when ice in valleys join and spread out at a mountain base
Compounds
- Specialized
A huge sheet of ice that covers most of a continent and spreads outward from its center
- Specialized
A large mass of ice that forms in a high mountain valley and slowly moves down it
- US
A small plant with bright yellow flowers that grows near melting snow in high mountains
- Specialized
A deep vertical hole in a glacier where melt water falls through the ice
A large glacier near Juneau, Alaska that people can visit to see blue ice
- Specialized
A large mass of ice that forms when ice in valleys join and spread out at a mountain base
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Glacier comes from old French glace and Latin glacies, both meaning 'ice'. So a glacier is like a slow river of ice that moves across the land.