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Bitter Lakes is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BITTER LAKES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bitter Lakes

Great Bitter Lake

The Great Bitter Lake is a salt water lake which is part of the Suez Canal. It is connected to the Small Bitter Lake, through which the canal also runs. Before the canal was built, their site was occupied by dry salt valleys. Together, the Bitter Lakes have a surface area of about 250 km². The canal also runs through Lake Manzala and Lake Timsah, north of the Bitter Lakes. As the canal has no locks, sea water flows freely into the lake from the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. In general, north of the lakes the current reverses seasonally, being north-going in winter and south-going in summer. South of the lakes, the current is tidal, reversing with the tides in the Red Sea. Fish can migrate, generally in a northerly direction, through the canal and lakes in what is known as a Lessepsian migration. By this means some Red Sea species have come to colonize the eastern Mediterranean. In the later part of World War II, the lake was used to intern Italian warships which had surrendered to the Allies, including the battleships Vittorio Veneto and Italia. On 14 February 1945, on the Great Bitter Lake, U.S. President Franklin D.

Definition of Bitter Lakes in the English dictionary

The definition of Bitter Lakes in the dictionary is two lakes, the Great Bitter Lake and Little Bitter Lake in NE Egypt: part of the Suez Canal.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BITTER LAKES

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WORDS THAT END LIKE BITTER LAKES

ABS brakes
antilock brakes
Chrissakes
cornflakes
ducks and drakes
go like hot cakes
Great Lakes
high stakes
jakes
Lakes
Lower Lakes
Masurian Lakes
no great shakes
nursery stakes
pull up stakes
raise the stakes
stakes
sweepstakes
the shakes
wakes

Synonyms and antonyms of Bitter Lakes in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Bitter Lakes» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BITTER LAKES

Find out the translation of Bitter Lakes to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Bitter Lakes from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Bitter Lakes» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

苦湖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Lagos Amargos
570 millions of speakers

English

Bitter Lakes
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कड़वे झील
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البحيرات المرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Горькие Озера
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lagos amargos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তিকর লেক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lacs Amers
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tasik Bitter
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bitterseen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビター湖
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쓴 호수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bitter Lakes
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Hồ đắng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கசப்பான ஏரிகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कडू झरे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bitter Lakes
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Laghi Amari
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gorzkie Jeziora
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гіркі Озера
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Lacurile amare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Πικρές Λίμνες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bitter Mere
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Bitter Lakes
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bitter Lakes
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BITTER LAKES»

The term «Bitter Lakes» is used very little and occupies the 180.575 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BITTER LAKES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Bitter Lakes

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BITTER LAKES»

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Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the ...
The Bitter Lakes and the Gulf of Suez? Saint Jerome (late fourth century a.d.), as mentioned above, recognized the geographical problem posed by Numbers 33:8 -10. It is well known that he worked closely with Jewish rabbis and studied ...
James K. Hoffmeier, 1999
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Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers with Commentaries
It was only natural therefore that such a fauna of shallow level bottoms, adapted to high salinities, should invade the Bitter Lakes after the opening of the Canal. The Halophila fauna of the Bitter Lakes can be compared with that of such ...
Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, James H. Brown, 2004
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Water Resources and Environmental History
Between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Pelusium, there is a depression, which is evident by the Bitter Lakes and Lake Timsah. The depression has indeed some undulations between the Bitter Lakes and Lake Timsah and further between Lake  ...
Jerry R. Rogers, Glenn O. Brown, Jürgen Garbrecht, editors
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Fraser's Magazine
This lake it seems partly to ass through, partly to skirt; but t ere will be no saving of canalization except at the Bitter Lakes. The Be ort divides the entire course of t e canal into ' two principal descriptions of soil: first, clay from Suez to the Bitter ...
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A Course of hebrew study
dence, also, that Heroopolis, (from which the western bay of the Red Sea had its name among the Greeks, Heroopolilan Bay), stood at or near the head of the Bitter Lakes, seems to be incontrovertible ; especially that which is derived from the ...
Moses Stuart, 1830
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Fraser's Magazine
I860.] 130 series of undulations with very gentle slopes,' to Lake Menzaleh. This lake it seems partly to pass through, partly to skirt ; but there will be no saving of canalization except at the Bitter Lakes. The Keport divides the entire course of the  ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Thomas Carlyle, 1860
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The Nautical Magazine
I have little doubt of twenty-six feet having been excavated in depth from Port Said to the Bitter Lakes, and therefore, there ought to have been no vessels aground which only had a draught below eighteen feet. We heard also the Bitter Lakes ...
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New Monthly Magazine
Arrived at the Bitter Lakes, the Ain el Ambak — the waters of which are plentiful but bitter — gives life to sundry tamarisk bushes and saline plants, and around it are tents and buildings, more advanced guards of the great enterprise. As to the ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1865
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the new monthly magazine
Arrived at the Bitter Lakes, the Ain el Ambak — the waters of which are plentiful but bitter — gives life to sundry tamarisk bushes and saline plants, and around it are tents and buildings, more advanced guards of the great enterprise. As to the ...
william harrison ainsworth, 1865
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The New Monthly Magazine
Arrived at the Bitter Lakes, the Ain el Ambak—the waters of which are plentiful but bitter—gives life to sundry tamarisk bushes and saline plants, and around it are tents and buildings, more advanced guards of the great enterprise. As to the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BITTER LAKES»

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Roswell's alien invasion: UFO Festival fun for all
The nearby Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, 4065 Bitter Lakes Road, is a mixture of grasslands and marsh, said Steve Alvarez, a public ... «Albuquerque Journal, Jun 15»
2
Inchcape Shipping Services: Current convoy information ahead of …
... to 95 kilometres in length, while the project also involves deepening and widening the Great Bitter Lakes and Ballah bypass to a total length of 37 kilometres. «Your Shipbuilding News, Jun 15»
3
The New Suez Canal: An ideal project and gateway to the future
A deepening operation for 37 kilometres was added in the Bitter Lakes area to allow ships with large drafts to pass in both directions of the ... «Ahram Online, Jun 15»
4
No way for fish
This was due to a natural barrier, the so-called Bitter Lakes, a former salt pan. The lakes, though, no longer draw enough extra salinity from the ... «The Economist, May 15»
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RAF pilot Sid Cleaver: I saw the Spitfires and thought 'wow'
“I was in Cairo in 1944 at Fayed Air Base's Operational Training Unit, near the Bitter Lakes, at the start of my advanced flying course when I first ... «Birmingham Post, Mar 15»
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Egypt embarks on expanding the Suez Canal
The new canal will expand from 60km to 95km, in addition to deepening and widening of the Great Bitter Lakes by-passes and Ballah by-pass, ... «New Vision, Mar 15»
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Egyptian Ambassador in Kinshasa meets economy minister
Mahlab chairs meeting to discuss stopping drainage into Bitter Lakes · Court orders retrial of Mubarak over killing protesters ... «Egypt SIS, Mar 15»
8
Bitter Lakes – 'McJihad' by US and Saudi Arabia
There are two bitter Lakes in "Bitter Lake": The first one is roughly the midpoint of the Suez Canal, where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... «MWC News, Feb 15»
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Parish pump Newhaven – February 27, 2015
... time of the Exodus that the Red Sea was continuous up to Ismailia, and Lake Timsah and the Bitter Lakes were connected by shallow water. «Sussex Express, Feb 15»
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Digging up Augustine Volcano's top-heavy legacy
... on closed basins like Devils Lake ND or Waubay/Bitter Lakes SD. VEI=3+ eruptions go up... water levels go up... go down... water goes down. «Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Jan 15»

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