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PRONUNCIATION OF CONTINENTAL GLACIER

continental glacier  [ˌkɒntɪˈnɛntəl ˈɡlæsɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONTINENTAL GLACIER

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Continental glacier is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONTINENTAL GLACIER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

continental glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. Glaciers slowly deform and flow due to stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features. They also abrade rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such as cirques and moraines. Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water. On Earth, 99% of glacial ice is contained within vast ice sheets in the polar regions, but glaciers may be found in mountain ranges on every continent except Australia, and on a few high-latitude oceanic islands. Between 35°N and 35°S, glaciers occur only in the Himalayas, Andes, Rocky Mountains, a few high mountains in East Africa, Mexico, New Guinea and on Zard Kuh in Iran. Glacial ice is the largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth.

Definition of continental glacier in the English dictionary

The definition of continental glacier in the dictionary is a glacier that spreads out from a central mass.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONTINENTAL GLACIER


alexia
əˈlɛksɪə
anorexia
ˌænɒˈrɛksɪə
brassiere
ˈbræsɪə
brugmansia
brʊɡˈmænsɪə
cassia
ˈkæsɪə
cere
sɪə
Circassia
sɜːˈkæsɪə
cire
ˈsɪə
Dacia
ˈdeɪsɪə
estancia
ɪˈstænsɪə
financier
fɪˈnænsɪə
gassier
ˈɡæsɪə
glacier
ˈɡlæsɪə
Khakassia
kəˈkæsɪə
sear
sɪə
seer
sɪə
ser
sɪə
sere
sɪə
sexier
ˈseksɪə
sincere
sɪnˈsɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONTINENTAL GLACIER

continence
continency
continent
Continental
continental breakfast
continental climate
Continental Congress
continental crust
continental divide
continental drift
continental quilt
continental shelf
continental shield
Continental System
continentalism
Continentalist
continentally
continently
contingence
contingencies

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONTINENTAL GLACIER

alpine glacier
bird fancier
bouncier
conferencier
dancier
dicier
epicier
fancier
hanging glacier
icier
juicier
lacier
Muir Glacier
pacier
pigeon fancier
pricier
racier
saucier
spacier
spicier

Synonyms and antonyms of continental glacier in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «continental glacier» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONTINENTAL GLACIER

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

Translator English - Chinese

大陆冰川
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

glaciar continental
570 millions of speakers

English

continental glacier
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महाद्वीपीय ग्लेशियर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأنهار الجليدية القارية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

материковый ледник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

geleira continental
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মহাদেশীয় হিমবাহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

glacier continental
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Glasier kontinental
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kontinentalen Gletscher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大陸氷河
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대륙 빙하
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Glasier kontinental
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sông băng lục địa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கண்டம் பனியாறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉन्टिनेन्टल ग्लेशियर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kıta buzulu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ghiacciaio continentale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lądolód
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

материковий льодовик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ghețar continental
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηπειρωτικό παγετώνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kontinentale Glacier
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inlandsisen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fastlandsbre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of continental glacier

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTINENTAL GLACIER»

The term «continental glacier» is used very little and occupies the 182.426 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTINENTAL GLACIER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about continental glacier

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTINENTAL GLACIER»

Discover the use of continental glacier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to continental glacier and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Imprint of Continental-glacier Erosion Over Space and Time: ...
The erosion patterns reported here are the first to demonstrate the long-term, relatively minor, erosive effects of the Laurentide ice sheet margin.
Alexander Knox Stewart, 2007
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Glaciers of California: Modern Glaciers, Ice Age Glaciers, ...
THE NORTHERN ICE SHEET Recognition that there once had been a great continental glacier in North America began in 1841 in Massachusetts. It was soon recognized that during the Ice Age an enormous glacier covered much of Canada ...
Bill Guyton, 1998
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Physical Geography: Hydrosphere
The Antarctic continental glacier having an average thickness of 4000m covers an area of 8 million square kilometres. The ice sheets rise about 4500m above mean sea level. The Greeland continental glacier with the thickness of 3000 m at its ...
K. Bharatdwaj, 2006
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Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review: A Journal of University ...
Gletscherk., XXII, 1-19, 5 figs., 1935; The glacial anticyclones, Memoires presente a V Association de Meteorologie de U.G.G.I., Lisbonne, 1933, Paris, i-li, 6 figs., 1935; The morphology of the Greenland continental glacier, Comptes Rendus, ...
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Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 4475
Examples of the effect of high uplift pressures generated in the subsurface in proximity to the front of a continental glacier are given by Christiansen et al. ( I 982) in their explanation for the formation of Howe Lake in southeast Saskatchewan as ...
Scott, J S
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GLACIAL LANDSYSTEMS
CHAPTER ICE-MARGINAL TERRESTRIAL LANDSYSTEMS: POLAR CONTINENTAL GLACIER MARGINS Sean I. Fitzsimons 5. I INTRODUCTION Research on landform and sediment assemblages formed by glaciers is dominated by studies ...
David Evans, Liz Gooster, 2014
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From Grassland to Rockland: An Explorer's Guide to the ...
As the continental glacier grew, it pushed its way toward the south and west, carrying with it a huge load of broken and crushed rock plucked from the surface of the Canadian Shield almost 1000 km away. Eventually, the progress of the great ...
Peter Douglas Elias, 1999
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Piling, European Practice and Worldwide Trends: Proceedings ...
... Finland, Norway and Sweden. During the glacial period, these countries were covered by a continental glacier with a thickness of 2 to 3 kilometres. At its maximum extent, the southern limit stretched across Denmark and northern Germany, ...
M. J. Sands, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), 1992
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Earth Science and the Environment
Erosional Landforms Created by a Continental Glacier A continental glacier erodes the landscape just as an alpine glacier does. However, a continental glacier is consider— Basin formed by glacial weathering and erosion Exposed rocks ...
Graham Thompson, Jon Turk, 2006
10
The Nature of Cape Cod
The edges of a growing continental glacier eventually reach either the ocean or warm weather. Where the glacier moves out into the ocean, it progressively breaks up into icebergs that float away, dropping their loads of rock debris onto the ...
Beth Schwarzman, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONTINENTAL GLACIER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term continental glacier is used in the context of the following news items.
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101 things to do in Montana
Benton Lake was created thousands of years ago by the continental glacier, and the area was excluded from homesteading in 1885 in order to ... «Great Falls Tribune, Jun 15»
2
Guaranteed for life
They started to flow after the Pre-Illinoian Continental Glacier, that covered this region with ice, had melted and retreated. The water from the ... «La Crosse Tribune, May 15»
3
POINT OF VIEW: Climate is ever-changing; focus on what we can …
Only 10,000 years ago, a continental glacier covered the northern portion of North America; an Arctic ice cap extended from the North Pole to ... «Palm Beach Post, May 15»
4
SEABURY BLAIR JR. | Black bears breaking bad in Olympic …
The first time I visited Mount Olympus, back when the Blue Glacier was still part of the Continental Glacier, a bear was occupying many of the ... «Kitsap Sun, May 15»
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BNSF Freight Train Carrying Crude Oil Derails Near Illinois City
... region prized in the largely flat Midwest for its high bluffs, karst limestone and steep ravines that escaped the last continental glacier. It is also ... «Flathead Beacon, Mar 15»
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It's a trap! Natural Trap Cave spurs scientific study of the ancient world
The last continental glacier petered out about 10,000 years ago, but there were no glaciers in the vicinity of the cave. There was more ... «Powell Tribune, Dec 14»
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Will Greenland's ice sheet slide into the sea?
Their findings, published Monday in Nature Communications, suggest that not only is the continental glacier vulnerable to the warming climate, ... «Christian Science Monitor, Sep 14»
8
RP Outdoors: Lepham Park
... to Potawatomi State Park on Lake Michigan, the Ice Age Trail winds for more than 1,000 miles, following the edge of the last continental glacier in Wisconsin.”. «Royal Purple News, Sep 14»
9
Need for space, cremations fueled plans for mausoleum
... Washington County Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Glacier Memorial, a boulder reportedly carried by the Great Continental Glacier from ... «Washington Observer Reporter, May 14»
10
Picking rocks can take longer than planting
Dodge County Minnesota is right at the limit of the Continental Glacier from the most recent Ice Age over 10,000 years ago, says Minnesota ... «Corn and Soybean Digest, May 14»

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