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PRONUNCIATION OF SWALLOW HOLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWALLOW HOLE

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Swallow hole is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SWALLOW HOLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

swallow hole

Sinkhole

There are a large variety of depressions in the earths surface that have been labeled or described as a sinkhole. Further there is an assortment of names for these features, depending on the culture and language of the country where they have been described. Frequently in North America the term "sinkhole" is used to mean any hype of depression in the ground surface, regardless of its morphology or origin. A sinkhole, also known as a sink-hole, sink, swallow hole, shakehole, swallet or doline, is a naturally occurring depression or hole in the ground caused by gradual lowering of the surface material, or the instantaneous collapse of the surface layer, into conduits or caves developed in the underlying soluble rock. The depression can almost always be circumscribed by a closed topographic contour and are internally drained. Most are caused by karst processes—for example, the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks or suffosion processes. Sinkholes may vary in size from 1 to 600 m both in diameter and depth, and vary in form from soil-lined bowls to bedrock-edged chasms.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWALLOW HOLE

swain
swaining
swainish
swainishness
swale
Swaledale
SWALK
swallet
swallow
swallow dive
swallow one´s words
swallow-like
swallow-tailed
swallow-tailed coat
swallowable
swallower
swallowtail
swallowtail butterfly
swallowwort
swam

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWALLOW HOLE

air hole
black hole
bolt hole
bullet hole
cat hole
coal hole
doughnut hole
dry hole
funk hole
glory hole
in the hole
kettle hole
nineteenth hole
on the whole
ozone hole
rabbit hole
shot hole
sound hole
spider hole
water hole
watering hole

Synonyms and antonyms of swallow hole in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «swallow hole» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SWALLOW HOLE

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

Translator English - Chinese

洞吞下
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tragar agujero
570 millions of speakers

English

swallow hole
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छेद निगल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ابتلاع حفرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

проглотить отверстие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

engolir buraco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গেলা গর্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avaler trou
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menelan lubang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlucken Loch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

穴を飲み込む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구멍을 삼키는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngulu bolongan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nuốt lỗ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துளை விழுங்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गिळण्याची भोक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yutmak delik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingoiare foro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

połknąć dziurę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

проковтнути отвір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înghiți gaură
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταπιεί τρύπα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sluk gat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svälja hål
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svelge hull
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of swallow hole

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SWALLOW HOLE»

The term «swallow hole» is used very little and occupies the 178.535 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SWALLOW HOLE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWALLOW HOLE»

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Foundation pupil's book
Limestone pavements These are bare rock outcrops. The flat tops are called c// nts. The gaps between the blocks are grykes. Look back at the example in photograph B on page 88. Swallow hole A swallow hole is a large hole on the surface, ...
Ann Bowen, John Pallister, 2004
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Water and Urban Development Paradigms: Towards an ...
3.3 Concentration of flow map The concentration of flow map is created for all areas that fall into Scenario 1 areas (swallow hole recharge areas) and Scenario 2 areas (remaining areas characterized by karstic surface lithologies). In Scenario ...
Jan Feyen, Kelly Shannon, Matthew Neville, 2008
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Groundwater Hydrology of Springs: Engineering, Theory, ...
On Cerkniško polje, uranine was injected into the Vodonos swallow hole (6.16), which drains water to Bistra (1.1), Lubija (1.2), and Ljubljanica springs (1.3 and 1.4), due to an unknown common runoff at the bottom of the intermittent lake.
Neven Kresic, Zoran Stevanovic, 2009
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Tracer Hydrology 97
The first tracer tests performed in the Joeu system were focused on the Aigualluts swallow hole (Table 2). At the end of the XVIII century the fate of the large volume of water drained through this swallow hole was already a subject of debate.
A. Kranjc, 1997
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Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping: ...
Table 3. Examples of vulnerability assessment in the study area. Concentrated infiltration Diffuse infiltration (Case A1: vulnerability from concentrated infiltration of surface water in a swallow hole when the karst system is entirely located within  ...
Andrzej J. Witkowski, Andrzej Kowalczyk, Jaroslav Vrba, 2007
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Groundwater Pollution, Aquifer Recharge and Vulnerability
One of the best-known sites of swallow-hole activity in the Chalk is at Water End in Hertfordshire, where the Mimmshall Brook, a headwater of the River Colne. disappears at certain times of the year into a swallow-hole complex. The swallow  ...
N. S. Robins, 1998
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Physical Geography: Hydrosphere
(2) Blind valley refers to the valley of that surface stream which disappears in limestone formation through a swallow hole or sink hole. In other words, that valley is called blind valley the flow of which terminates at a swallow hole and the valley ...
K. Bharatdwaj, 2006
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Contributions to the Geology of Belgium and Northwest ...
Swallow holes of the Wamme river at On. 3 First swallow hole of the Lomme river at Jemelle. 4. "Pre-au-Tonneau" Cave (swallow hole). 5 Position of the important swallow hole "Nou Maulin " and the Lorette Cave. 6. Swallow hole. 7. Eprave ...
Patrick Degryse, Manuel Sintubin, 2002
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Understanding GCSE Geography: A For AQA Specification
When many limestone landforms Swallow hole Limestone pavement n Figure 1 The swallow hole at Gaping Gill. Fell Beck is the surface stream seen disappearing underground. It drops 110m as a waterfall into a giant chamber more than ...
Ann Bowen, John Pallister, 2006
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Hydrogeologic characteristics of four public drinking-water ...
10) detected detection (miles) day) 1 Sinkhole Optical brightener 1/10/02 None -- -- -- -- 2 Swallow hole Eosine OJ 1/10/02 ... 1/16/02 5 2.1 0.42 4 Swallow hole Rhodamine WT 1/11/02 None -- -- -- -- 5 Swallow hole Rhodamine WT 5/24/02 S5 ...

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWALLOW HOLE»

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Swallow hole in Welwyn Garden City 'leaves sewer exposed'
Hertfordshire Highways, the county council's roads department, tweeted: “Applecroft Road, Welwyn Garden City closed due to a swallow hole in the carriageway ... «Times 24, Sep 13»

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