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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VARVE

From Swedish varv layer, from varva, from Old Norse hverfa to turn.
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PRONUNCIATION OF VARVE

varve  [vɑːv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VARVE

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Varve is a noun.
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WHAT DOES VARVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Varve

A varve is an annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. The word 'varve' is derived from the Swedish word varv whose meanings and connotations include 'revolution', 'in layers', and 'circle'. The term first appeared as Hvarfig lera on the first map produced by the Geological Survey of Sweden in 1862. Initially, varve was used to describe the separate components of annual layers in glacial lake sediments, but at the 1910 Geological Congress, the Swedish geologist Gerard De Geer proposed a new formal definition where varve described the whole of any annual sedimentary layer. More recently introduced terms such as 'annually laminated' are synonymous with varve. Of the many rhythmites found in the geological record, varves are one of the most important and illuminating to studies of past climate change. Varves are amongst the smallest-scale events recognised in stratigraphy. An annual layer can be highly visible because the particles washed into the layer in the spring when there is greater flow strength are much coarser than those deposited later in the year. This forms a pair of layers—one coarse and one fine—for each annual cycle.

Definition of varve in the English dictionary

The definition of varve in the dictionary is a typically thin band of sediment deposited annually in glacial lakes, consisting of a light layer and a dark layer deposited at different seasons. Other definition of varve is either of the layers of sediment making up this band.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VARVE


Algarve
ælˈɡɑːv
calve
kɑːv
carve
kɑːv
Graves
ɡrɑːv
halve
hɑːv
Jugoslav
ˈjuːɡəʊˌslɑːv
MARV
mɑːv
ollamh
ˈɒlɑːv
schav
ʃɑːv
Slav
slɑːv
starve
stɑːv
suave
swɑːv
tav
tɑːv
vaw
vɑːv
Yugoslav
ˈjuːɡəʊˌslɑːv
Zouave
zuːˈɑːv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VARVE

varnishing
varnishing day
varnishy
Varro
varroa
varsal
varsities
varsity
varsity match
varsity sports
varsovienne
vartabed
Varuna
varus
varved
varvel
varvelled
vary
varying
varyingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE VARVE

ahead of the curve
behind the curve
central reserve
conserve
curve
deserve
growth curve
Indian reserve
learning curve
nature reserve
nerve
observe
parve
preserve
reserve
serve
swerve
the Algarve
verve
wharve

Synonyms and antonyms of varve in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «varve» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VARVE

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纹层
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varva
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varve
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varve
380 millions of speakers
ar

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varve
280 millions of speakers

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varve
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

várvicas
270 millions of speakers

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varve
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Translator English - French

varve
220 millions of speakers

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Varve
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varve
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Translator English - Japanese

年層
130 millions of speakers

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년층
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Varve
85 millions of speakers
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varve
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

varve
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

varv
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

varve
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

varve
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

varve
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

varve
30 millions of speakers
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varve
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

varve
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

varve
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

varve
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of varve

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VARVE»

The term «varve» is normally little used and occupies the 126.081 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VARVE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VARVE»

Discover the use of varve in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to varve and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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System and Algorithm Design for Varve Image Analysis System
This dissertation describes the design and implementation of a computer vision based varve image analysis system.
Zhijun He, 2007
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The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology
Additionally, varve chronology can be a powerful tool to determine the time lag between archaeological events in two distant places, if two varve sequences from different regions are successfully correlated using abrupt and widespread events  ...
Francesco Menotti, Aidan O'Sullivan, 2013
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Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology: Part II: ...
1951) also assembled long varve sequences in Canada. The six American sequences (Fig. 3) represent the measurement and compilation of varve records from many different exposures and glacial lakes into averaged or normalised ...
J. Ehlers, P.L. Gibbard, 2004
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Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments
Varve Organic lamina Autochthonous source Minerogenic lamina Allochthonous source Primary production Rate of catchment erosion and transportation into the lake Spring/summer/autumn temperature Intensity of spring snow- Sensitivity of ...
Vivien Gornitz, 2009
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Elk Lake, Minnesota: Evidence for Rapid Climate Change in ...
Climatic variability recorded in the modern lake Controls on varve thickness. Variability in the thickness of varves that accumulated in the modern, iron- enriched lake originates with major components that contributed to varve thickness in four ...
J. Piatt Bradbury, Walter E. Dean, 1993
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Rock Solid Answers: The Biblical Truth Behind 14 Geologic ...
Later, a long "varve" chronology was set up in New England and southeast Canada by De Geer's student Ernst Antevs. Traveling up the Connecticut Valley in New England, Antevs was able to correlate sequences to reach a total of 4,400  ...
Mike Oard, John K. Reed, 2009
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Deglacial History and Relative Sea-level Changes, Northern ...
We first review and update the pertinent parts of the New England varve chronology (Antevs, 1922, 1928) and its relationship to deglaciation. A much more detailed review of the New England varve chronology in northern New England was ...
Thomas K. Weddle, Michael J. Retelle, 2001
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Quantifying Climate Variability During the Past Two Thousand ...
Varve thickness and climate Significant correlations with climate have been established for varve thickness records throughout the eastern Canadian Arctic ( e.g. Hughen et al. 2000; Lamoureux and Gilbert 2004). In some cases, varve ...
Elizabeth K. Thomas, 2008
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Quaternary Dating Methods
4. _. l.:..,l,.-|-..l~r~:+.-4firj_r._rw. T4 ...|. rape-44442.;. 14000 13000120001100010600 9000 8603 7000 6000 5030 4C0) 3000 2000 7000 0 Time (varve years L11'). 5.3.3.4. Varve. sequences. and. the. radiocarbon. timescale. We have already ...
Mike Walker, 2013
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Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals): ...
As with tree rings, errors may arise in a chronology based on varve counting, through occasional missing varves in poor years for deposition, occasional double (or even triple) varves in other years and mistakes in cross-correlating varve ...
H. H. Lamb, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VARVE»

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Arrests help cops solve thefts where Rs 56 lakh looted
Sule manages a petrol pump at Kelawade and Bandal is the manager of a petrol pump at Varve. Both suffered severe injuries in the robbery. The managers ... «Pune Mirror, Jul 15»
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FDA seizes gutka and machinery worth over 3L
"The manufacturing unit is located on the outskirts of village Varve khurd in Bhor taluka. It used to operate at night. Residents did not notice anything as the ... «Times of India, May 15»
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L'étudiant au doctorat François Lapointe remporte un prix pour une …
Son affiche s'intitulait « Strong climate signals revealed by high-resolution analysis of varves from South Sawtooth Lake » (« Découvertes de signaux ... «Université du Québec, Mar 15»
4
Two petrol pump managers robbed of Rs 50 lakh in Katraj ghat
Suke, who manages a petrol pump at Kelawade and Bandal, who is the manager of a petrol pump at Varve, suffered severe injuries and are being treated at a ... «Times of India, Oct 14»
5
Women On Water: Love on the Shores of the Sleeping Bear Dunes
We fell in love talking about what sifted out to drift and settle into the varve at the bottom of the lake. A year later, in late August, on a dune overlooking the place ... «MyNorth.com, Aug 14»
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Volcanic Ash Reveals Abrupt Ice Age Climate Change
Synchronization of two high-resolution continental records, using the Vedde Ash layer (12,140 ± 40 varve yr B.P.), allows us to trace the shifting of the polar front ... «reportingclimatescience.com, Dec 13»
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FOTOD: Vaata, millised on Kohila valla tänavused kaunimad kodud
Silmapaistvalt eeskujulik tarbeaed - Varve kinnistu, Angerja küla - Valentina Kullerkupp ja Viktor Hramtsov. Parim renoveerimine - Tõnnu kinnistu - Ave ja Vaido ... «Delfi, Oct 13»
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A New Radiocarbon Yardstick from Japan
They found that the top part of this sedimentary record consisted of thin annual layers—varves—representing about 60,000 years of time. Varves are close to the ... «KQED QUEST, Oct 12»
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Grand Solar Minima do bring cooling to Europe Holocene record …
“We find a sharp increase in windiness and cosmogenic 10Be deposition 2,759 ± 39 varve years before present and a reduction in both entities 199 ± 9 annual ... «Bits Of Science, May 12»
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Calotte polari in sincronia
Carotando sedimenti nel Mare di Weddel (il golfo che dà sull'oceano Atlantico, nell'Antartide), i ricercatori si sono imbattuti in una successione di varve, ossia ... «Galileo, Dec 11»

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