ЭТИМОЛОГИЯ СЛОВА DESERT
From Old French, from Church Latin dēsertum, from Latin dēserere to abandon, literally: to sever one's links with, from de- + serere to bind together.
ЧТО ОЗНАЧАЕТ СЛОВО DESERT
пустынный
Пустыня - это бесплодная местность, где происходят небольшие осадки, и, следовательно, условия жизни враждебны для жизни растений и животных. Отсутствие растительности подвергает незащищенную поверхность почвы процессам денудации. Около трети наземной поверхности мира засушливые или полузасушливые. Это включает в себя большую часть полярных областей, где мало осадков и которые иногда называют «холодными пустынями». Пустыни можно классифицировать по количеству осадков, которое падает, по преобладающей температуре, по причинам опустынивания или по их географическому положению. Пустыни формируются процессами выветривания, так как большие изменения температуры между днем и ночью ставят штаммы на камни, которые, следовательно, разрушаются. Хотя дождь редко встречается в пустынях, иногда случаются ливни, которые могут привести к внезапным наводнениям. Дождь, падающий на горячие камни, может привести к их разрушению, а полученные фрагменты и щебень, разбросанные по полу пустыни, еще более разрушаются ветром. Это поднимает частицы песка и пыли и поднимает их вверх в песчаных или пыльных бурях.
Значение слова desert в словаре английский языка
Первое определение пустыни в словаре - это регион, который лишен или почти лишен растительности, особенно из-за низкого количества осадков. Другое определение пустыни - это необработанный необитаемый регион. Пустыня также является местом, в котором отсутствует какая-то желательная особенность или качество.
ЦИТАТЫ СО СЛОВОМ «DESERT»
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desert.
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
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Cadillac
Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Details the achievements of creating a desert civilization and projects on the future problems of limited groundwater reserves, silting up of reservoirs, and contamination of soil
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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the ...
Praise for TWILIGHT IN THE DESERT "This book is likely to be the most important ever written about oil." —The late Richard E. Smalley, PhD, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1996 Former University Professor, Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor ...
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
As the world continues its rapid development, Abbey's cry to maintain the natural beauty of the West remains just as relevant today as when this book was written.
Desert Flower will be published simultaneously in eleven languages throughout the world and is currently being produced as a feature film by Rocket Pictures UK.
Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller,
2009
Interspersed with the story of Nour is the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendent of the blue men, who lives in Morocco and tries to stay true to the blood of her ancestors while experiencing life as a modern immigrant.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio,
2009
"Explores desert biomes and covers where they are located as well as the plants and animals that inhabit them"--Provided by publisher.
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The Wisdom of the
Desert
The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit.
David Alloway's goal in this book is to help all of them survive when circumstances beyond their control strand them in the desert environment.
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A Natural History of the Sonoran
Desert
"This fine book offers one-stop shopping for authoritative answers to all your questions about a most wonderful place, the Sonoran Desert. Bees, birds, beetles, biodiversity, all right here in one place in accessible prose.
Steven J. Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus,
2000
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A Diamond in the
Desert
Twelve-year-old Tetsu eats, sleeps and breathes baseball.
Kathryn Fitzmaurice,
2012
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