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glacier
[ gley-sher ]
noun
- an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
glacier
/ ˈɡlæsɪə; ˈɡleɪs- /
noun
- a slowly moving mass of ice originating from an accumulation of snow. It can either spread out from a central mass ( continental glacier ) or descend from a high valley ( alpine glacier )
glacier
/ glā′shər /
- A large mass of ice moving very slowly through a valley or spreading outward from a center. Glaciers form over many years from packed snow in areas where snow accumulates faster than it melts. A glacier is always moving, but when its forward edge melts faster than the ice behind it advances, the glacier as a whole shrinks backward.
glacier
- A large mass of ice formed over many years that does not melt during the summer. Glaciers move slowly over an area of land such as a mountain valley.
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- glaciered adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glacier1
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Example Sentences
After 50 years, members of the Huna Tlingit people can finally collect harvest sea gull eggs again in Glacier National Park.
Peacock served as an expert witness on grizzlies in federal court for Glacier National Park.
“The first time I saw Glacier National Park, it was the magical fantasy land I had always been dreaming about,” says Chin.
The highest density of wolverines left south of Canada is in Glacier National Park.
A lieutenant commander in the Navy, he was knock-out handsome with a smile that would melt a glacier.
The effect of the intense ice action above noted is rapidly to wear away the rocks of the valley in which the glacier is situated.
A trace of this colour is often visible even in the surface snow on the glacier, and sometimes also in our ordinary winter fields.
Model a river valley whose upper part is filled with a glacier.
He will foller ye right up the side of a glacier, but he ain't mentally constructed to take the lead.
The mighty glacier seemed like a great river frozen into ice, hemmed in by the steep rocks.
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