Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A portion of bedrock or other stratum protruding through the soil level.
- intransitive verb To protrude above the soil, as rock formations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To crop out or up; specifically, in geology, to come out to the surface of the ground: said of strata.
- noun The appearing at the surface of a stratum or series of strata, or of a vein or ore-deposit of any kind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Geol.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.
- noun The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.
- noun That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of
land that stands out (usually into water) from the landsurrounding . - noun A
coming out ofbedrock or of an unconsolidateddeposit to thesurface of theground . - noun The
part of arock formation that appears at thesurface of theground . - verb geology To come out to the surface of the ground.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground
- noun the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In any event, the outcrop is hidden, and it seems remarkable how much it is hidden.
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Right under the outcrop was a fl at, sheltered bit where someone could have stood.
Death of a Scriptwriter Beaton, M. C. 1998
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When the outcrop is the pure red sandstone, we can hope for little else but the desert spinifex.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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Residents of the tiny volcanic outcrop, which is inhabited by descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers, have signed up to a three-year voluntary scheme which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and obesity.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The part of a reef showing above the surface is the "outcrop," which may appear either as a mass or "blow" of quartz, sometimes sixty feet in height, or as a solid wall or dyke which can be followed for perhaps five miles without a break; the direction in which it runs is known as its "strike."
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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With quartz "outcrop" that lay atop, now leveled to its edge,
Complete Poetical Works Bret Harte 1869
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He was on a thickly wooded terrace with a blank wall of "outcrop" on one side nearly as high as the pines which pressed close against it.
Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869
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I can possibly blame my cross-lateralism for getting left and right mixed up, but definitely not for the use of the word 'outcrop' when I actually meant 'islet'.
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I can possibly blame my cross-lateralism for getting left and right mixed up, but definitely not for the use of the word 'outcrop' when I actually meant 'islet'.
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I can possibly blame my cross-lateralism for getting left and right mixed up, but definitely not for the use of the word 'outcrop' when I actually meant 'islet'.
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