Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a landmass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation has exceeded melting and sublimation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel for holding ice and cooling wine.
- noun The form in which the snow, falling on the higher parts of those mountain-ranges which are above the snow-line, finds its way down into the valleys.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
- noun (Geol.) the theory that large parts of the frigid and temperate zones were covered with ice during the
glacial , orice ,period , and that, by the agency of this ice, the loose materials on the earth's surface, calleddrift ordiluvium , were transported and accumulated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large body of
ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a slowly moving mass of ice
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A big risk of doing that is what they call glacier dust, which can make you quite sick, almost to same effects as like food poisoning.
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Hence the name glacier, which is derived from the Latin, glacies; French, glace, glacier.
Ice and Glaciers 1909
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Satellite and ice measurements show the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate, and mountain glacier melting is accelerating;
Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? - Part 2 2010
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Satellite and ice measurements show the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate, and mountain glacier melting is accelerating;
The latest science, summarized and assessed | Serendipity 2010
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Ancient ecosystem thrives millions of years below Antarctic glacier is a EurekAlert article describing the discovery of an Antarctic ecosystem.
An Unusual Ecosystem 2009
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Satellite and ice measurements show the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate, and mountain glacier melting is accelerating;
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Satellite and ice measurements show the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate, and mountain glacier melting is accelerating;
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Ancient ecosystem thrives millions of years below Antarctic glacier is a EurekAlert article describing the discovery of an Antarctic ecosystem.
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Up here as well, photos from glaciers 100yrs ago compared to now are overwhelming in how little of the glacier is left.
happy solstice 2005
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The forty-eight-acre lake at the center of Moraine Hills State Park formed when a large piece of ice broke away from the main glacier (Wisconsonian glaciation period) and melted.
Lake Defiance M-mv 2005
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