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(n)
A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
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An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
(firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
(botany) The throat of a flower.
A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
(geology, planetology) A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
(figurative) A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.
(v)
(transitive) To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
Any watercourse; any rivulet (whether it flows year-round or only seasonally).
A steep-sided gulch or arroyo; a canyon or ravine.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(informal) A level or degree.
A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
(chiefly poetic) A valley.
To change place.
Alternative spelling of canyon. [A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.]
(US, dialect) Synonym of ravine: a gully, a narrow (often small) canyon.
(British, military slang) A soldier.
Alternative form of box canyon. [A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.]
The side of a canyon, typically a residential one
A country in North America. Capital: Ottawa. Largest city: Toronto.
(geology) A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.
A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
A valley, often wooded and often with no river
(US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
(by extension) (ophthalmology, pathology) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.
A large cave.
(climbing, skiing) A steep gorge along a mountainside.
(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
(music) A set of panpipes.
An instance of squeezing.
A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
(architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
(biochemistry) A type of protein that is involved in forming the caveola of many vertebrate cells.
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight.
(anatomy, botany) A depression, channel, or groove.
(US, Canada) A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys.
(archaeology) A cliffside dwelling made in the living rock by humans.
(geology) In planetary geology, an irregular steep-sided depression that does not seem to be an impact crater.
(Northern England) A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
A dish prepared in such a mold.
The longitudinal profile of a glaciated valley that has several consecutive hanging valleys.
(geomorphology) A hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other.
A small creek.
(also attributively) Something (such as a canyon or road) with a sharp bend or turn in it.
The recreational sport of exploring caves.
A small canal, channel or duct
(geography) The highest cliff of a glacial cirque.
A cliff which drops down at a steep angle (also figurative and attributive).
A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
A road built on a ledge (cliff), especially along water (a river, sea, etc).
(uncountable or countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
(adj)
(informal, politics) Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
The act of something collapsing or caving in.
The mouth or entrance of a cave.
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
A little cave.
The act of making hollow.
The course occupied by a creek running through a landscape, including the immediate habitat on both sides.
An underground vault.
(anatomy) A recess or hollow.
A sequence of events.
(geology) A basal indent in a karst landscape caused by water
(volcanology) A large crater formed by collapse of the cone or edifice of a volcano.
The bank of a creek.
(Scotland) Low, fertile land; a river valley.
The amount that fits in a cave.
(architecture) A gutter in a roof.
The transportation of goods on a canal.
Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
(botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
(geology) A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
Obsolete form of cascade. [A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.]
(Latin America) A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.
The water of a creek.