What's the difference between canyon and gorge?

Canyon


Definition:

  • (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (2) Mutants resistant to R 61837 (up to 85 times the MIC) were shown to bear some cross-resistance (up to 23 times the MIC) to the new compound, indicating that pirodavir also binds into the hydrophobic pocket beneath the canyon floor of rhinoviruses.
  • (3) Mariner 9 showed it possesses the solar system's largest mountain and its biggest canyon, while ancient riverbeds and streams were discovered at several sites, findings that have been confirmed and explored in far greater detail by subsequent probes and which continue to maintain hopes that we will one day find signs of life on another world.
  • (4) This 12-mile stretch of rapids enters a roadless zone of beautiful mountains and canyons.
  • (5) In this communication we describe the initial analysis of the complexity and polymorphism of sequences related to T-cell receptor (Tcr) alpha and beta chain genes in two subspecies, Sciurus aberti aberti (Abert) and Sciurus aberti kaibabensis (Kaibab) which have identical habitats and are separated by the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA.
  • (6) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
  • (7) Sequoia also boasts 4,421m Mount Whitney, the high point of the John Muir Trail, which runs through Sequoia and Kings Canyon on its way up to Yosemite.
  • (8) "The company that was responsible for the Torrey Canyon should be paying for it under the polluter-pays principle but the international laws weren't in place back then," says Roussel.
  • (9) The 90m-high Hells Canyon dam, built in 1967, is the largest privately owned hydroelectric power complex in the country.
  • (10) A well-preserved mummified child from about A.D. 1200 was recovered fron Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona in 1971.
  • (11) When I ask him how his background in geology is being used here, he tells me of his fieldwork at the Grand Canyon.
  • (12) Seroprevalence to Jamestown Canyon and snowshoe hare viruses was associated with increasing age.
  • (13) The virions of CE group viruses (CE, Jamestown Canyon, Keystone, LAC, Melao, SSH, TVT, TAH viruses and South River, an unregistered virus) have three major viral polypeptides, designated G1, G2, and N.
  • (14) But when the snow melts, Colorado’s perilous mountain passes, plains and canyons make the perfect setting for a road trip that takes in the best of the American landscape.
  • (15) Located just east of the more famous (and often overcrowded) Bryce Canyon, Kodachrome offers a quieter alternative.
  • (16) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.
  • (17) Fly to Salt Lake City airport Stay at One of the park campsites, from $10, or at Best Western Canyonlands Inn , from $160 Bob Gibbons and Siân Pritchard-Jones, authors, The Grand Canyon Guide (Cicerone, £14) Ancient dwellings of Mesa Verde NP , Colorado Mesa Verde (Spanish for green table), offers a spectacular look into the Pueblo people, who lived here from AD600 to AD1300.
  • (18) To visit the Grand Canyon, in north-west Arizona, choose between the more developed South Rim, which is open year-round, and has drive-up overlooks, museums and mule rides, or the more secluded North Rim, which is higher in elevation and closed to vehicles from mid-October until mid-May because of the snow (skiers and snowshoers are welcome).
  • (19) Those are garage doors from San Diego.” Garage doors are a popular material in this canyon.
  • (20) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.

Gorge


Definition:

  • (n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
  • (n.) A narrow passage or entrance
  • (n.) A defile between mountains.
  • (n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
  • (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
  • (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
  • (n.) The groove of a pulley.
  • (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • (n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • (v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (2) Media organisations gorge themselves, then spew out vast quantities of video, sound and copy.
  • (3) The northern part of the gorge is the only area of Abkhazia that has remained under Georgian government control.
  • (4) Psychiatric patients have an increased risk for choking compared with the general population because of risk factors such as medication side effects and food gorging.
  • (5) My plan had read: "Transfer by car from Salta to Purmamarca via the famous tourist attraction of Humahuaca Gorge, then take the bus across the Andes to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile."
  • (6) No indigenous community will be moved out of their land," he said, adding: "This is a very different project from other major projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam project, which was estimated to have relocated one million people."
  • (7) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
  • (8) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
  • (9) Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven’t panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy’s sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that’s been constructed so far doesn’t have any major weaknesses in it at all.
  • (10) We propose that binding of acetylcholine, on the surface of AChE, may trigger sequence of conformational changes extending from the peripheral anionic site through W286 to D74, at the entrance of the 'gorge', and down to the catalytic center (through Y341 to F338 and Y337).
  • (11) In June he and his team were looking at the steep hillsides around the village of Glogova, where remains had been tipped out of trucks and allowed to roll down a gorge.
  • (12) These data indicate a species difference exists between rats and mice during adaptation to a gorging food-intake pattern.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aerial view of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river, the biggest such project on earth.
  • (14) TonyRidge Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire Exploring the woodland at either side of the River Wharfe, where it flows through this spectacular, narrow gorge, is a splendid experience at any time of the year.
  • (15) In the knowledge that some of the biggest countries in world football – and some of the richest – were queueing up to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, football administrators around the world who had long gorged on the flow of Fifa cash were gearing up for a major payday.
  • (16) If he had been able to cross gorges and rivers without the need for ancient Egyptian conceits or even unadorned iron trusses, I think he would have leaped at the chance.
  • (17) As the trucks arrived at the edge of the gorge and tilted their beds back, Abu Abdullah watched in horror as the corpses of women and children began tumbling out.
  • (18) We want Squeaky Bum Time all the time - and if we don't get it we're going to sit howling in front of our flat-screen televisions, gorging ourselves on scratch cards, KFC popcorn chicken, superficial friendships, crack, two-minute microwave porridge and Ronseal super-quick-drying wood stain.
  • (19) A new partial skeleton of an adult hominid from lower Bed I (about 1.8 Myr ago), Olduvai Gorge, is described.
  • (20) Most of them scale Dome Rock, a big exfoliated granite monolith that offers 360-degree views of the mountain range, from the aforementioned Mount Whitney to the north to the Kern gorge (famous for its whitewater rafting) to the south.