(n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
(n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
(n.) The neck or throat
(n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton.
Example Sentences:
(1) OS Map: Explorer 171 Chiltern Hills West and Explorer 172 Chiltern Hills East Arthur's Seat Edinburgh Salisbury Crags and Edinburgh's skyline from Arthur's Seat.
(2) Continue straight on at two roundabouts from where the pavement makes its way alongside Salisbury Crags to reach an obvious grassy path.
(3) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(4) Edinburgh’s skyline is dominated by Castle Rock, Calton Hill nearby, the dramatic volcanic remnants of Arthur’s Seat and the cliffs of Salisbury Crags , but festival events rarely focus on the city’s geological history.
(5) Why it's special For the painter John Ruskin, Keswick was almost too beautiful to live in; while the view from Friar's Crag was one of the three loveliest in Europe.
(6) Overall, anastomotic leak rates and death rates were lower in the CRAG group, and the lowest incidence of anastomotic leak was reported in the patients receiving CEA.
(7) Comparison of the P1 enzyme with the inducible P2 alkylsulphatase of this organism, and with the Crag herbicide sulphatase of Pseudomonas putida, showed that, although there are certain similarities between any two of the three enzymes, very few properties are common to all three.
(8) An unusual case of sustained electrocerebral silence on electroencephalogram (EEG) in a three-year-old retarded comatosed child with preserved intracerebral perfusion documented by a series of cerebral radionuclide angiograms (CRAG) is presented.
(9) Superb paths also run around the rim of Salisbury Crags (where a little care should be taken) and once the ascent of Arthur's Seat is accomplished, the hard work is done for the day and it is a simple matter of following a pavement through Holyrood Park back to the start.
(10) Both Sharp Edge and adjoining Foule Crag could be taken in from a vantage point near Troutbeck, rated by mountaineer Doug Scott as his favourite view.
(11) As grim as a gargoyle, craggy as a crag, jaw set in steel – even the famous smirk was well hidden behind the scowl.
(12) The stony way climbs steeply through the crags, wanders across an airy summit not far below the clouds, and then dips down in leisured zigzags to the edge of the world.
(13) Huge crags of fossil-rich red rock jut forth towards the sea to form private coves and slips of sand.
(14) The path from Keswick to the Crag is wheelchair- and pushchair-friendly.
(15) The CRAG helped detect subdural fluid collections, cerebrovascular disease, and cerebral cysts, but it was of little value in detecting hydrocephalus.
(16) Lovely as it is, on a sunny summer's day Plockton can start to feel crowded and there's nothing like this hike to the summit of the crags which loom over the village to blow the cobwebs from your hair, taking in the view of the village and its stunning coastal setting.
(17) Operations were performed upon patients anesthetized with either combined regional (epidural) and general anesthesia (CRAG) or general anesthesia alone (GA).
(18) Friar's Crag will have a special significance for fans of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons.
(19) Bear left from Queen's Drive and follow the path as it climbs gradually underneath Salisbury Crags until it joins a red gravel path.
(20) For maximum diagnostic yield, a CRAG should be performed with all pediatric brain-imaging studies.
Outcrop
Definition:
(n.) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.
(n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.
(v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(2) A rocky outcrop on the edge of the continent, now called the Point Lobos state reserve, it is a beautifully elemental place that remains much as it was in Weston's time.
(3) Both Bishop and Shorten said operational details of freedom-of-navigation exercises were a matter for the military, and did not call for such operations within 12 nautical miles of Chinese rock outcrops or artificial islands.
(4) • enjoythecoast.it Plage de Bon Secours, Saint-Malo, France Facebook Twitter Pinterest On calm days, there is a striking contrast between the mirror-like surface of Saint-Malo sea pool and the ruffled sea beyond, between the order of its geometric walls and the random rocky outcrops behind them.
(5) So that’s what I did: I decided that this would no longer be just a rocky outcrop on the port of Funchal, it would be my island, about the size of a one-bedroom house.
(6) His destination was the large outcrop of copper-bearing strata in the mountains above the village of Mes Aynak.
(7) This rocky outcrop sees hundreds of visitors daily, in good weather and bad, and thousands of swimmers on Christmas Day.
(8) Stretching north of Punta del Este, the landscape and atmosphere of the Uruguayan coast changes swiftly and dramatically - huge swathes of empty beach, boutique hideaways on isolated outcrops, candlelit hippie towns and tiny fishing villages.
(9) It is one of the rocky outcrops overlooking the bucolic valley of Qunu, where South Africa's first black president grew up and which, at 93, he still calls home.
(10) At its margin abutting the central fibrous body the atrioventricular (A-V) node exhibited numerous fronds and outcroppings, some forming loop connections from one part of A-V node to another.
(11) The three-mile loop overlooks the blue-tinged fossil-rich outcrop where many of John Day’s fossils have been found.
(12) But new research about to be published suggests that over the decades they may have been chipping away at the wrong rocky outcrop on the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire .
(13) Plans to build the UK's first geothermal plant that would use heat from granite outcrops beneath the Earth's surface to power a small town were unveiled today.
(14) They made it clear that these “motherfucker refugees” were not welcome on the charmless rocky outcrop.
(15) In north-east Corsica, asbestos outcrops are a source of environmental pollution, as assessed by airborne concentrations of chrysotile and tremolite that are significantly higher in the north-east than the north-west.
(16) Known in China as the Diaoyu Islands, this small collection of islets and rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea has lain outside of direct Chinese control since 1895.
(17) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(18) Dunvegan Castle and Gardens Clinging to a rocky outcrop, Dunvegan Castle has been the MacLeod stronghold for eight centuries.
(19) On the other side, the vegetation opened up again and the slope led down towards a small outcrop wreathed with pine trees.
(20) Calm and controlled, he stood on an outcrop barely 7m from where I was standing, his gaze locked on the swimmers.