What's the difference between crag and ravine?

Crag


Definition:

  • (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.

Ravine


Definition:

  • (n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
  • (v. t. & i.) See Raven, v. t. & i.
  • (n.) A torrent of water.
  • (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Winning tip: Hackfall Wood, North Yorkshire Hackfall Wood is deep in a ravine with a churning river at the bottom.
  • (2) In Sleipner and Snohvit, Statoil built two gas plants which funnelled high content CO2 into a sub-sea ravine.
  • (3) A variety of cartilage lesions was encountered: macroscopically apparent ' parallel linear' minimal fibrillation; other patterns of minimal fibrillation; 'ravines'; overt fibrillation; localized incomplete defects of the cartilage; and full-thickness cartilage loss with bone exposure.
  • (4) His sighting would be just one of several things to go wrong at Chavez Ravine tonight.
  • (5) Lower in altitude than the better-known Tatras to the north-east, it has rock towers, needles, windows and gates separated by deep waterless gorges and ravines.
  • (6) This origin is associated with an opening of the earth as is illustrated in the earthquakes or the volcanic eruptions forming the prototype of a fright experience leading to espanto; or, it is attributed to agents who inhabit locations where the earth presents a fissure (river, ravine, cave).
  • (7) Dennis Eckersley was on the hill for the Oakland A's against Gibson's Los Angeles Dodgers in Game One of the 1988 World Series at Chavez Ravine.
  • (8) The Botanic Gardens , though largely outdoors, are home to the Palm House and the Tropical Ravine, two large buildings filled with rare and extraordinary plants.
  • (9) In some instances the general articular surface developed superficial fissures, deep ravines, and foci of fibrillation.
  • (10) The Dodgers are within a victory of tying this NLCS at 2-2 after an enormous victory at Chavez Ravine tonight!
  • (11) When he was killed, in a firefight at twilight in an Afghan ravine, the White House called him an "inspiration".
  • (12) Founded in 1996, the movement’s aim is the creation of an Islamic government in the Ferghana Valley, a ravine running between Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
  • (13) More than 15,000 refugees have fled the area for Arsal over the past week as Assad loyalists attempt to clear opposition groups, backed by global jihadists, from mountains and ravines standing between Damascus and a contiguous link to Homs to the north-west.
  • (14) Jang was quoted as saying that his corps would annihilate its enemies and "turn each ravine into their death pitfall when the hour of decisive battle comes".
  • (15) When news emerged that people were dying from hunger and thirst, and teenage girls were jumping to their deaths down ravines to avoid rape or capture, Dakhil stood up in Iraq’s parliament to beg for intervention.
  • (16) On the edge of a steep ravine, the small museum will draw fans of architecture, as well as general tourists, when it opens in September.
  • (17) Twenty years ago, the journey was as much as an eight-hour drive, depending on the rains and on whether, as seemed to happen most days, a bus or lorry was stuck in the deep muddy ravines that opened up on what could only be loosely described as a road.
  • (18) The Dodgers could do something, anything, with their giant pool of money – I'm sure they could even find a way to lure Babe Ruth out of retirement, such are the funds over at Chavez Ravine.
  • (19) On the basis of clinico-genealogical investigation of the population of some small villages in the ravine Bartang--the isolate in high-montane region--the following indices of frequency of some psychiatric disorders were determined: olygophrenia--3,96; epilepsy--5,09; schizophrenia--6,78 for a 1000 of population.
  • (20) At the later stage the contact sites extended to the bottom of the ravine formed by the two nasal processes, where the superficial cells always seemed to bridge the area between the nasal processes.