(n.) A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
Example Sentences:
(1) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
(2) Sitting 2,325 metres above sea level, at the tip of an escarpment of the Great Rift Valley, Eritrea breeds strong cyclists.
(3) Climbing over rough ground, the route follows the rim of a dramatic escarpment above the sea, with wonderful views down to the water, often specked with passing porpoises and dolphins.
(4) Villages under the escarpment of the Tanzanian plateau were surveyed for breeding of Aedes aegypti.
(5) Exposure of laboratory-bred snails of B. tropicus from the Mau Escarpment and other populations of B. tropicus proved negative.
(6) Of the infected flies, 164 were collected in a cave near the patients' home, three from crevices on an escarpment immediately behind the house, and one from the bedroom of one of the patients.
(7) And it sits on the edge of the Kerio escarpment, jutting out into the vast sky, at a lung-sapping altitude of about 2440 metres (8,000ft).
(8) The goat originated from the Western escarpments of the Rift Valley which are known to harbor L. aethiopica.
(9) Like many other native species, dwarf crocodiles are poisoned when they ingest the bufotoxins in cane toads, which presents a major conservation issue for the entire upstream escarpment ecosystem.
(10) Zigag round the edge of the escarpment (2.3 miles), pausing for the vista.
(11) McNaughton settled on a 119-mile line, which would travel from Euston through an extensive former rail interchange at Old Oak Common in Acton, west London, and then north under the escarpment of the Chilterns to Birmingham’s derelict terminus at Curzon Street.
(12) Onchocerciasis was mesoendemic in the rocky northern escarpments, and became hypoendemic and sporadic in the southern uplands of sedimentary geological origin.
(13) On a cold and blustery day threatened by rain, Katy Whittaker, a young British climber, headed for Curbar Edge, outside Sheffield, to tackle an escarpment named – appropriately – Knockin' on Heaven's Door.
(14) Charles Darwin University's Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods has studied the effects of the toad on the smallest crocodile species found in northern Australia's upstream escarpments.
(15) A total of 480 snails were collected from 3 habitats on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya, and were identified as Bulinus tropicus.
(16) Another gang had clustered near an escarpment beneath Kjærlighetsstien, Lovers' Path.
(17) Held on an escarpment in north-east Arnhem Land, the Garma festival site is called Gulkula in Yolngu language.
(18) Although Bulinus (Physopsis) africanus (a host of Schistosoma species responsible for urinary bilharziasis) was found in the proposed source area of the water scheme, it is not possible at this stage to determine with certainty whether this host will be introduced over the Drakensberg escarpment into the Orange Free State.
(19) One hundred and twelve snails were collected from two habitats on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya and were provisionally identified as Bulinus tropicus from the characteristics of their shell and soft parts, chromosome number (n = 18), electrophoresis of egg protein on cellulose acetate strip and isoelectric focusing of AcP, GPI, HBDH, MDH and PGM digestive gland enzymes.
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.