What's the difference between fjord and loch?

Fjord


Definition:

  • (n.) See Fiord.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
  • (2) KSmythe Make a splash in the cold: Bergen, Norway Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images Bergen, even when the fjords are too wet and dreary to visit, is still a relaxing destination for a winter break in Norway.
  • (3) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
  • (4) The outbreak was limited to the city of Drammen and some densely populated areas on the Drammen fjord.
  • (5) The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country.
  • (6) Floor-to-ceiling windows offer sublime views of the vast fjord, with Wi-Fi, spacious hot showers and a black stone bathroom scoring extra luxury points.
  • (7) The problem facing oceanographers and climatologists is the nature of Greenland’s intricately carved coast, which features long fjords that push, like fingers, deep into the island’s interior.
  • (8) He defied his religious father by becoming an artist, won scholarships to study in Paris and spent the 1890s in fevered movement around Europe, coming back, always, to Oslo and its fjord, a long, winding, tree-lined inlet.
  • (9) To study whether this is a unique property of these compounds or a more general characteristic of fjord-region diol-epoxides, we have synthesized the anti- and syn-diastereomers of r-9,t-10-dihydroxy-11,12-oxy-9,10,11,12-tetrahydrobenzo(c)chrysene and r-11-t-12-dihydroxy-13,14-oxy-11,12,13,14-tetrahydrobenzo(g)chrysene.
  • (10) You’ll climb 100 metres in rocky high mountain landscape surrounded by glaciers before descending 1,300 metres (and 33 miles) to sea (or fjord) level, past waterfalls, through forested valleys and fjord farm landscapes to the town of Flåm.
  • (11) Photograph: Alamy While the Westfjords’ main roads (Route 60 and Route 61) provide views along the jagged routes that rise, fall, twist and turn along each fjord, there are also activities to try: kayaking, hiking, cycling.
  • (12) The present use of DDT in forest nurseries does not contaminate the neighbouring fjords to a noticeable degree.
  • (13) Out in the fjord, a white pillar rose up before falling back over the water, like rain.
  • (14) According to a recent report, scientists who studied three particularly important fjords found that existing maps underestimate their depths by several hundred metres.
  • (15) Fiamma Straneo, an Italian-born oceanographer, is laboriously winding recording equipment the size of a fire extinguisher from the deck of a small Greenpeace icebreaker caught in huge swells at the mouth of Sermilik fjord.
  • (16) The fjord-region diol-epoxides of benzo(c)phenanthrene combine high mutagenic and carcinogenic activity with low chemical reactivity.
  • (17) Determining the numbers of salmonellae by mpn-method the canalisation of the west-side of Kiel fjord proved to be dominated by the abbatoir of Kiel-Wellsee.
  • (18) For us, it’s skiing in the mountains of Hemsedal, hiking by the fjords and picking berries in the forests.
  • (19) Relative abundance of various PAH did not change significantly in the mussels collected from the head to the mouth of the fjord.
  • (20) Waking in Oslo fjord is just spectacular, because, although you are on a large ship, the sides of the fjord tower above you and you get a real sense of its scale.

Loch


Definition:

  • (n.) A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.
  • (n.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (2) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
  • (3) Grampian police joined forces with Tayside police and Marr search and rescue to comb a large area from Loch Muick to Glen Clova in the national park.
  • (4) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.
  • (5) At one stage, more than 60 train passengers were stranded on the West Highland line after it was closed down near Crianlarich, north of Loch Lomond.
  • (6) The next time Tobin bumped into Issing, he said cheerfully: "Here I am, the Loch Ness monster still!"
  • (7) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
  • (8) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
  • (9) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
  • (10) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
  • (11) In a small number of areas, we found that after the merger the parties would operate pubs in close proximity without facing sufficient competition from rivals and we are concerned this could lead to a rise in the price of food or drink or a reduction in the quality of those pubs.” Greene King, which brews Old Speckled Hen and Abbott Ale and operates chains such as Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne, said it intended to offer concessions to meet CMA concerns.
  • (12) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
  • (13) 4 Turn right on to a solid path, climb past St Margaret's loch and the ruin of St Anthony's chapel.
  • (14) The Lochranza hotel overlooks the castle and loch and has a vast selection of malt whiskeys.
  • (15) Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Loch Caoldair, Laggan, Western Cairngorms There are thousands of lochs in Scotland, and open access laws mean you can swim in virtually all of them.
  • (16) Though Scotland is a land of lochs, it's not known for its bathing.
  • (17) Whereas Campbell Toun Loch caters for the solitary, late-night drinker, Marugin attracts lively early-evening groups, eating, smoking and knocking back highballs.
  • (18) The first submarines of the US’s Polaris fleet arrived at their new base in the Holy Loch a few months later, and came and went in relays until the cold war was over, overlapping for a time with the Royal Navy’s missile submarines that had begun to sail from their headquarters at Faslane, a few miles across the Clyde in the Gare Loch.
  • (19) It also sets a great example – my three-year-old has now collected finisher’s medals at Ironkids and Loch Ness Marathon and loves being outside because that’s what mummy and daddy do.
  • (20) But think how fascinating the idea of a loch monster is.

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