What's the difference between ghyll and ravine?

Ghyll


Definition:

  • (n.) A ravine. See Gill a woody glen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Are the quarrels raging across the dinner tables of the north's best restaurants, from L'Enclume to Holbeck Ghyll, Hipping Hall to the Angel Inn, real or fattened up for the occasion?
  • (2) Why it’s special The route starts and ends at The Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, in a stunning spot in the valley, and home to the Hikers Bar, which has long been a popular watering-hole for ramblers.
  • (3) Reward yourself The Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel has welcomed walkers and climbers for 300 years.
  • (4) Since then the slopes have been quiet, a few walkers apart, on these wet days with high winds likely and buzzards blown from the sky, though I saw two red foxes in Doddick Ghyll this week.
  • (5) At 100 psi I stopped because I was seeing black dots shooting down into the ghyll.

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.

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