What's the difference between glaciate and gladiate?
Glaciate
Definition:
(v. i.) To turn to ice.
(v. t.) To convert into, or cover with, ice.
(v. t.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early on Saturday morning, he reached the summit of Nuptse, the first and lowest of the three main summits in the Everest "horseshoe" that surrounds the glaciated valley called the Western Cwm.
(2) From the top of this glaciated U-shaped valley are views over the Glasglyn river, out to Cardigan Bay and beyond.
(3) In Tasmania there are landlocked populations of G. truttaceus in a cluster of geologically young lakes on the recently glaciated Central Plateau.
(4) The sample fits in a European evolutionary sequence of reducing posterior and expanding anterior permanent teeth, while the deciduous teeth seem to undergo expansion through the Würm glaciation.
(5) The Matterhorn is visible now, and we spot other famous glaciated peaks, the Weisshorn and Breithorn.
(6) Since the discovery of the fossil teeth of Yuanmou man (Homo erectus yuanmouensis) on May 1, 1965 from Yuanmou county, Yunnan Province, the Institute of Geomechanics, relying on the local poor and lower-middle peasants and co-operating with other units concerned, has been conducting intensive researches on the fossil man-bearing strata as well as Quaternary glaciation.
(7) This divergence time suggests that D. pseudoobscura extended its range from North America to South America in a period of Pleistocene glaciation, when habitat suitable for the species presumably existed in lowland Central America.
(8) For the Quaternary, Artemisia is often present with low percentages and is only developing during the glaciation.
(9) This coincides with very rapid glaciation; sea level fell by more than 100 metres, devastating shallow marine ecosystems; less than a million years later, there was a second wave of extinctions as ice melted, sea level rose rapidly, and oceans became oxygen-depleted.
(10) 700,000-10,000 BP) in northern Eurasia and North America was a time of constantly changing climate, ranging from phases of extensive glaciation in cold stages, to temperate periods (interglacials).
(11) Smelt and sea raven belong to taxonomic orders believed to have diverged prior to Cenozoic glaciation.
(12) Asexual taxa have a greater tendency than sexual taxa do to colonize once-glaciated areas.
(13) Jotunheimen national park is a sub-Arctic wilderness with trails up and around glaciated peaks such as Norway's highest, Galdhøppigen.
(14) High in the 2,000-metre-plus Olympic mountains, much of that precipitation falls in the form of snow, which feeds more than 250 glaciers, making this the most glaciated US terrain outside Alaska.
(15) They completely dismiss the rival theory that the stones were carried by glaciers: "The one tiny flaw in the theory is that there is absolutely no evidence for glaciation of Wiltshire," Wainwright said.
(16) Even today, scientific opinion remains divided over whether they were hewn, dragged and possibly floated to the site, or were merely left lying there in the wake of retreating glaciations; while, as for the still larger sarsen stones, as far as I'm aware there's no specific separate explanation for how they got to Stonehenge from the Marlborough Downs, which are by no means as far as Wales but still a significant drag away.
(17) Of special interest is that under the Yuanmou formation there occur glacial traces which prove beyond doubt the existence of glaciation over 3 million years ago.
(18) Analysis of the state average values in geological provinces shows the highest provincial areas for Ra are the Upper Coastal Plain, the glaciated Central Platform, and the Colorado plateau.
(19) Tasmania urged to scrap plan to open more world heritage area to tourism Read more “My concern is for the areas of rainforest and high-altitude vegetation in heavily glaciated [areas] where fire is not and has not been part of the ecology for millions and millions of years.” Law said pencil pines and fagus, Australia’s only winter-deciduous tree, are now in the path of large fires moving into the world heritage area.
Gladiate
Definition:
(a.) Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.
Example Sentences:
(1) I found girls who had been pirates, gladiators, I wanted young girls to know they could do whatever was on their mind.” Toksvig, who will leave News Quiz in four weeks’ time, said her political work was now more important than her broadcasting.
(2) In summer there are weekly re-enactments of gladiator fights, and it is also used for plays, concerts and the September Outlook festival .
(3) Of his 13 films, four have been colossal box-office hits - Alien, Thelma & Louise, Hannibal, Gladiator - and one, Blade Runner , is now venerated as a classic.
(4) The fact that players play on through the pain barrier and are celebrated as modern-day gladiators is also ignorance and lack of education.
(5) Scott, the film-maker behind such classics as Blade Runner and Alien , has been nominated three times over the course of his career for Thelma and Louise , Gladiator and Black Hawk Down , but has yet to win a trophy.
(6) Beyond that the similarities end, since Macrinus did not fall out with the emperor's son nor become a gladiator but died a rich man, honoured by his massive mausoleum.
(7) Among the gladiators is charismatic up'n'comer Grado, star of a recent Vice documentary about the UK wrestling scene.
(8) He has been married twice, with two sons by his first marriage, and a daughter by his second, and has recently been going out with Gianina Facio, the Costa Rican actress who played Russell Crowe's wife in Gladiator.
(9) Murphy's law One of Stuart Murphy's first acts when he became Sky1's director of programmes last month was to axe two of the channel's highest profile and highest rating shows: the revamped Gladiators and Don't Forget the Lyrics, hosted by Shane Richie.
(10) They also reveal a lot of filthy gossip about prostitutes and gladiators but, seeing as that is not strictly relevant to the film, interested readers will just have to look it up for themselves.
(11) As he limped round the fringes of the pitch, he was afforded a gladiator's reception.
(12) Orthopaedic surgeons have long had an association with sport, although it is arguable whether Galen who was the first sports medicine doctor, appointed to the Pergamum Gladiators in 157 AD was a surgeon by todays definition.
(13) While this was the product of necessity, Calvo says he now likes this: “I think it makes people ride a bit more slowly and carefully.” These are no UK-style traffic-battling gladiators.
(14) Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Prometheus are just the highlights of Ridley Scott’s directorial career, which stretches back 37 years to The Duellists, released in 1977, and which is about to enter a new chapter with the biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings .
(15) The gladiators seem bored, and they need something to do that isn’t related to the White House or B613.
(16) Any appointment would mark something of a coup for director Zack Snyder and studio Warner Brothers, with Phoenix having largely eschewed mainstream roles in favour of arthouse and indie fare since his standout turn as usurper emperor Commodus in 2000's Gladiator.
(17) It wasn’t until Gladiator, in 2000, which fused glistening CGI (computer generated imagery) with old-fashioned Hollywood spectacle, that he found a successful path out of the woods.
(18) But as a number of subsequent apologies would suggest, the disses were a learning curve; Lorde spent the bulk of her early interviews being pushed into the gladiator ring with pretty much every other female pop star on the planet and asked to pass comment for the sake of a headline.
(19) Moore held one arm aloft in the familiar gladiator salute while Hurst was smothered with congratulations.
(20) Gladiator’s success triggered a latter-day predilection for classical and medieval-era epics – Robin Hood and crusades drama Kingdom of Heaven, as well as Gladiator – and Scott now has some claim to being the Cecil B DeMille of the digital era.