corrie

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Определение corrie в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

A female given name, diminutive of Cora, Corinne, or borrowed from the Dutch pet form of Cornelia

A male given name, occasional transferred use of the surname

Coronation Street (soap opera)

A Scottish surname

A bowl-shaped geographical feature formed by glaciation

diminutive of Cora, Corinne, or borrowed from the Dutch pet form of Cornelia

occasional transferred use of the surname

{i} cirque, emicircular bowl-shaped hole with steep walls inside of a hill or mountain formed by glacial erosion (Geology)

A glacially scoured bowl or saucer-shaped hollow in a high mountain side Other names include cirque (French) and cwm (Welsh)

(Welsh cwm; French cirque) steep-sided hollow in the mountainside of a glaciated area A corrie is open at the front, and its sides and back are formed of aretes There may be a lake in the bottom, called a tarn

A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain caused by glacial erosion After glaciation, the depression may contain a lake

a deep bowl-shaped area on a mountain (coire )

Same as Correi

a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

comes from the Gaelic coire, and is applied to a round hollow in the mountainside and to a whirlpool The name literally means a kettle (or, more strictly, a cauldron or boiler, which in olden days did not have handles or a spout like a modern kettle)

Связанные Термины

corries

plural of corrie

Расстановка переносов

cor·rie

Турецкое произношение

kôri

Синонимы

cirque

Произношение

/ˈkôrē/ /ˈkɔːriː/

Этимология

() From Highland Scottish Gaelic.