precipice

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Определение precipice в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь

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Определение precipice в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

The brink of a dangerous situation

to stand on a precipice.

A headlong fall or descent

A very steep cliff

I resolved to remove my tent from the place where it stood, which was just under the hanging precipice of the hill; and which, if it should be shaken again, would certainly fall upon my tent.

a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff

A precipice is a very steep cliff on a mountain

If you say that someone is on the edge of a precipice, you mean that they are in a dangerous situation in which they are extremely close to disaster or failure. The King now stands on the brink of a political precipice

{n} a headlong or perpendicular fall

A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff

A sudden or headlong fall

{i} steep slope; cliff; chasm; brink of an abyss; danger, risk, peril

Связанные Термины

a precipice

{n} steep

precipices

plural of precipice

Расстановка переносов

pre·ci·pice

Турецкое произношение

presıpıs

Синонимы

cliff, bluff, crag, height, sheer drop, steep

Произношение

/ˈpresəpəs/ /ˈprɛsəpəs/

Этимология

() First attested in 1598, from Latin *præcipitium (“a steep place”), from præceps (“steep”), from præ + caput (“head”). First meaning of the noun is recorded from 1632.