glacier
A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhillA large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
» Have you ever seen a glacier?
Ты когда-нибудь видел ледник?
Вы когда-нибудь видели ледник?
Значение
значений: 3A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
Gletscher, Ferner, Kees
ледни́кledník, гле́тчерglétčer
льодови́кlʹodovýk
a slowly moving mass of ice
An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.
You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.
(переносно)Something that moves very slowly
The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.
Примеры
предложений: 40Have you ever seen a glacier?
Ты когда-нибудь видел ледник?
Glaciers are not only found in the Alps.
Ледники есть не только в Альпах.
The glacier moves but by inches.
Ледник движется, но очень медленно.
deDer Gletscher bewegt sich nur zentimeterweise.
The water comes straight from the glacier.
Вода течёт прямо из ледника.
Glaciers are melting because of global warming.
Ледники тают из-за глобального потепления.
deDie Gletscher schmelzen aufgrund der Erderwärmung.
Переводы
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Происхождение
Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciāriuBorrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciārium, a derivative of Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. First attested in English in 1744 per the OED.
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