Значення

значень: 3
  1. A 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

  2. An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.

    You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.

  3. (переносно)Something that moves very slowly

    The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.

Приклади

речень: 40
  1. Have you ever seen a glacier?

    ruТы когда-нибудь видел ледник?

  2. The glacier moves slowly.

    Льодовик рухається повільно.

    ruЛедник движется медленно.

  3. The glaciers are melting.

    Льодовики тануть.

    ruЛедники тают.

    deDie Gletscher schmelzen.

  4. Glaciers are not only found in the Alps.

    ruЛедники есть не только в Альпах.

  5. The glacier moves but by inches.

    ruЛедник движется, но очень медленно.

    deDer Gletscher bewegt sich nur zentimeterweise.

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Походження

Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciāriu

Borrowed 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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