Glacier synonyms

glā'shər

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floe
A low, flat mass of floating ice.
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iceberg
A massive body of floating ice that has broken away from a glacier or ice field. Most of an iceberg lies underwater, but because ice is not as dense as water, about one ninth of it remains above the surface.
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berg
A municipality in Troms, Norway.
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glacial mass
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icecap
An extensive dome-shaped or platelike perennial cover of ice and snow that spreads out from a center and covers a large area, especially of land or a polar region.
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ice-field
A large expanse of ice covering a mountainous region and consisting of several interconnected glaciers.
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glaciers (related)
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snow slide
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ice stream
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ice torrent
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glacial table
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névé
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firn
The granular snow, not in a completely compacted mass, that accumulates at the top of a glacier
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sérac
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mer de glace (French)
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vatnajokull (related)
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myrdalsjokull (related)
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snowfield (related)
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Kangerdlugssuaq (related)
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mountain-range (related)
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Potaniin (related)
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biafo (related)
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Baltoro (related)
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dachstein (related)
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fjord (related)
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plateau (related)
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mountain (related)
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moraine (related)
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ice-floe
A large, flat expanse of floating ice smaller than a marine ice field.
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ice-sheet
A large sheet of ice and snow that covers an entire region and spreads out under its own weight.
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marmolada (related)
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Glacier Sentence Examples

  • About half a mile from the glacier the river turns S.E.

  • Most of the glaciers terminate at an altitude of 14,800-14,900 feet, but the small Cesar glacier, drained to the Hausberg valley, reaches to 14,450.

  • The whole interior of Greenland is completely covered by the so-called inland ice, an enormous glacier forming a regular shield-shaped expanse of snow and glacier ice, and burying all valleys and mountains far below its surface.

  • long, which, with the smaller Kolb glacier, lie immediately west of the main divide.

  • Another single glacier has been surveyed 36 m.

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