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Acclivity
noun · 78% connection
A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Anticlinal
adjective · 78% connection
Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Auger
noun · 78% connection
A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Batter
verb · 78% connection
To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or ra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Crest
noun · 78% connection
A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Declivity
noun · 78% connection
Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the sam…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Fault
noun · 78% connection
Defect; want; lack; default.
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Fill
noun · 78% connection
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Flat
superl. · 78% connection
Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Gimbals
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Glacis
noun · 78% connection
A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Gyrolepis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Hook
noun · 78% connection
A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; a…
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Imbankment
noun · 78% connection
The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Incisive
adjective · 78% connection
Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
Laccolith
noun · 78% connection
A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.
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Laramie group
unknown · 78% connection
An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed…
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Lead
noun · 78% connection
One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, determining, beds, strata, slope.
