(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas ti…
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support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
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the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.land on a beach; "the ship beached near the port"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a v…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a v…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a v…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Oceans and coasts.there are usually two high and two low tides each day
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A flying buttress.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.of Buttress
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.of Buttress
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.(chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid.; "The crystallinity of drug substances and additives is one of the fundamental…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous ele…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: support, placing, solid, rigid, shore.To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a lik…
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