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词汇 glacial
释义 glacial
adjective
uk /ˈɡleɪ.si.əl/ us /ˈɡleɪ.ʃəl/

glacialadjective (ICE/COLD)


made or left by a glacier: 由冰河形成的;冰川造成的
glacial deposits冰川沉积
extremely cold: 极冷的,冰冷的
glacial temperatures极低的气温
a glacial period极寒冷的时期
Synonyms
Arcticfigurative
biting(COLD)
bitter(COLD)
freezing
There are 1 million acres of uninterrupted forest, the result of glacial and climatic activity.
The village has a spectacular setting at the bottom of a wide glacial valley.
Most of what you see below you is glacial debris.
The milk-green waters look almost glacial.
They stepped out into a glacial wind.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Precipitation: snow & ice
anti-icing
avalanche
be snowed inidiom
be snowed upidiom
boilerplate
crevasse
drifting
glacier
hailstorm
iceberg
icy
permafrost
precipitation
slushy
snow day
snow devil
snow line
snowdrift
snowfall
snowflake generation

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Cold

glacialadjective (NOT FRIENDLY)


extremely unfriendly: 冷若冰霜的,冷冰冰的,冷淡的
She gave me a glacial stare.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not liking or being pleasant towards others
unfriendlyThe crowd was unfriendly and dangerous.
coolShe was very cool towards his new wife.
coldShe's a cold, heartless woman.
icyHe gave me an icy stare.
glacialHer reception of him was glacial.
His grin vanished and his eyes turned glacial.
"And don't insult me," she said in a glacial tone.
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Not being friendly
abrasive
abrasively
abrasiveness
abruptly
abruptness
aloof
estrangement
estrangement from someone
flintily
forbidding
forbiddingly
gruff
offhandedness
offish
remote
remoteness
reserved
saturnine
wintry
with friends like you, who needs enemies?idiom

glacialadjective (SLOW)


extremely slow:
glacial paceThe case is moving forward at a glacial pace.
The scenery rolled past at a speed that seemed positively glacial.
Government generally moves at glacial speed.
Activists complain about the glacial pace of change.
The pace of the music is deliberate and dirgelike, if not glacial.
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Slow and moving slowly
(as) slow as molassesidiom
at a snail's paceidiom
by and byidiom
by degreesidiom
claw your way (somewhere)idiom
float
hang around
in ones and twosidiom
inch by inchidiom
infiltrate
infiltration
jog
labour
sluggish
sluggishly
sluggishness
snail
staged
struggle
wander
glacial
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɡleɪ.si.əl/ us /ˈɡleɪ.ʃəl/
short forglacial period: a very cold period during the earth's history when large masses of ice covered much of the earth's surface:
An ice core dating back 740,000 years has revealed eight ice ages, or glacials, followed by shorter interglacial periods.
Synonym
ice age
Natural aerosols are more abundant in the dry cold glacials than in the warm, wet interglacials.
Their work showed how orbital eccentricities could account for glacials and inter-glacials.
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Prehistory
anatosaurus
apatosaurus
Australopithecus
brachiosaurus
broch
henge
Holocene
ice age
ichthyosaur
iguanodon
Permian
Phanerozoic
pictograph
Pleistocene
Pliocene
quern
raptor
Silurian
standing stone
stegosaurus

Examples of glacial


glacial
The largest glacials were 2, 6, 12, and 16; the warmest interglacials, 1, 5, 9 and 11.
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There is a general correspondence between glacials in different regions.
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Extensive evidence now shows that a number of periods of growth and retreat of continental glaciers occurred during the ice age, called glacials and interglacials.
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The advent of sediment and ice cores revealed the true situation: glacials are long, interglacials short.
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Rapid glacial erosion of mountain belts likely keeps pace with tectonic uplift, thus limiting the height of mountain belts.
Viewed from the road above, the crushed glass roof covering and opaque glass skin of the walls dissolve the building into its glacial context.
In this landscape a powerful combination of natural and artificial land forms exist of a scale reminiscent of glacial action or volcanic action or flooding.
Large granite glacial boulders unearthed in the mining process.
There is no systematic correspondence of pluvials to glacials, however.
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There is currently no evidence available for microbes living in glacial ice without initially melting it before analysis.
The registry clerk also noted that the glacial rivers were not so dangerous or difficult to cross as later became dominant in the area descriptions.
Glacial drift, both as till and fluvial deposits, is a major contributor to a variety of both micro- and macro-landforms.
The lake is fed by ephemeral glacial streams during 6 -8 weeks in the summer.
Most investigators have accepted a glacial formation, but some prefer a soft-sediment mechanism.
On short time scales, there seems to be a rather clear relationship between sedimentation rates and glacial- interglacial cycles.
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