单词 | dune |
释义 | dunen. A mound, hill, or ridge of sand or (occasionally) other loose sediment, typically deposited by the wind and occurring esp. on the sea coast or in deserts, often in large numbers.grey dune, sand dune, seif dune, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > sand-hill sand-hillc725 dene1278 down1523 sand down1604 dune1605 hummock1793 towan1803 sand-dune1830 medano1839 sea-bank1858 barchan1888 whaleback1918 fore-dune1921 seif1925 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 100 The sand bancks or dunes, which the reiection of the sea by litle and litle hath raised and cast vp. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Downes The Hollanders..call the Sand banks, which lye on the sea-side, the Dunes; And the Town of Dunkirk, rightly in English, Dun-Church, took denomination from its being scituate in the Dunes or Sand-banks of the Sea. 1782 Archaeologia 6 26 I also recollect to have observed considerable sand hills, or dunes, like those in Holland, on the neighbouring coast between Margam and Breton Ferry. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xvi. 210 On the dunes of Nagow Wudjoo..Stood the lodge of Pau-Puk-Keewis. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 266/1 Captain Sturt found vast deserts of sand in the interior of Australia, with long lines of dunes 200 feet high. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xlv. 238 [We] found ourselves..amid sand-hills coated slenderly with tamarisk... The bushes and the dunes broke the wind. 1961 Jrnl. Sedimentary Petrol. 31 246/2 Clay dunes are..limited to the shores of clay-floored saline playas and tidal mud flats. 1991 E. Barker O Caledonia (1992) ii. 19 The beach spread in a great curve, fringed by mournful dunes. 2007 Horizons (British Airways) May 61/2 Explore the undulating coastal dunes by quad bike, or head into the foothills of the Atlas Mountains on a 4X4 outride. Compounds dune bedding n. a pattern of bedding (bedding n. 4) found in sandstones which preserves the outline of dunes from which the rock was formed. ΚΠ 1903 Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci. 3 26 Some of these lower strata show sand-dune bedding, while others are horizontal.] 1913 A. W. Grabau Princ. Stratigr. xiii. 550 This deposit also shows the other common characters of wind-drifted material, such as uniform size of grains and dune bedding structure. 1946 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery xxii. 229 The Permian Mauchline Sandstones..are believed to represent desert sand-dunes for they exhibit dune-bedding on a huge scale. 2016 C. Pellant & H. Pellant Geol. Struct. 92 Dune bedding, produced by the large-scale movement of sand under the influence of the wind, is usually on a bigger scale than water-deposited cross-bedding. dune buggy n. originally U.S. a small, low motor vehicle with wide wheels and often an open top and sides, designed for driving on sand.Also called a beach buggy (see beach buggy n. at beach n. Compounds 2). Dune buggy is the standard term in North American English. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > beach buggy buggy1930 dune buggy1955 beach buggy1961 1955 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 1 Apr. 16/2 The spare time project Fred is now working on is a dune buggy, a do-it-yourself car with special equipment for sand travel. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 18/2 Visitors can rent a dune buggy, pack a picnic lunch, and spend several days exploring the mountains and beaches of Mahe. 2014 S. Vining Held against You xxiv. 248 We ride dune buggies in the desert. dune field n. a region or area characterized by extensive dunes (often forming parallel ridges or crescents under the influence of a prevailing wind); a group of dunes. ΚΠ 1910 J. M. Hulth Maps & Mem. Swedish Geol. 80 The dune-fields of Fåron [Sw. om flygsandsfälten på Fårön]. 1977 Illustr. London News 28 May 21 (caption) Mobile, dark sand streams down a gently curving channel and builds up in a wide delta-shaped dune field distinguished by a sinuous pattern of ridges. 2015 M. Garstang Elephant Sense & Sensibility i. 1 The Namib Desert..contains the largest dune fields of all the world's deserts. dune sand n. sand formed into dunes by the wind; sand found in dunes. ΚΠ 1787 A. Young Jrnl. 7 Nov. in Trav. France (1792) i. 74 Mons. le Brun has an improvement on the Dunes, which he very obligingly shewed me. Between the town and that place are..one or two fields inclosed of most wretched blowing dune sand. 1869 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 494 At the new advance port of Amsterdam the beton blocks are composed of one measure of Portland cement, four measures of dune sand, and five measures of gravel. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 132 So far as the various environments along the shore are concerned, beach sands and dune sands have been distinguished by several authors. 2012 T. Clayton How to read Florida Gulf Coast Beach vii. 146 Dune sand is often (though not always) finer and better sorted than the sand on the beach it came from. dune slack n. a hollow between sand dunes, esp. one containing standing water or boggy ground; cf. slack n.1 2. ΚΠ 1911 New Phytologist 10 280 Little was seen of the particularly interesting Bryophyte vegetation of the dune slacks. 1938 Nature 7 May 817/2 The parallel ridges often rest on a relatively impermeable substratum, and the water, of which the dune ridges are the catchment area, drains into the intervening hollows and sometimes forms what are known as ‘dune slacks’...The dune slacks are the especial home of the bog pimpernel. 2006 Bird Watching Aug. 70/1 Hills tumble inland from embryonic dunes fronting the shoreline to ancient summits and dune slacks, a botanist's paradise. Derivatives dune-like adj. resembling, or reminiscent of, a sand dune. ΚΠ 1848 R. H. Schomburgk Hist. Barbados i. viii. 224 It..was protected on the east by the Dune-like hills. 1913 Jrnl. Geol. 21 297 The topography of this eolian silt is smooth, molded to the underlying bedrock.., and never dune-like. 2013 A. J. Bach & L. W. Price in M. F. Price et al. Mountain Geogr. iii. 67 The snow is deposited into dune-like features called drifts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1605 |
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