| 单词 | stream-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstream-like C2. objective, parasynthetic, etc., as stream-bordering, stream-cut, stream-embroidered, stream-illumed, stream-like adjs. Also stream-cutting vbl. n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] > cutting channel or hole stream-cutting1626 gorging1833 outscour1883 incision1906 gullying1928 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [adjective] > cutting channel or hole stream-cut1626 mining1816 incised1898 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis x. 198 Streame-bordering Willow. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation Solil. ii, in Wks. (1880) II. 175/1 The green-breasted, stream-embroydred Plaines. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iii. 78 Dim twilight-lawns, and stream-illumined caves. 1820 W. Wordsworth Misc. Sonn. iii. ii. 13 The stream-like windings of that glorious street. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 47 Since there is little or no stream-cutting below such lakelets, they may persist longer than do the lakes dammed by the main mass of the slide. 1970 R. J. Small Study of Landforms ix. 314 Pediments form not at the bases of fault-scarps but beneath the retreating walls of stream-cut valleys. 1973 Nature 2 Mar. 40/1 In a streamcut channel, the Ganurgarh shales intercalated with limestone have been exposed. < as lemmas |
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