英语词汇“wind-gap”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. With defining word, as water gap (see water gap n. 1b); wind-gap (see quot. 1889).

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1779 D. Livermore in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1850) VI. 314 This morning the troops..pass the Windgap, so called, for its being the only pass for a number of miles through a long chain of mountains.

1877 A. B. Sylvester Sk. North. N.Y. 60 A water-gap, forming a natural gateway through the mountains.

1889 J. D. Whitney United States 223 Gaps..in which the depression in the ridge is not sufficiently deep to give passage to a watercourse are known as ‘wind-gaps’.

wind-gap n. (see gap n.¹ 5b); spec. (see quot. 1939).

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine > specific abandoned

wind-gap1889

1889 J. D. Whitney United States 223 Gaps..in which the depression in the ridge is not sufficiently deep to give passage to a watercourse are known as ‘wind-gaps’.

1895 Geogr. Jrnl. 5 144 If the land should be raised a few hundred feet, these head-waters would soon be gained by the Trent; and the divide between the successful and defeated systems would be pushed to the notch in the hard Oölite, which would then be a ‘wind-gap’, instead of a ‘water-gap’, as the Pennsylvanians say.

1939 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 50 1343 The term ‘wind gap’ is now more commonly restricted to abandoned water gaps, while those gaps not believed to have been former water gaps are designated as ‘cols’.

1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 76/1 Possible signs of river capture that can often be detected in the landscape include windgaps and elbows of capture, incision of the capturing stream below the capture, and the evident misfit nature of the beheaded stream.

单词	wind-gap
释义	> as lemmas wind-gap b. With defining word, as water gap (see water gap n. 1b); wind-gap (see quot. 1889). ΚΠ 1779 D. Livermore in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1850) VI. 314 This morning the troops..pass the Windgap, so called, for its being the only pass for a number of miles through a long chain of mountains. 1877 A. B. Sylvester Sk. North. N.Y. 60 A water-gap, forming a natural gateway through the mountains. 1889 J. D. Whitney United States 223 Gaps..in which the depression in the ridge is not sufficiently deep to give passage to a watercourse are known as ‘wind-gaps’. extracted from gapn.¹ wind-gap wind-gap n. (see gap n.¹ 5b); spec. (see quot. 1939). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine > specific abandoned wind-gap1889 1889 J. D. Whitney United States 223 Gaps..in which the depression in the ridge is not sufficiently deep to give passage to a watercourse are known as ‘wind-gaps’. 1895 Geogr. Jrnl. 5 144 If the land should be raised a few hundred feet, these head-waters would soon be gained by the Trent; and the divide between the successful and defeated systems would be pushed to the notch in the hard Oölite, which would then be a ‘wind-gap’, instead of a ‘water-gap’, as the Pennsylvanians say. 1939 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 50 1343 The term ‘wind gap’ is now more commonly restricted to abandoned water gaps, while those gaps not believed to have been former water gaps are designated as ‘cols’. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 76/1 Possible signs of river capture that can often be detected in the landscape include windgaps and elbows of capture, incision of the capturing stream below the capture, and the evident misfit nature of the beheaded stream. extracted from windn.¹ < as lemmas
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