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

scarp

/skɑːp

noun

1A very steep bank or slope; an escarpment: the north face is a very steep scarp...

The slopes are very steep in places, forming scarps.
On the long, steep scarp between the iron age hillfort above and ploughed fields below are white signs carved into the turf.
In this arid climate evaporites form; alluvial fans lie at the base of footwall scarps and carbonate reefs grow.

1.1The inner wall of a ditch in a fortification. Compare with counterscarp.More than 300 meters in diameter, Qala-i Jangi was of the style known as Vaubanian - built with moats, ramparts, scarps and counterscarps and parapets....

Additional mines were used to destroy the palisades of the covered passage and the supporting walls of the counterscarp or scarp, thus facilitating entry into the fortress.
The look-out openings on the parapet and even the gun-holes that honeycomb the scarp, serve as ventilators.

verb [with object]

1Cut or erode (a slope or hillside) so that it becomes steep, perpendicular, or precipitous: (as adjective scarped) the scarped edge of the central plateau...

A scarped windward slope is the aspect most characteristic of coastal dunes.
The picturesque old town, situated on the summit of a scarped hill, lies northwest of Reims and northeast of Paris.

1.1Provide (a ditch in a fortification) with a steep scarp and counterscarp.Outside this second circuit the natural slope has again been scarped to create a steep fall of about 10 m., at the bottom of which is a third, rather less substantial, rampart.

Origin

Late 16th century (with reference to fortification): from Italian scarpa.

单词	scarp
释义	scarp /skɑːp / noun 1A very steep bank or slope; an escarpment: the north face is a very steep scarp... The slopes are very steep in places, forming scarps. On the long, steep scarp between the iron age hillfort above and ploughed fields below are white signs carved into the turf. In this arid climate evaporites form; alluvial fans lie at the base of footwall scarps and carbonate reefs grow. 1.1The inner wall of a ditch in a fortification. Compare with counterscarp.More than 300 meters in diameter, Qala-i Jangi was of the style known as Vaubanian - built with moats, ramparts, scarps and counterscarps and parapets.... Additional mines were used to destroy the palisades of the covered passage and the supporting walls of the counterscarp or scarp, thus facilitating entry into the fortress. The look-out openings on the parapet and even the gun-holes that honeycomb the scarp, serve as ventilators. verb [with object] 1Cut or erode (a slope or hillside) so that it becomes steep, perpendicular, or precipitous: (as adjective scarped) the scarped edge of the central plateau... A scarped windward slope is the aspect most characteristic of coastal dunes. The picturesque old town, situated on the summit of a scarped hill, lies northwest of Reims and northeast of Paris. 1.1Provide (a ditch in a fortification) with a steep scarp and counterscarp.Outside this second circuit the natural slope has again been scarped to create a steep fall of about 10 m., at the bottom of which is a third, rather less substantial, rampart. Origin Late 16th century (with reference to fortification): from Italian scarpa. Rhymes Arp, carp, harp, sharp, tarp
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