| 单词 | headland |
| 释义 | headland (once / 1698 pages) n WORD FAMILY headland: headlands USAGE EXAMPLESUphill lies cragged headland, machine gun roosts, bulwarks of stacked logs and the terra-cotta rooftops of a village below a crumbling fortress. Time(Oct 17, 2016) Ms. Headland intimates that we are in store for psychological entanglement and perhaps something darker. New York Times(Aug 25, 2016) Hi, one of the creators of The Headlands Gamble here. New York Times(Aug 23, 2016) n a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper foreland, head, promontory Cape Horn a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego) Rock of Gibraltarlocation of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules Cape Hatterasa promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina Cape Canaverala sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight Cape Sablea promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotia Jebel Musaa promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules mull a term used in Scottish names of promontories pointa promontory extending out into a large body of water elevation, natural elevation a raised or elevated geological formation |
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