单词 | denudation |
释义 | denudationn. 1. a. The action of making naked or bare; a stripping off of clothing or covering; denuded condition. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare denudation1584 devesting1603 dismantling1611 baringa1616 nudification1855 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripped or bare condition nudationa1500 bareness1552 nudity1611 nakedness1750 denudation1816 starkness1824 denudement1831 strippedness1856 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xxiv. 440 Denudation and vnction, with holie oile. 1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees i. 51 The Modesty of Woman is the Result of Custom and Education, by which all unfashionable Denudations..are rendr'd..abominable to them. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 44 The inns..in a state of denudation of furniture. 1884 Manch. Examiner 10 July 5/3 Ireland, once a land of forests, has suffered enormously from the process of denudation. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] discoveringa1375 nakeninga1382 bewrayingc1386 detection1471 discoverture?1473 revelationc1485 disclosinga1513 disclosurea1525 disclose1548 overture1548 patefaction1553 displaying1556 discovery1567 unripping1568 revealment1576 discoverment1578 retection1581 unmaskinga1586 unclasping?1592 denudation1593 untrussing1597 uncovering1598 detecting1604 divulging1604 divulgation1610 unvizardinga1628 exposinga1631 divulgement1632 unbowellinga1639 unfolding1646 revealinga1649 unrolling1648 pre-discovery1653 discoverance1664 unshelling1670 development1760 unveilinga1774 disclosal1786 displayment1801 divulgence1851 revelationism1854 unbosoming1910 uncovery1963 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 62 All this he barely repeates without any disprouement or denudation. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 375 A denudation of your souls, and your sinnes, by humble confession. c. The action of divesting or depriving. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [noun] > action of depriving privationa1425 depriving1475 deprivation1533 bereavinga1535 disfurniture1565 disfurnishinga1577 disfurnishment1603 deprival1611 deprivement1630 denudation1633 disgarnishing1812 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 10) 1307 Such a destitution of succour, and denudation of all refuge. 1644 Bp. J. Hall Devout Soul x. 44 There must be..a denudation of the minde from all those images of our phantasie..that may carry our thoughts aside. 1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) x. 529 The subjunctive is distinguished from the indicative merely by the denudation of flexion. 2. Geology. The laying bare of an underlying rock or formation through the wearing away or erosion of that which lies above it, by the action of water, ice, or other natural agency. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] deterration1686 undermining1693 erosion1774 corrosion1781 degradation1799 denudation1811 corrasion1875 1811 J. Farey in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 101 242 (title) Account of the great Derbyshire Denudation. 1823 W. Buckland Reliq. Diluvianæ 118 (note) This gorge is simply a valley of denudation. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xvi. 345 Considering the enormous power of denudation which the sea possesses. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 149 At the present rate of denudation, it would require about 5½ million years to reduce the British Isles to a flat plane at the level of the sea. 1949 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 60 165 (title) The denudation chronology of the dip-slope of the South Downs. 1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. iii. 35 Some geologists have used the term denudation as if it were synonymous with gradation, but as this term implies removal of material, it is hardly logical to include deposition under it. 1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. i. 2 In its second sense, geomorphology is the study of the evolution of landscapes. Such study is often termed denudation chronology. 1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) iii. 22 The cycle of denudation on the land and of sedimentation in the water is brought to a close by earth movements. Derivatives denuˈdational adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [adjective] degrading1842 laterized1847 lateritized1865 abrasional1889 destructional1900 erosional1903 denudational1913 1913 A. Holmes Age of Earth iv. 60 The application of denudational statistics to the measurement of geological time will be considered. 1928 N. O. G. Nordenskjöld & L. Mecking Geogr. Polar Regions 58 Old denudational surfaces or raised peneplains. 1956 Nature 28 Jan. 166/1 The sequence of cyclic denudational landscapes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1584 |
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