单词 | isblink |
释义 | isblinkn. = ice blink n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > end isblink1870 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 132 The famous Ice-glance, called in some charts, Eis-blink. It is a large high field of ice.] 1870 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 26 679 Here the ‘Iisblink’, or the ‘ice glance’, of the Danes (i.e. the projecting glacier—though English seamen use the word iceblink in a totally different sense, meaning thereby the ‘loom’ of ice at a distance), projects bodily out to sea for more than a mile. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 167/2 If..the sea is shallow, the glacier will protrude for a considerable distance, as in the case of the Isblink. 1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era I. iv. 72 For this type [sc. continental ice-sheet] there is almost universal assent: it constitutes O. Nordenskiöld's ‘continental glaciers’, Hobbs' ‘ice-cap type’, and the ‘inland ice’ of Drygalski, Ferrar and Gourdon. Early writers, following H. Rink (1851), named it Isblink from the peculiar light seen over the inland ice when approached from the sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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