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

a. Geology. A term applied (a) to any superficial deposit caused by a current of water or air; also (b) spec. ( the Drift) to Pleistocene deposits of glacial and fluvio-glacial detritus, also known as boulder-clay, and till; diluvium.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > diluvium

alluvion1731

diluvium1819

drift1839

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxvii. 509 Each region of the earth has its own superficial diluvia, produced by separate and distinct action; [for these] the unambiguous word drift is proposed.

1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. i. i. 23 Accumulations of marine and fresh-water shingle and gravel called drift and diluvium.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times Pref. 1 The Flint Implements of the Drift.

1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 609 Drift, loose sand or a very loose friable alluvial deposit met with in some places close to the washdirt.

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vi. v. i. §1. 858 This ‘glacial drift’ spreads over the low ground of the glaciated districts.

1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 2 These Palæolithic men of the river drift.

figurative.1878 W. P. Roberts Law & God (ed. 5) 44 In the Protestant drift may often be found..the implements of Rome.attributive.1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 43 The mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times x. 323 This drift-age cone..is about twelve times as large as that now forming.1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks iv. 113 The removal of the drift deposits allows the underlying rocks to become visible.

单词	the drift
释义	> as lemmas the Drift a. Geology. A term applied (a) to any superficial deposit caused by a current of water or air; also (b) spec. ( the Drift) to Pleistocene deposits of glacial and fluvio-glacial detritus, also known as boulder-clay, and till; diluvium. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > diluvium alluvion1731 diluvium1819 drift1839 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxvii. 509 Each region of the earth has its own superficial diluvia, produced by separate and distinct action; [for these] the unambiguous word drift is proposed. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. i. i. 23 Accumulations of marine and fresh-water shingle and gravel called drift and diluvium. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times Pref. 1 The Flint Implements of the Drift. 1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 609 Drift, loose sand or a very loose friable alluvial deposit met with in some places close to the washdirt. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vi. v. i. §1. 858 This ‘glacial drift’ spreads over the low ground of the glaciated districts. 1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 2 These Palæolithic men of the river drift. figurative.1878 W. P. Roberts Law & God (ed. 5) 44 In the Protestant drift may often be found..the implements of Rome.attributive.1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 43 The mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times x. 323 This drift-age cone..is about twelve times as large as that now forming.1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks iv. 113 The removal of the drift deposits allows the underlying rocks to become visible. extracted from driftn. < as lemmas
随便看	monachists monachization monachize monachizing monact monactinal monactine monactinellid monactinellidan monad monad-form monad-like monadary monadelph monadelphia monadelphian monadelphic monadelphist monadelphous monades monadform monadiary monadic monadical monadically

> as lemmas