Glacier

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Overview of noun glacier

      »   The noun glacier has 1 meanings (first 1 from tagged texts)

• glacier -- (a Slowly1.) Slowly, slow, easy, tardily -- (without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights")
  
  2.) Lento, slowly -- (in music; "Play this lento, please")
  
  slowly moving Mass1.) Mass -- (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)
  
  2.) Batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew -- ((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty")
  
  mass of ice)

Related Terms - "Glacier"

Meaning 1 of Glacierglacier ice mass

• Glacier1.) Glacier -- (a slowly moving mass of ice)
  
  Glacier - A slowly moving mass of ice

• Iceberg1.) Iceberg, berg -- (a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier)
  
  2.) Crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce, iceberg -- (lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head; "iceberg is still the most popular lettuce")
  
  Iceberg, Berg1.) Iceberg, berg -- (a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier)
  
  2.) Berg, Alban Berg -- (Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935))
  
  Berg - A large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

• Icecap1.) Icecap, ice cap -- (a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak))
  
  Icecap, Ice cap1.) Icecap, ice cap -- (a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak))
  
  Ice cap - A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)

• Ice field1.) Ice field -- (a large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) floating at sea)
  
  Ice field - A large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) floating at sea

• Ice floe1.) Ice floe, floe -- (a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea)
  
  Ice floe, Floe1.) Ice floe, floe -- (a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea)
  
  Floe - A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea