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B1water,especiallyfrom ariverorstream,droppingfrom ahigherto alowerpoint, sometimes from agreatheight 瀑布 ooyoo/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages - Thistourtakesin the area's best-knownnaturalfeatures,includingthe Gullfoss waterfall.
- "Justlookat that waterfall! Isn't itamazing?" shemarvelled.
- Can youfeelthesprayfrom the waterfall?
- I couldn'thearwhat he was saying over thethunderof the waterfall.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesWatercourses & waterfalls - amazon
- arroyo
- beck
- bourne
- brook
- burn
- cascade
- cataract
- Euphrates
- fluvial
- fordable
- gulch
- maelstrom
- plunge pool
- rapids
- rill
- riverbed
- riverine
- runnel
- waterway
See more results » (Definition ofwaterfallfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- It’s the largest waterfall in the world.
- One of the most amazing BASE jumps is the jump from Angel Falls in Venezuela, the world’s highest waterfall.
- People love to visit waterfalls.
- Some things in nature, like waterfalls, are beautiful.
- The Devil's Swimming Pool is on the edge of the waterfall.
- The name waterfall says it all – water falls from a high place to a lower place.
- Waterfalls are beautiful.
- We walked next to the river until we came to the waterfall.
waterfall| American Dictionarywaterfrom ariverorstreamfallingover anedgeofrockto a muchlowerlevel (Definition ofwaterfallfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofwaterfallwaterfall Large, power-intensive industries were built close to waterfalls and assigned long-term power contracts with a substantial element of subsidized power supply.From theCambridge English Corpus The alternativewaterfallmodel resembles the spiral model, but has a more linear nature.From theCambridge English Corpus It may instead mean that a bed shock in the form of awaterfallneeds to be included in the analysis.From theCambridge English Corpus The re-engineering methodology proposes awaterfalllife cycle for carrying out the steps of reverse engineering, restructuring and forward engineering.From theCambridge English Corpus We see gravity in action, as with waterfalls and sleigh riding.From theCambridge English Corpus The only significant change in gradient is where the river crosses the graben-bounding fault at awaterfall.From theCambridge English Corpus Nations were like individuals in that they were born, grew, and died, but both were equally like waves or waterfalls, changing physical, not spiritual, forms.From theCambridge English Corpus The word kilk-r- for the sound made by thewaterfallwould commonly be used ai for living creatures only.From theCambridge English Corpus Thewaterfallwill become radiant in the moonlight.From theCambridge English Corpus Darkness is also implicitly connected with invisibility, which contrasts with the visibility of thewaterfallin moonlight.From theCambridge English Corpus Visual micro-counterpoint is everywhere in nature, from a multifaceted cascadingwaterfall, to distinct layers of clouds moving at different speeds in the sky.From theCambridge English Corpus Within time, the channel bed devolved into a series of steps, each characterized by a short, extremely steepwaterfall-like zone of supercritical flow ending in a hydraulic jump.From theCambridge English Corpus We may attend and respond to the sounds of the wind, or the rain, or thewaterfall, but we do not imagine that these phenomena are communicating with us.From theCambridge English Corpus For instance, if one looks for a while at awaterfall, and subsequently fixates a tree at eye-level near thatwaterfall, the tree appears to move upward.From theCambridge English Corpus Most people understand immediately that it has something to do with light; others see it as ripples on water; one asked if it was to become awaterfall.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/waterfall## |