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Definitions: Great Lakes |
Great LakesNoun1. A group of 5 lakes in central North America. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Great LakesSynonym: Regions of the United States. (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes on or near the United States-Canadian border. They are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world, and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system is the largest fresh-water system in the world.
The Great Lakes are (west to east, general direction of water flow):
A smaller sixth lake, Lake St. Clair, is part of the Great Lakes system between Lake Huron and Lake Erie but is not officially one of the Great Lakes.
The lakes are heavily used for transportation, though cargo traffic has decreased considerably in recent years. Storms and reefs are a common threat, and many ships have sunk in these waters. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last major freighter lost on the lakes. The Great Lakes Waterway makes each of the lakes accessible.
Lake Champlain briefly became the sixth Great Lake of the United States on March 6, 1998, when President Clinton signed Senate Bill 927. This bill, which reauthorized the Sea Grant Program, contained a line penned by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) declaring Lake Champlain to be a Great Lake. Not coincidentally, this status allows neighboring states to apply for additional federal research and education funds allocated to these national resources. Following a small uproar (and several New York Times articles), the Great Lake status was rescinded (although Vermont universities continue to receive funds to monitor and study the lake.)
The Saint Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway opened the Great Lakes to ocean-going vessels. However the move to wider ocean-going container ships which do not fit through the locks has limited commerce.
The Great Lakes were formed at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, when the Laurentide Glaciation receded. When this happened, the giant glacier scratched a deep hole within the Earth's surface. The melting also left behind a large amount of meltwater (see Lake Agassiz) which filled up these holes, which were soon to become the Great Lakes. Because of the uneven nature of glacier erosion, some higher hills became Great Lakes islands.Geologic Pre-History
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Great Lakes."
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Movie/TV Titles | The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes (1968) Great Lakes (1942) Flyers of the Great Lakes (1900) | |
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 | Great Lakes. Credit: NASA. |  | The great Mississippi River flood of 1927 Lifeboats transported to Natchez from New England and Great Lakes C&GS officers took part in rescue efforts. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Great Lakes ore carrier in lower right at Sault Ste. Marie. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Fish and Wildlife Service Vessel CISCO. Operated exclusively on the Great Lakes for fisheries research. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Launching party of DAVID STARR JORDAN at Christy Shipyards. Bob Wolf of BCF in center of photo (tallest) and F. E. Carbine, Regional Director of BCF Great Lakes on far right. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Wave clouds associated with air flow over the Appalachian Mountains. Great Lakes show to the west. Photo taken from TIROS VII, pass 4363, camera 1, frame 10. Picture of the Month, "Monthly Weather Review," June 1964. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | GOES image of North America. Weak band of rain on the eastern seaboard. Bright thunderstorm clouds extend along a frontal system from the Central Gulf Coast states through the Midwest to the eastern Great Lakes. Patchy rain clouds are over the Pacific Northwest whle spotty snow clouds blanket the northern Rocky Mountain states. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Rock-handling Process (1908). Measured drawing delineated by Richard K. Anderson, Jr., 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, MI-2, sheet 18 of 34) Like many copper-mining operations on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Quincy Mining Company depended on complex processes such as the one illustrated in this HAER drawing to handle the copper and rock blasted from mines. At the company's No. 2 mine, the Shaft-Rockhouse separated the copper and rock mechanically into three distinct groups: "mass" copper (pure ore), poor rock containing little or no copper ore, and ore-rich rock and chunks larger than twenty inches. Once separated, the mass copper was shipped directly to smelters via the Great Lakes, the poor rock was crushed for use in road construction, and the material in the third group was crushed before shipment to smelters. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Upended after a barrier crash on board USS Sable (IX-81), during pilot training in the Great Lakes, May 1945. Another FM-2 is flying past in top center. Credit: NAVY. |  | Speaking during a visit to the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, on 7 January 1943. He is wearing the Navy Cross medal, awarded for heroism during the Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. Credit: NAVY. |
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Civil Liberties | Swaziland | According to the UNHCR, there are an estimated 1,000 refugees in the country, the majority coming from the Great Lakes region of Africa and Angola. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | At year's end, there were approximately 120,000 Liberian refugees in the country, 2,000 from Sierra Leone, and less than 1,000 from the Great Lakes region of Africa, including Rwanda and Burundi. (references) | |
Mozambique | The UNHCR planned to phase out its operations in the country by the end of 2000; however, the increasing number of refugees, especially from the Great Lakes region of Africa, prevented this from happening. (references) | |
Economic History | Burundi | Burundi is an important factor in regional stability in the Great Lakes region. (references) |
Tanzania | Most of the product is imported through relief agencies for the refugees in the Great Lakes zone of central Africa. (references) | |
Canada | The two countries also share in operation of the St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. (references) | |
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| Canada | Great Lakes Power Inc. | USA | Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Great Lakes, IL |
Expressions using "Great Lakes": Great Lakes Region ♦ great Lakes State ♦ The Great Lakes. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Great Lakes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Udviklingsbanken for staterne omkring de store søer (Great Lakes States Development Bank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | regio van de grote meren (Great Lakes Region). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Région des Grands Lacs (Great Lakes Region), Communauté économique des pays des Grands Lacs (Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries, Great Lakes Economic Community), CEPGL (Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries, Great Lakes Economic Community), Banque de développement des Etats des Grands Lacs (Great Lakes States Development Bank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Region der Großen Seen (Great Lakes Region). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Tράπεζα Aνάπτυξης των ολιτειών των Mεγάλων Λιμνών (Great Lakes States Development Bank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | regione dei Grandi Laghi (Great Lakes Region). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatgray akeslay Comunidade Económica dos Países dos Grandes Lagos (GLEC, Great Lakes Economic Community), CEPGL (GLEC, Great Lakes Economic Community). (various references) Comunidad Económica de Países de los Grandes Lagos (GLEC, Great Lakes Economic Community), CEPGL (GLEC, Great Lakes Economic Community), Banco de Desarrollo de los Estados de los Grandes Lagos (Great Lakes States Development Bank). (various references) büyük göller, amerika-kanada sınırındaki beş göl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-k-l-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: agrestal, leakages, stealage. | |
-3 letters: aerates, alegars, eaglets, elaters, ergates, galeate, galeres, gastral, gastrea, gelates, karates, keglers, kelters, kestrel, laagers, largest, leakage, leakers, legates, realest, regales, reglets, relates, reslate, restage, retakes, segetal, skelter, stalker, stealer, talkers, teargas, telegas. | |
-4 letters: aerate, agates, aglare, aglets, agrees, akelas, alates, alegar, alerts, altars, alters, aretes, argals, argles, artels. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 65 61 74 4C 61 6B 65 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01001100 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r e a t   L a k e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 0065 0061 0074 004C 0061 006B 0065 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)418471678624667777185 |
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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation; Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish; Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, شخص إيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, الإيطالي, إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish; Turks, turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish; |
