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Definition: Badlands |
BadlandsNoun1. Deeply eroded barren land. 2. An eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | Minutely dissected topography developed by rill wash on a series of weak sedimentary rock of deposit of unconsolitated sands, clays, and gravels usually presenting marked differences in the resistence of successive layers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A region nearly devoid of vegetation where erosion has produced, usually in unconsolidated or poorly cemented clays and silts, a dense and intricate drainage pattern with short steep slopes and sharp crests andpinnacles. Specif., the Badlands of the Dakotas. (references) |
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see also Badlands_(movie)Badlands are a type of arid terrain with clay-rich soil that has been extensively eroded by wind and water. Canyons, ravines, gullies, hoodoos and other such geological forms are common in badlands.
Some of the most famous fossil beds are found in badlands, where the forces of erosion have exposed the sedimentary layers and the lack of vegetation cover makes surveying relatively easy.
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Badlands is a 1973 film which told a fictional story based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril-Ann Fugate, in 1958. Directed by Terrence Malick from his own script, it stars Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek and Warren Oates.The film was included in the National Film Registry.
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Synonym: BadlandsSynonym: Bad Lands (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Badlands |
| English words defined with "badlands": rock wren ♦ Salpinctes obsoletus. (references) |
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Lyrics | Out to the badlands of New Mexico ("El Paso"; performing artist: Marty Robbins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Badlands (1973) Law of the Badlands (1951) Across the Badlands (1950) Oklahoma Badlands (1948) Rustlers of the Badlands (1945) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wind and water ersoion take their toll on sandstone in Badlands National Park, SD. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | The lava beds in the Badlands Wilderness Study Area. OR 5-21. Credit: Unknown. |
 | A road in the lava beds in the Badlands Wilderness Study Area. OR 5-21. Credit: Unknown. |  | Badlands National Park. Credit: NPS. |
 | Badlands along highway between Great Falls and Havre, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Badlands in the Panamint Range. Death Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Abondoned farm south of South Heart, North Dakota. Little Badlands in background. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | McCone County, Montana. Coal mine on the edge of the badlands. The operator lives in sheep wagon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Badlands of South Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Badlands. Williams County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Badlands3" by Paige Foster Commentary: "Badlands National Park in South Dakota." |
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| "Badlands" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 63.83% of the time. "Badlands" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 63.83% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (plural) | 36.17% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "badlands": Badlands National Park. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "badlands"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Tokë Jo Pjellore. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Неплодородни Области. (various references) | |
German | Ödland (barren). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Terméketlen Vidék (barren). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adlandsbay.(various references) | |
Russian | бесплодные земли, Бесплодные Земли. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pustinjski predeo. (various references) | |
Spanish | Tierras Yermas, Páramos. (various references) | |
Swedish | Ofruktbart Land. (various references) | |
Thai | ที่รกร้างว่างเปล่า. (various references) | |
Turkish | Verimsiz Topraklar, Çorak Arazi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Місцевість Уражена Ерозією, Неродючий Грунт. (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Badlands" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adland, Baland, balanos, Bidandi, Biglands, Bodoland. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "badlands" (pronounced ba"dla'ndz) |
| 6 | -d l a' n d z | Midlands, woodlands. |
| 5 | -l a' n d z | farmlands, grasslands, hinterlands, homelands, lowlands, marshlands, moorlands, Timberlands, wetlands. |
| 4 | -a' n d z | armbands, farmhands, Firebrands, forehands, handstands, headbands, newsstands, quicksands, reprimands, spacebands, stagehands. |
| 3 | -n d z | abounds, almonds, amends, ands, ascends, astounds, attends, contends, corresponds, backgrounds, bands, battlegrounds, befriends, behinds, bends, binds, blends, blinds, blondes, blonds, bloodhounds, bonds, bookends, bounds, boyfriends, brands, bunds, campgrounds, commands, commends, compounds, confounds, defends, demands, depends, descends, diamonds, dividends, Docklands, ends, errands, expands, expounds, extends, fairgrounds, fends, fiends, finds, flatlands, friends, fronds, funds, girlfriends, glands, grands, grinds, grounds, hands, Highlands, hinds, Hollands, hounds, husbands, intends, islands, kinds, lands, legends, lends, ligands, masterminds, Meadowlands, milliseconds, minds, misunderstands, mounds, nanoseconds, offends, overspends, playgrounds, ponds, portends, pounds, pretends, rands, rebounds, recommends, refunds, reminds, responds, rinds, rounds, sands, seconds, sends, sounds, spends, stands, stipends, strands, surrounds, suspends, tends, thousands, transcends, trends, turnarounds, understands, uplands, vagabonds, wands, weekends, wends, winds, withstands, woodwinds, wounds. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: badland, sanddab. | |
-2 letters: alands, sandal. | |
-3 letters: aland, alans, albas, anlas, baals, balas, balds, balsa, banal, bands, basal, bland, dadas, lands, nadas, nasal, salad. | |
-4 letters: aals, abas, adds, alan, alas, alba, albs, anal, anas, ands, ansa, baal, baas, bads, bald, bals, band, bans, dabs, dada, dads, dals, labs, lads, land, nabs, nada, sand, slab. | |
-5 letters: aal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-d-l-n-s" | |
+3 letters: bandleaders, sandblasted. | |
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