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DRIFT SCRATCH

Specialty Definition: DRIFT SCRATCH

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Geography

One of the series of long, delicate, finely cut, commonly straight and parallel furrows or lines inscribed on a bed rock surface by the rasping and rubbing of rock fragments embedded at the base of a moving glacier, usually oriented in the direction of ice movement. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DRIFT SCRATCH

Language Translations for "DRIFT SCRATCH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

skurestribe (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gletsjerkras (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

uurre (furrow, groove). (various references)

   

French

  

strie glaciaire, marque glaciaire. (various references)

   

German

  

glaziale Schürfmarken (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), glaziale Kratzer (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γραμμή προστριβής παγετώνα (striation), απόξεση παγετώνα (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Italian

  

striature glaciali (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iftdray atchscray

   

Portuguese

  

estrias glaciares (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

grieta glaciar (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation), fisura glaciar (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

räffla (chamfer, channel, furrow, groove, knurl, mill, rib, rifle, rifling), isräffla (glacial scratch, glacial scratching, glacial stria, glacial striation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DRIFT SCRATCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-f-h-i-r-r-s-t-t"

-3 letters: trictracs.

-4 letters: carritch, chartist, distract, trictrac.

-5 letters: arctics, astrict, athirst, catfish, cattish, drastic, fattish, ratfish, rattish, ricracs, ritards, scraich, scratch, tachist, tactics, tartish, thrifts, tictacs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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