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GLACIER BURST

Specialty Definition: GLACIER BURST

DomainDefinition

Geography

Sudden, often annual, release of meltwater from a glacier or glacier-dammed lake, sometimes resulting in a catastrophic flood, formed by melting of a drainage channel or buoyant lifting of ice by water or by subglacial volcanic activity. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: GLACIER BURST

Language Translations for "GLACIER BURST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

isløsning (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, outburst), isbrud (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, outburst). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gletsjerstroom (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, outburst). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

jäätikön hyökytulva (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, jökulhaup, outburst). (various references)

   

French

  

débâcle glaciaire (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood). (various references)

   

German

  

Gletscherflut (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, jökulhaup, outburst). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rottura del ghiacciaio (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, jökulhaup, outburst). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acierglay urstbay

   

Portuguese

  

torrente glaciar (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, jökulhaup, outburst). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

riada glaciárica (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, jökulhaup, outburst), deshielo glaciar (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, jökulhaup, outburst). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

jökellopp (glacier flood, glacier outburst flood, jökulhaup, outburst). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GLACIER BURST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-i-l-r-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: burglaries, curtailers, curtilages, graticules, lubricates, rubricates.

-3 letters: blurriest, brutalise, carburets, carburise, catbriers, curtailer, curtilage, graticule, ligatures, lubricate, reburials, reticular, rubricate, ruralites, scrutable, turbaries.

-4 letters: agrestic, airburst, arbiters, arbuscle, articles, auricles, baluster, barguest, blastier, blurters, bruiters, bulgiest, burglars, burliest, burriest, calibers, calibres, carburet, catbrier, cigarets, crustier, curliest, curtails, ergastic, erratics, garblers, gestical, gestural, gilberts.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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