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Definitions: Landslide |
LandslideNoun1. An overwhelming electoral victory; "Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide". 2. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "landslide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | The downslope movement of a soil mass. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | An abrupt movement of soil and bedrock downhill in response to gravity. Landslides can be triggered by an earthquake or other natural causes. Undersea landslides can cause tsunamis. (references) |
| The downslope movement of soil and/or rock. (references) | |
| Downslope movement of rock, soil, and mud. (references) | |
Mining | A general term covering a wide variety of mass-movement landforms and processes involving the downslope transport, under gravitational influence, of soil and rock material en masse. Usually the displaced material moves over a relatively confined zone or surface of shear. The wide range of sites and structures, and of material properties affecting resistance to shear, result in a great range of landslide morphology, rates, patterns of movement, and scale. Landsliding is usually preceded, accompanied, and followed by perceptible creep along the surface of sliding and/or within the slide mass. Terminology designating landslide types generally refers to the landform as well as the process responsible for it; e.g., rockfall, translational slide, block glide, avalanche, mudflow, liquefaction slide, and slump. Syn:landsliding; slide;landslip. (references) |
Public Administration | The downslope movement of rock and/or earth masses occurring primarily along a slide surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A massive and more or less rapid flow of soil and rock, causing damage in its path. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes, and shallow debris flows, see flow. Although gravity acting on an over steepened slope is the primary reason for a landslide, there are other contributing factors:
Similarly, ice floes can form in rivers that are clogged with ice, but are generally much slower moving. Nonetheless, they can generate forces strong enough to collapse bridges.
An avalanche is similar in mechanism to landslide and it involves a large amount of ice, snow and rock falling quickly down the side of a mountain. Usually the ice builds in cornices or forms over a weaker layer of snow, creating the danger of an avalanche.
A pyroclastic flow is caused by a collapsing cloud of ash, poisonous gas and hot rocks from a volcanic explosion that moves rapidly down an erupting volcano.
First-draft text taken from USGS fact sheet, public domain
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A landslide is also a near-unanimous election for a candidate in a vote, which has won by an overwhleming majority over to other candidates. Landslides sometimes occur when one candidate is perceived as much superior to the rest, or by imperfect voting methods. See bloc voting, and the unanimous 2002 re-election of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, criticized by many on the outside as unfair.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Landslide."
Synonym: LandslideSynonym: landslip (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: landslip (public administration, geography). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Descent | Avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide. |
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Crosswords: Landslide |
| English words defined with "landslide": earth up ♦ land up ♦ mudslide ♦ rockslide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "landslide": causing a collapse or landslide, circular slip ♦ debris flow ♦ earthflow, earth-pillar, erosion column ♦ fairy chimney ♦ hoodoo column ♦ rain pillar ♦ sand pinacle, slide rock, small landslide ♦ Volcanic landslide. (references) |
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Screenplays | In the middle of a landslide. (Kim Possible; writing credit: Julie DuFine; Madellaine Paxson) | |
Lyrics | Caught beneath the landslide ("Champagne Supernova"; performing artist: Oasis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Landslide (1937) | |
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 | Landslide scar at Hanning Bay C&GS surveys followed Good Friday Alaska earthquake of 1964 Earthquake triggered landslide in Hanning Bay Investigations off of HODGSON.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Landslide blocks road.Credit: D. Huntington. |
 | Road damage from landslide.Credit: D. Huntington. |  | The Great Culebra Cut with Gold Hill, showing landslide in the foreground, Panama Canal.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Barrage; deluge; flood; inundation; landslide; landslip; snowslide; torrent; building; intensify. |
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Business | This landslide victory is regarded as a testimony to the degree to which he and his product are trusted by the Czech populace. (references) | |
Economic History | Slovakia | In the June 1990 elections, Civic Forum and Public Against Violence won landslide victories. (references) |
Seychelles | Wavel Ramkalawan and once again President Rene and his SPPF party enjoyed a landslide victory. (references) | |
Lesotho | Multiparty elections were then held in which the BCP ascended to power with a landslide victory. (references) | |
Political Economy | Zambia | Multi-party elections were held in October 1991, and again in November 1996. The Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) won landslide victories in both elections. (references) |
Iran | Reformers and moderates won a landslide victory in the February 2000 Majles election, and constitute a majority of that body; however, the Council of Guardians and other elements within the Government blocked much of the early reform legislation passed by the Majles. (references) | |
Political Rights | Iran | Mohammad Khatami, a former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance who was impeached in 1992 by the Majles for "liberalism" and "negligence," was reelected President in a landslide, with 77 percent of the vote. (references) |
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| "Landslide" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.63% of the time. "Landslide" is used about 146 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 (singular) | 98.63% | 144 | 26,339 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.68% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 146 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "landslide": causing a collapse or landslide ♦ landslide majority ♦ landslide victory ♦ small landslide. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "landslide": unity-landslide. | |
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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 "landslide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | aardverskuiwing. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lumë votash, shkarje toke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبين (pronounced, revealer), ساحق (cracking, crusher, crushing, great, massive, out and out, overpowering, overwhelming, rank, reducible, shattering, sweeping, swinging), إنهيار التربة, أغلبية ساحقة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | срутване на почвата (landfall, landslip), свличане на почвата (landfall, landslip, slump), голяма изборна победа. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 山崩. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sesuv pùdy (land slide, land slip, landslip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | solifluktion (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep), skred (debris avalanche, landslip, mudslide, slide, sloughing), jordskred (cavy, debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, mud slide, mudslide, slide, slip, slough, soil creep), jordflydning (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aardverschuiving (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, mudslide, slide, slip, soil creep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | terŝoviĝo, grunda disfalo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | زمین لغزه , ریزش خاک کوه کنارجاده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vyörymä (debris avalanche, landslip, mudslide, slide), maanvyörymä (debris avalanche, landslip, mudslide, slide, slough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | glissement de terrain (land slip, landslip), éboulement (landslip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Erdrutsch (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, mud slide, mudslide, slide, slip, soil creep), Bergrutsch (debris avalanche, landslip, mudslide, slide), rutsch (fall, outing, rockfall, slide, slip, swing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατολίσθισις γαιών (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep), κατολίσθησις (debris avalanche, landslip, mudslide, slide, sloughing), κατολίσθηση εδάφους (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep), καθίζηση έδαφουσ, ερπυσμός εδάφους (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep), ολίσθηση έδαφουσ, ολίσθηση του εδάφους (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפולת "רים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | földcsuszamlás (landfall, landslip, run of ground, slide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | frana (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, mudslide, slide, slip, soil creep), franamento (causing a collapse or landslide, collapsing, debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, mudslide, slide, slip, soil creep, well-bore caving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 土 崩れ , 地辷り , 山津波 , 山崩れ , 崖崩れ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がけくずれ, どしゃくずれ, やまくずれ, やまつなみ, じすべり (landfall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사태. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skyrrey thallooin (landslip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | skred (avalanche). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andslidelay resvalamento de terrenos (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep), paisagista (landscape painter), escorregamento de terras (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, mudslide, slide, slip, soil creep), escorregamento (debris avalanche, flowing, landslip, mudslide, skidding, slide, sliding, slip, slippage, slipping, spinning), desmoronamento (collapse, landslip, raveling, sinking, slide, unraveling, washout), deslizamento do terreno (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep), deslizamento de terrenos (debris avalanche, landslip, mudslide, slide), deslizamento de terras (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, slip, soil creep), avalanche (avalanche, avalanche effect, debris avalanche, landslip, mudslide, slide, snow slide, snow slip, valleyward snow), aluimento de terrenos (debris avalanche, landslip, mudslide, slide). (various references) victorie rãsunãtoare (resounding victory), triumf (hit, jubilation, palm, palm tree, triumph), majoritate zdrobitoare de voturi, alunecare de teren (heave, land slip). (various references) обвал (avalanche, cave-in, collapse). (various references) ogromna većina, odronjavanje, klizište (landfall, landslip, slide). (various references) desprendimiento de tierras (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, mudslide, slide, slip, soil creep), corrimiento de tierras (debris avalanche, earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, mudslide, slide, slip, soil creep). (various references) jordskred (earth creep, earth flow, earth slide, land slip, landslip, slip, slough, soil creep), skred (avalanche, debris avalanche, landslip, mud slide, mudslide, slide, sloughing, slumping), ras (breed, family, landslip, race, slide, strain, subspecies). (various references) toprak kayması (creep, landslip, slide, slip, slump, slumping), heyelan (avalanche, landslip, slide), göçme (emigration, landslip, migration). (various references) обвал (collapse, rockfall), зсув. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "landslide": landslides. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "landslide" (pronounced la"ndslī'd or la"nslī'd) |
| 4 | -s l ī' d | backslide. |
| 3 | -l ī' d | halide, multiplied. |
| 4 | -s l ī' d | backslide. |
| 3 | -l ī' d | halide, multiplied. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-l-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: islanded, landside, landslid. | |
-2 letters: ainsell, dallied, dallies, dandies, dandles, denials, dialled, dindles, laddies, sallied, slidden, snailed. | |
-3 letters: addles, aisled, aliens, alined, alines, allied, allies, dalles, dandle, deasil, dedans, denial, desand, dialed, dilled, dindle, elains, elands, ideals, island, laddie, ladens, ladies, ladled, ladles, landed, lianes, lienal, lineal, nailed, naleds, nilled, sadden, saddle, sailed, sained, saline, sanded, sendal, sidled, silane. | |
-4 letters: addle, aided, aides, ailed, aisle, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, aside, dales, deads, deals, deans, dedal, deils, delis, dells, dials, dills, dined, dines, elain, eland, elans, ideal, ideas, idled, idles, ileal, isled, laded, laden, lades, ladle, lands, lanes, lased, leads, leans, lends, lenis, liane, liens, lined, lines, lisle, nails, naled, nidal, nided, nides, nills, saned, sedan, sided, sidle, slain, slide, snail, snell, snide. | |
-5 letters: adds, aide, aids, ails, ains, ales, alls, ands, anes, anil, anis, dads, dais, dale, dals, dead, deal, dean, deil, deli, dell, dels, deni, dens, dial, died, diel, dies, dill, dine, dins, elan, elds, ells, ends, idea, ides, idle, ilea, ills, isle, lade, lads, laid, lain, land, lane, lase, lead, leal, lean, leas, leis, lend, lens, lids, lied, lien, lies, line, lins, nail, nide, nill, nils, sade, sadi, said, sail, sain, sale, sall, sand, sane, seal, sell, send, sial, side, sild, sill, sine, sled, slid, sned. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-i-l-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: landladies, landslides. | |
+2 letters: disannulled. | |
+4 letters: disenthralled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6E 64 73 6C 69 64 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -. -.. ... .-.. .. -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110011 01101100 01101001 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a n d s l i d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006E 0064 0073 006C 0069 0064 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466780708578757071 |
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