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| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Jagged pinnacle, sharp ridge, needle-like tower, or irregularly shaped block of ice on the surface of a glacier, commonly among intersecting crevasses, as on an icefall, formed where the glacier is periodically broken as it passes over a steep slope. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_e, serac; pruina. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Serac (1982) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Serac formation, Illecillewaet Glacier, Selkirk Mts., B.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The major French manufacturers of packaging machinery are Arcil, Cermex, Hema Technologies, Kalix, Meca-Plastic, MEE, PMA, Remy Equipement, Sabatier, Serac, Sidel, Thimon, and Zalkin. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SERAC": serac-edged. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
serac | 19 |
cycle serac shorts | 2 |
cycling serac shorts | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SERAC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | леден връх на глетчер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冰" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | løsreven isblok fra gletscher (glacier fall), gletschernål (glacier fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | serac (glacier fall), ijspyramide (glacier fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jäätikköputous (glacier fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sérac, cascade de glacier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gletschergefälle (glacier fall), Gletscherfall (glacier fall), Gletscherabfluß (glacier fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυραμίδες πάγου (glacier fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | seracchi (glacier fall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eracsay cascata de gelo (glacier fall). (various references) cascada de glaciar (glacier fall). (various references) séracs (glacier fall). (various references) buz bacası. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SERAC": seracs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SERAC": horserace, horseraces, tesseract, tesseracts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: acres, cares, carse, escar, races, scare. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aces, acre, arcs, ares, arse, care, cars, case, ears, eras, race, rase, recs, scar, sear, sera. | |
-2 letters: ace, arc, are, ars, car, ear, era, ers, ras, rec, res, sac, sae, sea, sec, ser. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, as, er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arches, arecas, braces, cabers, cadres, caesar, cagers, caners, capers, carers, caress, carets, caries, carles, carses, cartes, carves, casern, caster, caters, causer, cavers, cedars, cerias, cesura, chares, chaser, clears, coarse, crakes, cranes, crapes, crases, crates, craves, crazes, creaks, creams, crease, creasy, ericas, escarp, escars, eschar, facers, farces, graces, lacers, macers, nacres, pacers, parsec, racers, rances, reacts, recaps, recast, sacker, sacred, saucer, scaler, scarce, scared, scarer, scares, scarey, sclera, scrape, screak, scream, search, secpar, seracs, spacer, traces. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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