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Definition: Talus |
TalusNoun1. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff. 2. The bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "talus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A protection at the downstream end of a weir, fall, etc. , consisting of blocks of concrete or masonry or stones. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Detritus accumulated at foot of a steep slope. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Accumulation of sliderock. The debris is typically angular. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An accumulation of angular debris deposited by gravity on a slope. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An accumulation of rock debris at the foot of a cliff or steep slope. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geological | Pile of rock rubble below a cliff or chute. Talus slope is a common usage although it is redundant because the term "talus" actually includes the concept of a slope. (references) |
Health | The second largest of the tarsal bones and occupies the middle and upper part of the tarsus. (references) |
Mining | Rock fragments of any size or shape (usually coarse and angular) derived from and lying at the base of a cliff or very steep, rocky slope. Also, the outward sloping and accumulated heap or mass of such loose broken rock, considered as a unit, and formed chiefly by gravitational falling,rolling, or sliding. See also:scree. (references) |
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Synonyms: TalusSynonyms: anklebone (n), astragal (n), astragalus (n), scree (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Obliquity | Acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus averni. |
Pulverulence | Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Talus |
| English words defined with "talus": ankle, ankle joint, articulatio talocruralis ♦ mortise joint ♦ Tali. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "talus": fan apex ♦ Munera ♦ placer mine ♦ Radegund ♦ slide rock, Subtalar Joint ♦ talus creep, Tarsal Bones. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "talus": Tassel. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Talus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (bank), German (talus), Latin (ankle, ankle bone, anklebone, knucklebone, talon, talus, the ankle), Swedish (scree). |
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 | Cemented ash and talus at a depth of 755 m off Hawaii. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Sponges and crab on a basalt talus slope. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The exterior talus offered an inclined plane for attack |
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| "Talus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Talus" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "talus": continental talus ♦ talus slope. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "talus": pro-talus. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
talus | 45 | talus weine | 3 |
pauliina talus | 31 | jefferson talus | 3 |
paulina talus | 18 | raleigh talus | 3 |
fracture talus | 14 | berghaus talus | 2 |
talus bone | 9 | avascular necrosis talus | 2 |
marmot talus | 5 | the north face talus footprint | 2 |
talus wine | 5 | girl rock scout talus | 2 |
north face talus | 5 | fractured talus | 2 |
group manugistics solution talus | 4 | talus slope | 2 |
issaquah talus | 4 | talus valgus | 2 |
vasque talus | 4 | dissecans osteochondritis talus | 2 |
ankle talus | 4 | vertical talus | 2 |
congenital talus vertical | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "talus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skarpat (escarp, escarpment, scarp), pjerrësi (cocking, declination, declivity, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, knee, pitch, ramp, recliner, scarp, set, shearing, site, slant, slope, splay, tilt, trim), faqe e pjerrët. (various references) | |
Arabic | كعيية, كعب (cube, foot, heel), منحدر (aslope, chute, decline, declivity, descending, descent, dipped, downgrade, downhill, downward, inclined, slanted, slope, sloped, sloping), نوع من النبات, عظم الكاحل (ankle bone). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | склон (ascent, decline, declivity, descent, downhill, drop, flank, hang, hanging, hillside, inclination, incline, pitch, pitching, ramp, side, slant, slope, versant), сипей (scree), глезенна кост, глезен (ankle, sissified, sissy, skittish, spoilt, tarsus). (various references) | |
Danish | ydre skraaning (outer slope), ur (clock, watch), skråning (slope), jordskråning (slope), indre skraaning (inner slope), collumium (colluvium), beskyttelsesrip-rap (flexible apron, placed riprap). (various references) | |
Dutch | talud (slope), puinkegel (scree), puinhelling (scree), puin (debris, rubbish, rubble), glooiing (acclivity, hillside, slope), colluvium (colluvium), buitentalud (outer slope), buitenbeloop (outer slope), bodembekleding van zetwerk (flexible apron, placed riprap), binnentalud (escarpment, inner slope, scarp), binnenberm (inner slope), binnenbeloop (inner slope), beloop (slope). (various references) | |
Finnish | talus (flexible apron, placed riprap), rakka (block field, block sea, blockmeer, chaos of rocks, detrital rocks, felsenmeer, fragmental rocks, mountain-top detritus, scree, stone field), louhikko (rocks), kivikko (stony soil). (various references) | |
French | tapis de protection souple, talus intérieur, talus extérieur, talus d'éboulis (talus slope), talus, zone d'éboulis (talus slope), pente pierreuse, pente d'éboulis (talus slope), colluvium, colluvion, astragale, éboulis de pente (talus material), éboulis (talus slope). (various references) | |
German | Talus, Geröllhalde (scree slope), Böschung (bank, embankment), Böschung des Gehängeschuttes (scree), bewegliche Boeschungsabdeckung (flexible apron, placed riprap), Binnenberm (inner slope), Blockschutt (scree), Colluvium (colluvium), aeussere Boeschung (outer slope), Gehängeschutt (scree, scree slope, talus material), Hangschutt (colluvium, scree), innere Boeschung (inner slope), Packwerk (flexible apron, placed riprap), Pflaster (adhesive bandage, cobbles, pavement, plaster, plasters, road surface, sop, sticking plaster), Schutthalde (rubble tip, scree slope), Schutthang (scree, scree slope, talus slope), Schuttkegel (scree), Deckwerk (flexible apron, mattress pegged to the ground, placed riprap). (various references) | |
Greek | κεκλιμένο μέτωπο από επίχωση (slope), κολλουβιακές αποθέσεις (colluvium), σωρός καταρρεύσαντος χώματος (scree), σωρός χωμάτων (colluvium), συντρίμματα (debris), πρανές προσχωμάτων (scree), πρανές (glacis, slope), εύκαμπτος προστατευτικός τάπης (flexible apron, placed riprap), εσωτερικό πρανές (inner slope), εξωτερικό πρανές (outer slope), λιθών (moraine, scree), αστράγαλοσ (ankle, astragalus). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שפיע, 'ל אב ים לר'לי צוק. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ugrócsont (astragalus), hajlás (bend, camber, flexion, hang, incline, lean, ply, rise, splay, sweep, synclinal, tilt). (various references) | |
Italian | scarpata interna (inner slope), scarpata esterna (outer slope), scarpata (escarp, escarpment, scarp), scarpa (shoe), pendio (acclivity, addictiveness, ascent, descent, fall, hang, hill, hillside, incline, rise, slope), ghiaione (scree), falda di detrito (scree, scree slope, talus slope), falda detritica (scree, scree slope, talus slope), detrito di pendio (scree), detrito di falda (colluvium, scree, scree slope, talus material), colluvium (colluvium). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 距骨 (ancle bone). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょ"つ (anklebone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alustay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | talude (embankment, escarpment, frith, glacis, ramp, rampart, scarp, slope). (various references) | |
Russian | таранная кость (astragalus), осыпь, отвалочный материал, дилювий (diluvium). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nagib zida, kost u stopalu. (various references) | |
Spanish | talud interior (inner slope), talud exterior (outer slope), talud (bank, batter, battering, scree, slope), escarpe (escarp), derrubio (scouring), colubión (colluvium), cantizal (scree). (various references) | |
Swedish | talus (scree), språngben, slänt (slope), eftergivligt släntskydd (flexible apron, placed riprap). (various references) | |
Thai | กระ"ูกข้อเท้า (anklebone). (various references) | |
Turkish | yokuşun dibindeki kaya parçaları, meyil (affection, aptitude, bias, cant, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, liking, obliquity, penchant, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), ayak bileği (ankle, tarsus), aşık kemiği (anklebone, dib, huckle-bone, knucklebone). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | talus, talutium. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | talu. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "talus": taluses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "talus": tantalus. (additional references) | |
Words containing "talus": tantaluses. (additional references) | |
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"Talus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atlu, dalus, tabus, talas, talis, talos, talqs, talu, talum, tapus, tatus, taus, tauz, Tavua, tealos, telos, telus, tolus, Tralos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sault. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: alts, last, lats, lust, salt, saul, slat, taus, utas. | |
-2 letters: als, alt, las, lat, sal, sat, sau, tas, tau, uta, uts. | |
-3 letters: al, as, at, la, ta, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: adults, cutlas, faults, flatus, gaults, lustra, salute, saults, sultan, taluks, tussal, ultras, vaults. | |
+2 letters: ablauts, amulets, assault, auklets, auldest, austral, buttals, crustal, curtals, cutlass, dualist, eluants, eluates, estrual, fistula, flaunts, halitus, hatfuls, hatsful, lawsuit, layouts, locusta, loquats, lustral, luxates, muletas, mutuals, outlast, outlaws, outlays, outsail, pulsant, pulsate, rituals, saluted, saluter, salutes, spatula, squatly, sublate, sulcate, sulfate, sultana, sultans, sutural, tabulis, talcous, talcums, talukas, taluses, thallus, thulias, tissual, torulas, tuladis, ultimas, umlauts, valutas, vatfuls, walnuts. | |
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