desert
沙漠,荒漠,沙漠化,荒废
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Definitions
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- : a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: The Sahara is a vast sandy desert.
- : any area in which few forms of life can exist because of lack of water, permanent frost, or absence of soil.
- : an area of the ocean in which it is believed no marine life exists.
- : any unsettled area between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains thought to be unsuitable for human habitation.
- : any place lacking in something: The town was a cultural desert.
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- : of, relating to, or like a desert:a desert landscape.
- : occurring, living, or flourishing in the desert: a desert tribe; a desert palm.
- : designed or suitable for wear in the desert, as cool, protective clothing: a big, wide-brimmed desert hat.
Phrases
- desert a sinking ship
- just deserts
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Matthews calls the Yakima Valley site in Washington state “desert in the shadow of Mount Rainier.”
By late March, when ski season would normally be in full swing, hotels were empty, streets deserted.
It was hard to miss the dramatic, toothy peaks that spike up in the middle of the Nevada desert just south of that route.
State government officials have not lifted the mandate that would allow them to open indoors, so they decided to take their operation outside — into the desert.
Earth is thought to have been born in an interplanetary desert, too close to the sun for water ice to survive.
Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.
Desert Golfing is the distillation of Angry Birds into its purest essence.
Desert Golfing is the gaming equivalent of putting TV on in the background.
If life gets in the way, Desert Golfing totally understands.
But an ad-supported version of Desert Golfing was impossible.
After we had passed over this desert, we found several garisons to defend the caravans from the violence of the Tartars.
The leaves were motionless, the river crept past without a murmur, the dark hills rose out of the distant desert like a wave.
The author of the life of St. Francis Xavier, asserts, that "by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island."
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.
The dining room was for the souls of the locals, who could admire the desert more conveniently than find a good meal.