glacial 的定义
- of or relating to glaciers or ice sheets.
- resulting from or associated with the action of ice or glaciers: glacial terrain.
- characterized by the presence of ice in extensive masses or glaciers.
- bitterly cold; icy: a glacial winter wind.
- happening or moving extremely slowly: The work proceeded at a glacial pace.
- icily unsympathetic or immovable: a glacial stare; glacial indifference.
- Chemistry. of, relating to, or tending to develop into icelike crystals: glacial phosphoric acid.
glacial 近义词
extremely cold
unfriendly
更多glacial例句
- The satellite images seem to point clearly to such a landslide, rather than a typical glacial lake overflow, Shugar says.
- This research could provide a key piece of evidence in that case, by directly connecting emissions to the growth of the glacial lake.
- The ice here is effectively the remnants of what were probably more extensive glacial structures in the past.
- The astonishingly fast development of safe and effective vaccines is being stymied by the glacial pace of actual vaccinations while 3,000 Americans die each day.
- Researchers found that microbes collected from Icelandic glacial streams rich in dissolved hydrogen were better adapted to use the gas than those from a Canadian glacial stream where hydrogen was less plentiful.
- Many thousands of years ago, glacial floods swept through the area and carved out the sloping sides of the current grounds.
- “Americans will never drive a small car,” said the man from GM with glacial confidence.
- Folks are taking cold showers already, and the weather soon will be glacial.
- My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.
- For a church that moves at a glacial pace, the murmurings of Bishops like Tobin are lightning fast and boldly subversive.
- Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.
- But scorn is far more volcanic than glacial and a poor barrier between sex and judgment.
- Let dry, apply a cover-glass, and run glacial acetic acid underneath it.
- Still water runs deep, they say; and a glacial cap may conceal subterranean fires.
- Further study will reveal the fact that the difference is due to the lack of oxidation in the case of the glacial detritus.