promontory
岬角,海角,海角区,海角地带
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plural prom·on·to·ries.
- : a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- : a bluff, or part of a plateau, overlooking a lowland.
- : Anatomy. a prominent or protuberant part.
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Promontory is something else, former regulators who help banks comply with—and predict— what their regulators do.
Have the president drive in the golden fence post at Promontory Point II and sign the amnesty right there.
One of the woods of this forest, advancing far into the inundated valley, formed a sort of promontory above the sheet of water.
"That sandy promontory on the extremity of which stands Fortress Monroe," he answered.
The promontory Trogilium itself may be considered as a foot of the mountain Mycale.
On the coast of the continent opposite to the Myndian territory is Astypalæa a promontory, and Zephyrium.
Above Soli in the interior is Limenia a city, then follows the promontory of Crommyon.