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Deutsche Kontinentverschiebung Synonyme

Englische continental drift; land shifting; creep of continents Synonyme

Kontinentverschiebung Definition

Continental
(a.) Of or pertaining to a continent.
Continental
(a.) Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England
Continental
(a.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War
Continental
(n.) A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.
Creep
(v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile
Creep
(v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
Creep
(v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner
Creep
(v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced
Creep
(v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility
Creep
(v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
Creep
(v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body
Creep
(v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
Creep
(n.) The act or process of creeping.
Creep
(n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
Creep
(n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides
Drift
(n.) A driving
Drift
(n.) The act or motion of drifting
Drift
(n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven
Drift
(n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like
Drift
(n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along
Drift
(n.) Anything driven at random.
Drift
(n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water
Drift
(n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
Drift
(n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Drift
(n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
Drift
(n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.
Drift
(n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it
Drift
(n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
Drift
(n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
Drift
(n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft
Drift
(n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Drift
(n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
Drift
(n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
Drift
(n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
Drift
(n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Drift
(n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
Drift
(v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air
Drift
(v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind
Drift
(v. i.) to make a drift
Drift
(v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
Drift
(v. t.) To drive into heaps
Drift
(v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
Drift
(a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted
Land
(n.) Urine. See Lant.
Land
(n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth
Land
(n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
Land
(n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality
Land
(n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people.
Land
(n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands.
Land
(n.) The ground or floor.

continental drift; land shifting; creep of continents Bedeutung

land reform a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action)
crawl crawling
creep
creeping
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body, a crawl was all that the injured man could manage, the traffic moved at a creep
shift
shifting
the act of moving from one place to another, his constant shifting disrupted the class
farming land agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life, farming is a strenuous life, there's no work on the land any more
land development making an area of land more useful
land-office business very large and profitable volume of commercial activity
corncrake
land rail
Crex crex
common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields
creep a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
drift
heading
gallery
a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine, they dug a drift parallel with the vein
drift net a large fishnet supported by floats, it drifts with the current
eiderdown
duvet
continental quilt
a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider
land line
landline
a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits, a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave
land mine
ground-emplaced mine
booby trap
an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over
land office a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted
Polaroid camera
Polaroid Land camera
a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds
twilight zone
no man's land
the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression
acreage
land area
an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on
clouduckoo-land an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
Promised Land the goal towards which Christians strive
never-never land
dreamland
dreamworld
a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
drift
purport
the pervading meaning or tenor, caught the general drift of the conversation
drift trend
movement
a general tendency to change (as of opinion), not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book, a broad movement of the electorate to the right
creep a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
continental breakfast
petit dejeuner
a breakfast that usually includes a roll and coffee or tea
creep feed feed given to young animals isolated in a creep
nation land country the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him
state
nation
country
land
commonwealth
res publica
body politic
a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land
Continental Congress the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution, they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation
Continental Army the American army during the American Revolution
law of the land a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law), today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process, the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land'
Adelie Land
Terre Adelie
Adelie Coast
a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins
fatherland
homeland
motherland
mother country
country of origin
native land
the country where you were born
Coats Land a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea
commons common land a pasture subject to common use
country
state
land
the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries
domain
demesne
land
territory over which rule or control is exercised, his domain extended into Europe, he made it the law of the land
Eden
paradise nirvana
heaven promised land Shangri-la
any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
Enderby Land a region of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Wilkes Land, claimed by Australia
no man's land an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies
pasture
pastureland
grazing land
lea
ley
a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
Queen Maud Land a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea, claimed by Norway
site
land site
the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located), a good site for the school
tract
piece of land
piece of ground
parcel of land
parcel
an extended area of land
plot
plot of land
plot of ground
patch
a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation, a bean plot, a cabbage patch, a briar patch
Victoria Land a mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land
continental divide the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)
Wilkes Land a coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia, most of the territory is claimed by Australia
Palestine
Canaan
Holy Land
Promised Land
an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
Arkansas
Land of Opportunity
AR
a state in south central United States, one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
Illinois
Prairie State
Land of Lincoln
IL
a midwestern state in northentral United States
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