glacier
/ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/ nom B2En français : glacier
- A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill. · They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
- An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round. · You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.
- Something that moves very slowly · The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.
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Dans la bibliothèque
On the Exchange there were hurricanes and landslides and snowstorms and glaciers and volcanoes, and those elemental disturbances were reproduced in miniature in the broker’s offices.
The bright color comes from rock flour, which is ground up by melting glaciers.
Here, adventurous visitors can actually step out onto the massive Athabasca Glacier.
The wind was freezing cold, but the experience of walking on a glacier was unforgettable.
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