The meaning of Promontory

noun

A printed or written statement of the money owed for goods or services.

Usage examples:

The bill for their meal came to £17

verb

List (a person or event) in a programme.

Usage examples:

They were billed to appear but did not show up

verb

(of birds, especially doves) stroke bill with bill during courtship.

Usage examples:

Two birds, perfectly white, pink-beaked, dark-eyed, pigeons, settled on the ledge outside my window…

noun

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something.

Usage examples:

The offer was denounced as a bluff

verb

Try to deceive someone as to one's abilities or intentions.

Usage examples:

He's been bluffing all along

adjective

Direct in speech or behaviour but in a good-natured way.

Usage examples:

A big, bluff, hearty man

noun

A sleeveless cloak, typically a short one.

Usage examples:

He was wearing a flowing cape

verb

(in bullfighting) taunt (the bull) by flourishing a cape.

Usage examples:

The film shows a man expertly caping a charging bull

noun

A headland or promontory.

Usage examples:

We could see the island from the cape

noun

A steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea.

Usage examples:

A coast path along the top of rugged cliffs

noun

A high area of rock with a steep side, often on a coast

noun

An area of land bordering on another or lying in front of a particular feature.

Usage examples:

Floodwater may contain higher carbon dioxide concentrations if the ph is sufficiently low, but both…

noun

The upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs.

Usage examples:

Whatever comes into my head

adjective

Chief; principal.

Usage examples:

The head waiter

verb

Be in the leading position on.

Usage examples:

The st george's day procession was headed by the mayor

noun

A narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea.

Usage examples:

The fal estuary is long and wide, and falmouth grew along its western side in a straggling way, cur…

noun

A piece of land that sticks out from the coast into the sea

noun

The measurement of someone or something from head to foot or from base to top.

Usage examples:

Columns rising to 65 feet in height

noun

A piece of metal or other hard material curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on.

Usage examples:

A picture hook

verb

Attach or fasten with a hook or hooks.

Usage examples:

The truck had a red lamp hooked to its tailgate

noun

A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.

Usage examples:

At the end of these two cows' horns are attached, and to the horns two large goat skin bellows, one…

verb

(of an animal) butt or gore (someone or something) with the horns.

verb

Think about (a fact, proposal, or request) deeply and at length.

Usage examples:

She began to mull over the various possibilities

verb

Warm (an alcoholic drink, especially wine) and add sugar and spices to it.

Usage examples:

A saucepan on the stove works just fine since we don't mull the cider for very long

noun

Humus formed under non-acid conditions.

Usage examples:

Humus should be of the mull type - ranging from acidic to calcareous, or moder in podsol.

noun

A headland or promontory.

Usage examples:

Orford ness

suffix

(forming nouns chiefly from adjectives) denoting a state or condition.

Usage examples:

Liveliness

verb

Hang or extend outwards over.

Usage examples:

A concrete path overhung by jacaranda trees

noun

A part of something that extends or hangs over something else.

Usage examples:

He crouched beneath an overhang of bushes

verb

(of something at a high level) to stick out farther than something at a lower level and therefore not to have any support from below, or to hang over

Usage examples:

The balcony overhangs the patio, creating a shady place to sit., the house has a deep overhang faci…

noun

A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.

Usage examples:

The island's 3,700 acres of tropical rainforest are a biological reserve that also includes five su…

noun

An area of land mostly surrounded by water but connected to a larger piece of land

Usage examples:

The monterey peninsula

noun

The tapered, sharp end of a tool, weapon, or other object.

Usage examples:

The point of his dagger

verb

A fielding position on the off side near the batsman.

noun

A very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one.

Usage examples:

We swerved toward the edge of the precipice

noun

A very steep side of a cliff or mountain

Usage examples:

We stood at the edge of the precipice and looked down at the sea.

noun

An estimate or forecast of a future situation based on a study of present trends.

Usage examples:

Plans based on projections of slow but positive growth

noun

The state of being important, famous, or noticeable.

Usage examples:

She came to prominence as an artist in the 1960s

noun

The state of being easily seen or well known

Usage examples:

Most of the papers give prominence to (= put in a noticeable position) the same story this morning.…

noun

A long, narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed.

Usage examples:

The north-east ridge of everest

verb

Mark with or form into narrow raised bands.

Usage examples:

A field ploughed in narrow stretches that are ridged up slightly

noun

A long, narrow, raised part of a surface, esp. a high edge of a hill or mountain

Usage examples:

A mountain ridge, plowed ridges looked like stripes across the field.

verb

Eject saliva forcibly from one's mouth, sometimes as a gesture of contempt or anger.

Usage examples:

Todd spat in hugh's face

noun

Saliva, typically that which has been ejected from a person's mouth.

Usage examples:

I brought up all this phlegm and spit into my mouth, and at first it was so, so foul i nearly choked.

verb

Put a spit through (meat) in order to roast it over an open fire.

Usage examples:

He spitted the rabbit and cooked it

noun

A device with a small spike or a spiked wheel that is worn on a rider's heel and used for urging a horse forward.

Usage examples:

Jacobs said he used the spurs to control the horse and that any force he used was to control the ho…

verb

Urge (a horse) forward by digging one's spurs into its sides.

Usage examples:

She spurred her horse towards the hedge

verb

To encourage an activity or development, or to cause something to develop faster

Usage examples:

The huge new factory spurred economic growth in the entire region., the team's win on saturday will…