All English words - page 2173

Meanings of Georgic:

noun

A poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics.

Usage examples:

English imperial georgics describe imperial expansion in such a way that virtuous, civilizing labor…

adjective

Rustic; pastoral.

Usage examples:

Through his continued application of georgic strategies, he is returned to a truly virgilian sense …

Meanings of Georgical:

adjective

Of or relating to agriculture; agricultural, rustic.

Meanings of Georgics:

noun

A poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics.

Usage examples:

English imperial georgics describe imperial expansion in such a way that virtuous, civilizing labor…

adjective

Rustic; pastoral.

Usage examples:

Through his continued application of georgic strategies, he is returned to a truly virgilian sense …

Meanings of Geoscience:

noun

Earth sciences, especially geology.

Usage examples:

A regional approach to public geoscience will reflect our geology, and will encourage sharing of ex…

Meanings of Geoscientist:

noun

An expert in or student of earth sciences, especially geology.

Usage examples:

Engineers and geoscientists employed in the petroleum industry

Meanings of Geoscientists:

noun

An expert in or student of earth sciences, especially geology.

Usage examples:

Engineers and geoscientists employed in the petroleum industry

Meanings of Geoscopic:

adjective

Relating to visual examination of geological or geographical features; relating to a view of the earth or the world.

Meanings of Geoselenic:

adjective

Of or relating to both the earth and the moon.

Meanings of Geosphere:

noun

Any of the almost spherical concentric regions of the earth and its atmosphere, especially the lithosphere.

Usage examples:

The nature and magnitude of the exchanges between the geosphere and the earth's other surficial sph…

Meanings of Geostatic:

adjective

Designating pressure exerted by overlying soil or rock; of or relating to such pressure.

Meanings of Geostatics:

noun

Chiefly with singular agreement. the statics of buildings and of solid objects generally.

Meanings of Geostationary:

adjective

(of an artificial satellite of the earth) moving in a circular geosynchronous orbit in the plane of the equator, so that it appears to be stationary in the sky above a fixed point on the surface.

Usage examples:

Once in geostationary orbit above the equator this satellite will provide a wide range of high-spee…

noun

An orbit (= path travelled around an object in space) in which a satellite always remains over the same place on the earth's surface because it moves at the same speed as the earth turns

Meanings of Geostrategic:

adjective

Relating to the strategy required in dealing with geopolitical problems.

Usage examples:

Propaganda broadcasting is sometimes a useful adjunct to geopolitical and geostrategic policy, but …

Meanings of Geostrophic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting the component of a wind or current that arises from a balance between pressure gradients and coriolis forces.

Usage examples:

If a geostrophic wind, with pressure gradient force balanced by the coriolis force, were to encount…

Meanings of Geosynchronous:

adjective

Another term for synchronous (sense 2).

noun

The curved path through which objects in space move around a planet ...

Meanings of Geosynclinal:

noun

Geosyncline.

adjective

Of, relating to, or of the nature of a geosyncline.

Meanings of Geosyncline:

noun

A large-scale depression in the earth's crust containing very thick deposits.

Usage examples:

For several generations of geologists the name of j. d. dana was associated with the concept of the…

Meanings of Geosynclines:

noun

A large-scale depression in the earth's crust containing very thick deposits.

Usage examples:

For several generations of geologists the name of j. d. dana was associated with the concept of the…

Meanings of Geotag:

noun

A piece of electronic data that shows where someone or something is and can, for example, be attached to a photograph or comment on social media

Usage examples:

The phone doesn't geotag your photos without your authorization.

Meanings of Geotaxis:

noun

The motion of a motile organism or cell in response to the force of gravity.

Usage examples:

It therefore seems that positive phototaxis was stronger than the positive geotaxis as a driving fo…

Meanings of Geotechnics:

plural noun

The branch of civil engineering concerned with the study and modification of soil and rocks.

Usage examples:

Further detailed studies were carried out under the following headings: socio-economic issues, agri…

Meanings of Geotectonics:

noun

With singular agreement. = "tectonics".

Meanings of Geotherm:

noun

Originally: = "isogeotherm". now usually: a graph of temperature as a function of depth in the earth's crust; a geothermal gradient.

Meanings of Geothermal:

adjective

Relating to or produced by the internal heat of the earth.

Usage examples:

Some 70 per cent of iceland's energy needs are met from geothermal sources

Meanings of Geothermally:

adverb

In a way that is connected to or uses the heat that exists naturally inside the earth

Usage examples:

Head three hours north to a land of lava fields and glaciers, and spend the weekend lazing in geoth…