Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Synonyymit

KieliKäännökset
italiascarpata
suomijyrkänne
venäjäоткос (otkos)

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. The steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet.
  2. (geology) A cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment.
  3. (heraldry) Obsolete spelling of scrape.

Verbi

  1. (earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment

Esimerkit

  • Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).
  • to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock
  • From scarped cliff and quarried stone. — Tennyson.
  • Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. — Emerson.

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektiscarped
Imperfektiscarped
Partisiipin preesensscarping
Monikkoscarps
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensscarps