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waterfall

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE spectacular ▪ No great torrents of water, no spectacular waterfalls , no deafening roars of waters disgorging their immense might. ▪ The Turtle rises so high behind Larimore Dam that it goes over a spillway and ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of drops in the course of a stream or river . Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waterfall \Wa"ter*fall`\, n. A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract. (Hairdressing) An arrangement of a woman's back hair over a cushion or frame in some resemblance ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wætergefeall ; see water (n.1) + fall (n.). The modern English word is perhaps a re-formation from c.1500. Similar formation in German wasserfall , Old Norse vatnfall .

Usage examples of waterfall.

Since I have been here the beautification of his garden has been his chief object, and he has made a very respectable waterfall, a rushing stream, a small lake, a rustic bamboo bridge, and several grass banks, and has transplanted several large trees.

Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.

There were hanging gardens, miniature forests, waterfalls, small game preserves, lakelets, parklets, and playgrounds.

The ship slipped sideways, as if sliding from an invisible surface that had been tilted beneath it, and a roaring, something like a waterfall but not really like any sound Parrah had ever heard before, reached her.

North Dome, any one of which might have been excavated into a commodious church, and discovering, for the pains cost by a reconnoissance of five miles, some of the loveliest shady stretches of singing water and some of the finest minor waterfalls in our American scenery.

By Sawdde, Senny, Dovey, Dee, Edw, Eden, Aled, all, Taff and Towy broad and free, Llyfnant with its waterfall, Claerwen, Cleddau, Dulais, Daw, Ely, Gwili, Ogwr, Nedd, Small is our River Dewi, Lord, A baby on a rushy bed.

Facing this river, to the right as I see it, but far across the plain, are lovely mountains not so very lofty, where, from the other river of the lake, amidst slender ferns, rush waterfalls that descend in bursts of stirless spray.

In full view, and lit up by the reflected radiance flung out from the dome, a rushing waterfall made sonorous surgy music of its own as it tumbled headlong into a rocky recess overgrown with lotus-lilies and plumy fern,--here and there, small, white and gold tents or pavilions glimmered invitingly through the shadows cast by the great magnolia trees, from whose lovely half-shut buds balmy odors crept deliciously through the warm air.

In the center, a large artificial waterfall plunged into a rocky pool surrounded by showy clumps of grass, a fifteen-foot green cactus with many branches and symmetrical ribs, and a tornillo mesquite with twisted limbs, hung wim odd-shaped corkscrew beans.

He skidded to a stop beside Towser where the waterfall broke into a glittering rainbow of many hundred colours.

Mr Umbril the shoemaker that his chest pains will clear up if he walks to the waterfall at Tumble Crag every day for a month and throws three shiny pebbles into the pool for the water sprites!

If a berserker force was going to descend on Waterfall, the chance of four defenseless humans avoiding discovery by the unliving killers would be nil.

Isabel subsidized feral hippies and the mulatto offspring of her criminal relations and Rachel Ebdus could certainly send Dylan, God help him, to Public School 38 to show his sole white face among that ocean of brown, to air his waterfall of girlish hair among the Afros, if that was what suited her principles.

But before he died he put the Amadan under geasa to meet and to fight the White Wether of the Hill of the Waterfalls.

Even mousy Conseil did not lag behind as they trudged past trickling waterfalls and rockslides, until they reached the Anatolian Plateau, a wilderness peopled only by a few nomads.