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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liman \Li"man\ (l[imac]"man), n. [F. limon, fr. L. limus slime.] The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.
Wiktionary
n. The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river.
WordNet
n. a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river
Wikipedia
Liman may refer to:
Places- Liman, Azerbaijan, a city in Lankaran Rayon
- Liman, Davachi, a village in Shabran Rayon, Azerbaijan
- Liman, Israel, a moshav in northern Israel
- Liman, Russia, name of several inhabited localities in Russia
- Liman, Novi Sad, a quarter of the city Novi Sad, Serbia
- Mount Liman, a 2563 m stratovolcano in East Java, (111°57‘E, 7°50‘S), part of the Liman-Wilis complex
- Liman Substage, a subdivision of the Illinoian Stage in geochronology
- Liman (landform), a type of lagoon or estuary, most prominent on the coast of the Black Sea
- Liman irrigation system, a system of collecting runoff water to sustain small tree groves in deserts
- Treaty of Balta Liman, a commercial treaty signed in 1838 between the Ottoman Empire and the United Kingdom
Liman (Лиман) is a Hellenized Russian adaptation of the Medieval Greek λιμένας (limenas) meaning bay or port. The term is usually used in place of the more universal delta, with its implication of landform, to describe wet estuaries in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A synonymous term guba (губа) is used in Russian sources for estuaries of the Russian shores in the north. A liman forms at the widening mouth of a river, where flow is blocked by a bar of sediments. A liman can be maritime (the bar being created by the current of a sea) or fluvial (the bar being created by the flow of a bigger river at the confluence).
Water in a liman is brackish with a variable salinity: during periods of low fresh-water intake it may become significantly more saline as a result of evaporation and inflow of sea water.
Such features are found in places with low tidal range, for example along the western and northern coast of the Black Sea, in the Baltic Sea ( Vistula Lagoon, the Curonian Lagoon), as well as along the lowest part of the Danube. Examples of limans include Lake Varna in Bulgaria, Lake Razelm in Romania, the Dniester Liman in Ukraine, the Anadyrskiy Liman in Siberia and Amur Liman.
Usage examples of "liman".
But the great Liman was not loved, and the Turks were very weary of the business.
His business now was not that of a spy but of a fomenter of mischief, a begetter of delays--for great things were preparing in the south, where Liman was holding a long line in face of an enemy who showed an ominous quiescence.
During the summer heats Adam had been a good deal away from headquarters by permission of Colonel Aziz, and had been in many strange places and among many queer folk in his task of tangling up the connections which linked the embarrassed Liman to his base.
His imagination caught fire, and he had visions of the vast hidden life astir behind the front where Liman played his mechanical game of war.
Fhe best of the Bay men in the Arctic- characters like Ches Russell, Lorenz Learmonth, Scotty Gall, Sandy Liman, Bert Swaffield, Jimmy Ford, John Stanners, Bob Cruickshank and J.
He learned a little of their language, and he spent such spare time as he had on Liman, their planet.
The Turks were directed by the German general Liman von Sanders, and he expected the landing to be attempted near Bulair on the flat and narrow isthmus which joined the Gallipoli Peninsula to the mainland.
Their chief objectives were El Afule, which might briefly be described as a place where all roads meet, Nazareth, a few miles farther north, the headquarters of the German General, Liman von Sanders, the Commander-in-Chief of the Turks, and Jenin, the headquarters of the enemy Air Force.
Arriving at dawn they, too, found the town asleep, and clattered through the streets in search of Liman von Sanders.
He was warned in the very nick of time, however, and the cavalry had an interesting back view of a swiftly disappearing car in which sat Liman von Sanders in his pyjamas, followed at a respectful distance by some of his staff not so discreetly clad.
All were under the supreme command of the German General, Liman von Sanders.
A Turkish force, under General Liman von Sanders, and estimated at about 12,000, concentrated a few miles south of Aleppo, where they threatened to offer some resistance.
The Liman showed blue in the distance, and beyond the Liman spread the Black Sea.