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Historically, a number of everyday words and expressions used to be characteristic of different dialect areas of the United States, especially the North, the Midland, and the South; many of these terms spread from their area of origin and came to be used throughout the nation. Today many people use these different words for the same object ...
an enclosed space used for a particular activity (as a railway service area, a lumberyard or timber yard, a junkyard, etc.) a unit of length: enclosed area of land surrounding a dwelling, usu. comprising lawn and play area (UK usu.: garden) (yard sale) see garage sale a campus (e.g. Harvard Yard) a place (as in a forest) where deer gather in winter
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
Valley – Low area between hills, often with a river running through it; Vale – Low area between hills, often with a river running through it; Wadi – River valley, especially a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain; Waterfall – A point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop
municipality (amalgamated urban areas without town rights) NUTS Europe: Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics obec Czech Republic: municipality Slovakia: область : Countries formerly in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia: province, region община Bulgaria: municipality okres Czech Republic: district Slovakia: okrug
binnacle list A ship's sick list. The list of men unable to report for duty was given to the officer or mate of the watch by the ship's surgeon. The list was kept at the binnacle. bird farm United States Navy slang for an aircraft carrier. bite Verb used in reference to a rudder, as in "the rudder begins to bite". When a vessel has steerageway ...
A naturally emergent landscape form that eases communication between areas. [2] acme See summit. acre (ac) A unit of area traditionally defined as the area of a plot of land one chain (66 feet) by one furlong (660 feet), equivalent to 43,560 square feet (0.001563 sq mi; 4,047 m 2), or about 0.40 hectare. active volcano
Most famous parts of the brain highlighted in different colours The human brain anatomical regions are ordered following standard neuroanatomy hierarchies. Functional , connective , and developmental regions are listed in parentheses where appropriate.