different between floodplain vs valley
floodplain
English
Etymology
flood +? plain
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: flood?plain
Noun
floodplain (plural floodplains)
- (geography) An alluvial plain that may or may not experience occasional or periodic flooding.
Translations
See also
- alluvial plain
floodplain From the web:
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valley
English
Etymology
From Middle English valey, valeye, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vall?s/vallis. Doublet of vlei.
Pronunciation
- enPR: v?l'?, IPA(key): /?væli/
- Rhymes: -æli
Noun
valley (plural valleys)
- An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
- Synonyms: (poetic) vale; see also Thesaurus:valley
- The area which drains into a river.
- Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
- The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
Hyponyms
- closed-cut valley
- open valley
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- dale
- dell
- vale
Anagrams
- y'all've
Manx
Noun
valley
- Lenited form of balley.
valley From the web:
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- what valley am i in
- what valley is valley girl
- what valley is bakersfield in
- what valley means
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