different between glacial vs moraine

English

Etymology

From French glacial, from Latin glaci?lis, from glaci?s (“ice”). The sense "slow" refers to the speed of actual glaciers, typically around 1 meter per day.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??le?.s??l/, /??le?.?(?)?l/
• Rhymes: -e???l

Adjective

glacial (comparative more glacial, superlative most glacial)

1. Of, or relating to glaciers.

   Wang Shijin is a glacier expert and director of the Yulong Snow Mountain Glacial and Environmental Observation Research Station.

2. (figuratively) Very slow.
   • 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:

     Progress on judicial reform has been glacial, meeting enormous resistance.
3. Cold and icy.

4. Having the appearance of ice.

5. (figuratively) Cool and unfriendly.

Hyponyms

Translations

Noun

glacial (plural glacials)

1. A glacial period (colloquially known as an ice age).

   Synonym: ice age

   Coordinate term: interglacial

Translations

Derived terms

• glacial till

References

Anagrams

• gallica

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?l?.si?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?la.si?al/

Adjective

glacial (masculine and feminine plural glacials)

1. glacial

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.sjal/
• Homophones: glaciale, glaciales

Adjective

glacial (feminine singular glaciale, masculine plural glaciaux, feminine plural glaciales)

1. glacial (all meanings)

Further reading

• “glacial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Adjective

glacial m or f (plural glaciais)

1. frozen, at the temperature of ice

   Synonym: xeado

2. glacial, pertaining to glaciers
3. (figuratively) frigid, chilly, not cordial

   Synonym: xélido

Related terms

• glaciación

Norman

Etymology

From Latin glaci?lis, from glaci?s (“ice”).

Adjective

glacial m

1. (Jersey) icy

Portuguese

Adjective

glacial m or f (plural glaciais, comparable)

1. glacial (cold and icy)

   Synonym: gélido

2. glacial (relating to glaciers)
3. relating to ice ages
4. (figuratively) glacial; cold (emotionally distant)

   Synonyms: frio, gélido

Romanian

Etymology

From French glacial, from Latin glacialis.

Adjective

glacial m or n (feminine singular glacial?, masculine plural glaciali, feminine and neuter plural glaciale)

1. glacial

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?la??jal/, [?la??jal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?la?sjal/, [?la?sjal]

Adjective

glacial (plural glaciales)

1. glacial
2. (figuratively) frigid, chilly, not cordial

Related terms

English

Etymology

From French moraine, from Savoyard Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum. Compare morion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m???e?n/, /m???e?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m???e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: mo?raine

Noun

moraine (plural moraines)

1. (geology) An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
   • 1896, James Edward Todd, The Moraines of the Missouri Coteau, and Their Attendant Deposits, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 144, page 47,

     This fact is suggestive in connection with the question whether the moraines mark different epochs of the ice age or different stages in the recession of the ice of one epoch.

     This moraine, like the previous ones, influenced the drainage of the country. Several streams have evidently been located or directed by the influence of this moraine.

   • 1959, Robert David Miller, Ernest Dobrovolny, Surficial Geology of Anchorage and Vicinity, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 1093, page 61,

     Whether this advance beyond the Elmendorf Moraine is a pre-Naptowne Wisconsin or is merely a fluctuation of the Naptowne glacier that deposited the end moraine is unclear.

   • 1997, Robert Phillip Sharp, Allen F. Glazner, Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley, Mountain Press Publishing, page 241,

     Moraines that originate along the lateral margins of an ice stream are naturally called lateral moraines. Many lateral moraines perch high on the walls of glaciated valleys.

Derived terms

• ground moraine (“moraine found at the base of a glacier”)
• lateral moraine (“moraine of eroded debris carried along the glacier’s edge”)
• medial moraine (“moraine where two glaciers meet”)
• push moraine, pushed moraine (“moraine of unstratified glacial sediment pushed by the terminus of a lowland glacier into a pile or linear ridge”)
• terminal moraine, end moraine (“moraine of rubble dropped at the foot of a melting glacier”)

Translations

Anagrams

• moanier, romaine

French

Etymology

From Savoyard Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.??n/

Noun

moraine f (plural moraines)

1. moraine

Further reading

• “moraine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• romaine, Romaine