different between glacier vs corrasion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal glacier, derived from glace + -ier, (cf. also Medieval Latin glaciarium), derived from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glacies (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??læs.j?/, /??le?s.j?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??le?.??/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /??le?.??/, /??le?s.j?/

Noun

glacier (plural glaciers)

1. (geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• iceberg

Further reading

• glacier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cargile, gracile

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal glacier, derived from glace + -ier, (cf. also Medieval Latin glaciarium), derived from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glacies (“ice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.sje/

Noun

glacier m (plural glaciers)

1. glacier
2. ice cream parlor

   Synonyms: glacerie, crémerie, bar laitier

See also

• glace

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• giclera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??la.ki.e?r/, [????äkie?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??la.t??i.er/, [??l??t??i?r]

Noun

glaci?r ? (genitive glacieris); third declension

1. (New Latin) glacier
   • 2015, Pope Franciscus, “Laudato si’. [1], Litterae Encyclicae, Vatican:

     Glacierum liquatio tam in polis quam in regionibus eximiae altitudinis gravissimum periculum denuntiat ne gasium methanum exeat […]

     The melting of glaciers at the poles as much as at particular high regions summons the grave danger that methane gas may be released […]

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -?r).

Verb

glacier

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of glaci?

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin corrasus, past participle of corradere (“to scrape together”), itself from cor- (“form of con- (“together”)”) + radere (“to scratch, scrape”).

Noun

corrasion (usually uncountable, plural corrasions)

1. (obsolete) The diminution of wealth, etc., such as through unanticipated expenditure.
2. The wearing away of surface material.
   • 1991, Carlton E. Brett, Yvette L. Bordeaux, Taphonomy of brachiopods from a Middle Devonian shell bed, D. I. MacKinnon, Daphne E. Lee, J. D. Campbell (editors), Brachiopods Through Time, page 221:

     In contrast, Spinocyrtia pedicle valves displayed a wide range of corrasion states, including extremely worn partial valves lacking any hint of ribbing and with edges, including fractured edges, rounded (Figs. 1, 2 B-E).

   • 2000, Janet D. Hughes, Conservation Investigation for Preservation of Historic Timber Hut in Antarctica, Stephen J. Kelley (editor), Wood Structures: A Global Forum on the Treatment, Conservation, and Repair of Cultural Heritage, American Society for Testing and Materials, page 278:

     Accurate data on the rate of corrasion would be very helpful in determining whether treatment is an urgent priority.

     Overstatement of corrasion is largely due to the assumption that the height of nails above the timber surface indicate^[sic] the extent of erosion of the wood surface.

   • 2001, Tree Ring Research, Volumes 57-60, Tree-Ring Society, page 13:

     Following the healing process, hail injuries remain distinctive in the growth rings as corrasions or scars and can be dated with dendrochronological and wood-anatomical methods.

3. (geology) Corrading (erosion by abrasion) caused by such as: wind-blown or water-borne sand, stream-borne or glacier-borne stones, or collisions between stones under the influence of seaside breakers.
   • 1880, Proceedings, Volume 18, American Philosophical Society, page 311:

     But the character of the deposit on these benches shows that it could not have accumulated under such conditions as must have existed had the plains resulted from lateral corrasions by streams with but slight fall.

   • 1993, Shatrughna Prasad Sinha, Faguni Ram, Manager Prasad, Hari Ram Nagalia (editors), Instant Encyclopaedia of Geography, Volume 8: Environmental Geography, Mittal Publications, page 104:

     Corrasion may be vertical or lateral. Vertical corrasion is corrasion of the bed of the river, deepening its channel. Lateral corrasion is corrasion of the banks, and leaves the bed untouched.

Related terms

• corrade
• corrasive

See also

• corrode
• rasion
• razor

Further reading

• Erosion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin corrasus, the past participle of corradere (“to scrape together”), itself from cor- (a form of con- 'together') + radere (“to scratch, scrape”).

Noun

corrasion f (plural corrasions)

1. The wear and tear effectuated by the erosive sand-loaded desert winds

Related terms

• corrosion
• corroder
• raser