different between landscape vs orography

English

Alternative forms

• landskip (obsolete)

Etymology

From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English lands?ipe, lands?eap (“region, district, tract of land”), equivalent to land +? -ship; in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?landske?p/

Noun

landscape (countable and uncountable, plural landscapes)

1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
2. A sociological aspect of a physical area.
3. A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc.
4. The pictorial aspect of a country.
5. (computing, printing, uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
6. A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
7. (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario

   The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

Antonyms

• (printing mode): portrait

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:landscape

Derived terms

• landscape gardener
• landscape gardening
• -scape

Translations

Verb

landscape (third-person singular simple present landscapes, present participle landscaping, simple past and past participle landscaped)

1. To create or maintain a landscape.

Translations

See also

• dreamscape
• moonscape
• seascape
• skyscape

Anagrams

• lap dances, lap-dances, lapdances

English

Alternative forms

• oreography

Etymology

oro- (“mountain”) +? -graphy

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

orography (usually uncountable, plural orographies)

1. (geomorphology) the scientific study, or a physical description of mountains
2. the orographic features of a region
   • 1911, Africa, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     Morocco was in 1883-1884 the scene of important explorations by de Foucauld, a Frenchman who, disguised as a Jew, crossed and re-crossed the Atlas and supplied the first trustworthy information as to the orography of many parts of the chain.

   • 1995, B. W. Atkinson, Introduction to the fluid mechanics of meso-scale flow fields, in A. Gyr, Franz-S. Rys (editors), Diffusion and Transport of Pollutants in Atmospheric Mesoscale Flow Fields, page 20,

     Most flows actually occur, of course, over non-uniform orography and consequently in numerical models of such flows it is necessary to transform the coordinates so that the equations accurately represent flows in such terrain (Gal-Chen and Somerville 1975).

   • 2006, Austin Woods, Medium-Range Weather Prediction: The European Approach, page 105,

     The independent scientists of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) expressed concerns about how the spectral model would deal with steep mountains. […] It was this work that lead to development of the envelope orography outlined below.

Translations

References

• OED 2004 (online)