glacial

«glacial» in Mova's school dictionary: to do with glaciers or ice, as in «glacial valleys» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (glacial)

meaning for a pupil

1) Glacial means to do with glaciers or ice, as in «glacial valleys». tree →

2) Glacial means extremely cold. tree →

3) Glacial means very slow, as in «at a glacial pace». tree →

4) (informal) Glacial can describe someone who is very unfriendly and cold. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons: glacial erosion, U-shaped glacial valleys, the Ice Age; in everyday talk and stories, a glacial wind or a glacial look; phrases: glacial valley, glacial period, glacial pace.

examples

• Glaciers carved this U-shaped glacial valley. tree →
• A glacial wind blew off the sea. tree →
• Traffic moved at a glacial pace. tree →
• She gave him a glacial stare. tree →
• The lake was formed in the last glacial period. tree →

note

Say it «GLAY-shul». The noun is «glacier» (river of ice). «Glacial pace» is an idiom meaning very slow.

In the corpora

• For the last 2.6 million years Earth has swung between cold glacial periods and warmer interglacials.
• During the last 2.6 million years the Earth has swung between cold glacial periods and warm interglacials.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «glacial» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.