| NOUN | object | glacier | a slowly moving mass of ice |
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| Sounds | gley'sher | |
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| Rhymes | Ashur ... Yorkshire: 36 rhymes with sher... | |
| Meaning | A slowly moving mass of ice. | |
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| Parts | icefall | A steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall |
| moraine | accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier | |
| neve | The upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice | |
| Narrower | Alpine glacier, Alpine type of glacier | A glacier that moves down from a high valley |
| Piedmont glacier, Piedmont type of glacier | A type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska | |
| continental glacier | A glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice | |
| Broader | ice mass | A large mass of ice |
| Substances | ice, water ice | water frozen / frozen in the solid state |
| Spanish | glaciares, glaciar, helero | |
| Catalan | glacera | |
| Adjectives | glacial | relating to or derived from a glacier |
| Verbs | glaciate | become frozen and covered with glaciers |
| glaciate | cover with ice or snow or a glacier | |
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