Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
Fine Dictionary

cliff

klɪf
WordNet
A woman is standing by a cliff, a waterfall and mountains in the distance. The Kôya River is located south of the cities of Nara and Osaka, in the Kii province. With two poems.
A woman is standing by a cliff, a waterfall and mountains in the distance. The Kôya River is located south of the cities of Nara and Osaka, in the Kii province. With two poems.
  1. (n) cliff
    a steep high face of rock "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town","a steep drop"
Illustrations
A beach with cliffs in the background. In the foreground a youth pointing to some shells on the ground.
A beach with cliffs in the background. In the foreground a youth pointing to some shells on the ground.
Woody landscape with high cliffs on both sides of a stream. Across the water a wooden bridge where a goat and a man with a basket on his back walk. A second person is sitting on a rock.
Woody landscape with high cliffs on both sides of a stream. Across the water a wooden bridge where a goat and a man with a basket on his back walk. A second person is sitting on a rock.
Above four rocks quarried at St. Agnes, below the cliff face in Cook's Kitchen Mine.
Above four rocks quarried at St. Agnes, below the cliff face in Cook's Kitchen Mine.
Landscape with a city on a cliff to the right. A river flows along it, on which a shepherd lets cows drink. Below the scene a text in Latin and a reference to Virgil.
Landscape with a city on a cliff to the right. A river flows along it, on which a shepherd lets cows drink. Below the scene a text in Latin and a reference to Virgil.
Mirrored copy. Bay with fishing boats and a rocky coastline. On a cliff a fortress.
Mirrored copy. Bay with fishing boats and a rocky coastline. On a cliff a fortress.
The Argonauts sail through a narrow passage between cliffs called Symplegaden, which guard the entrance to the Bosphorus. A pigeon shows them the way. With an explanatory caption in French.
The Argonauts sail through a narrow passage between cliffs called Symplegaden, which guard the entrance to the Bosphorus. A pigeon shows them the way. With an explanatory caption in French.
Model of an artificial cliff. Seen from above it is a star-shaped framework with eight sharp points. Eight points pointing upwards are mounted on a metal disc in the middle. In side view it looks like an upside-down pyramid with an eye for anchors at the top; the lower part is an inverted pyramid with square base, closed with planks. A standard in the middle connects all construction elements. Scale 1:12 (derived).
Model of an artificial cliff. Seen from above it is a star-shaped framework with eight sharp points. Eight points pointing upwards are mounted on a metal disc in the middle. In side view it looks like an upside-down pyramid with an eye for anchors at the top; the lower part is an inverted pyramid with square base, closed with planks. A standard in the middle connects all construction elements. Scale 1:12 (derived).
To the right a castle with a square tower on a tree-covered cliff. On the left a river over which a stone bridge has been built. In the background the silhouette of the settlement. The full moon in the sky.
To the right a castle with a square tower on a tree-covered cliff. On the left a river over which a stone bridge has been built. In the background the silhouette of the settlement. The full moon in the sky.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
High-wire acts have been enjoyed since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Antique medals have been excavated from Greek islands depicting men ascending inclined cords and walking across ropes stretched between cliffs. The Greeks called these high-wire performers neurobates or oribates. In the Roman city of Herculaneum there is a fresco representing an aerialist high on a rope, dancing and playing a flute. Sometimes Roman tightrope walkers stretched cables between the tops of two neighboring hills and performed comic dances and pantomimes while crossing.
  1. Cliff
    klĭf A high, steep rock; a precipice.
  2. Cliff
    (Mus) See Clef.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) cliff
    The steep and rugged face of a rocky mass; a steep rock or headland; a precipice.
  2. (n) cliff
    A variant of clef.
  3. (n) cliff
    The strata of rock above or between the strata of coal.
  4. (n) cliff
    Hard chalk.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Cliff
    klif (mus.) Same as Clef.
  2. (n) Cliff
    klif a high steep rock: the steep side of a mountain
Quotations
Ray Bradbury
You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.
Source Unknown
Ray Bradbury
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
Martin Sheen
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
Martin Sheen
Ray Bradbury
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
Ray Bradbury
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived.
Zen Saying
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. clif, cloef,; akin to OS. klif, D. klif, klip, Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa,; perh. orig. a climbing place,. See Climb

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. clif; Dut. clif; Ice. klif.

Usage in the news

Basketball blog Kentucky latest to offer Curie 's Cliff Alexander. chicagotribune.com

I always promised y'all that when Cliff decided to make an honest woman out of me, I'd let you know. akg.com

BOB HALLINEN / Anchorage Daily News A Dall sheep ewe and lamb feed on the cliffs above the Seward Highway along Turnagain Arm on Thursday, November 15, 2012. adn.com

Best-of collections are to music what Cliffs Notes are to literature. villagevoice.com

Will the 'fiscal cliff' darken the mood in the malls. csmonitor.com

Whether Washington can come to terms to avert the fiscal cliff – and tax hikes – is a wild card. csmonitor.com

Venezuela's reelection of Hugo Chavez, fiscal cliff and economic strategy. ashingtonpost.com

Have they gone over the cliff. motherjones.com

Growing up, I remember a bakery named Little Cliff's. 5280.com

Framing it against the background of continued economic difficulties across the country, she called for action to be taken on the immediate crisis in need of bipartisan effort: the so-called fiscal cliff. chicagotribune.com

House Speaker John Boehner, seen last week, discusses the looming fiscal cliff. bur.org

Virtually everyone agrees that allowing the nation to fall off the fiscal cliff would be a bad thing. bur.org

Chamber forecasts diverge depending on economy avoiding or going over "fiscal cliff.". kansascity.com

If America goes over the fiscal cliff, it will take more than 41,000 Kansas City area jobs with it, an economic forecast said Friday. kansascity.com

'Fiscal cliff' debate takes toll locally. ptv.com

Usage in scientific papers

Since X is a real curve, we have dim | Pr i=1 Pi + D ′ | = r , so i=1 Pi + ¯D ′ is calculating Cliff (XC ).
Clifford Theorem for real algebraic curves

Proposition 4.9 Let X be a real curve such that X has an infinite Clifford index or Cliff (X ) ≥ s.
Clifford Theorem for real algebraic curves

Assume now Cliff (X ) ≥ s and let D be an effective and special divisor of degree d contributing to the Clifford index of X .
Clifford Theorem for real algebraic curves

Proposition 4.11 Let X be a real curve such that X has a finite Clifford index c = Cliff (X ).
Clifford Theorem for real algebraic curves

Suppose there are three spatially separate users Alice, Bob and Cliff.
Quantum Information Processing Without Joint Measurement

Usage in literature

Eli Fraddam, who seemed to know everything, took me to it by the upper way; by that I mean the way of the cliff. "The Birthright" by Joseph Hocking

The glacier filled the whole ravine from cliff to cliff. "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

From the bottom of the winding path which they had to climb it seemed to hang almost sheer over the cliff side. "The New Tenant" by E. Phillips Oppenheim

You can go down the cliff, and ask our commander's name from yon sleepy Orson; his tongue goes fast enough at all seasons. "The Buccaneer" by Mrs. S. C. Hall

On the cliffs she paused to look about her. "The Beth Book" by Sarah Grand

Up, up rose the slope, cliff on cliff and the imperial white dome beyond! "The Great Sioux Trail" by Joseph Altsheler

Somehow, the dignity of the massive curving cliffs soothed him, heartened him anew. "Heart of the Blue Ridge" by Waldron Baily

Suddenly Pronto shied violently, tried to bolt up the cliff, scrambling goatwise for twenty feet to stand shivering and snorting. "Rimrock Trail" by J. Allan Dunn

I know all mamma's friends, and I am positive not one of them ever lived at Cliffe-on-Sea. "Our Bessie" by Rosa Nouchette Carey

When the two boys awoke it was morning, but only a faint light reached them in their sleeping place under the cliff. "Dave Porter in the Far North" by Edward Stratemeyer

Usage in poetry
An image of Lethe,
and the fields
Full of faint light
but golden,
Gray cliffs,
and beneath them
"The Coming Of War: Actaeon" by Ezra Pound Author object (202)
The cliffs on the mountain,
The grand and the gray,
They took the bright creature
And hurled it away!
"The Waterfall" by Henry Kendall
There's no end! The miles and cliffs flash past
Stop crazy flood!
The frightened clouds go fast,
Sun sets in blood!
"On the Field of Kulicovo" by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok Author object (21)
When on the cliff, or in the wood
I muse the summer evening by,
And realize the woes of life,
I contemplate Eternity.
"From "Lights And Shades."" by Sarah Anne Curzon
First, ven I get from sea-sick free,
Just after Dover cliff,
I spy, vat I have never see,
One charmant piece rost bif.
"Ca N'ira Pas" by Charles Dibdin Author object (98)
Foot prints of the rain are here
That pit the sand with pox;
Denuding cliffs of powder dust,
Exposing scar-faced rocks
"Wupatki" by Norman MacLeod