What part of speech is glacier?

Glacier can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. glacier is a noun, singular of glaciers.

Inflections

Noun

What does glacier mean?

Definitions

Noun

glacier - a slowly moving mass of ice

Examples of glacier

#   Sentence  
1. noun The glacier moves but by inches.
2. noun The glacier moves slowly.
3. noun The water comes straight from the glacier.
4. noun It is dangerous to walk on a calving glacier.
5. noun The glacier is melting.
6. noun Then, seating himself opposite to me, he looked at me long and fixedly with his strange, twinkling, reckless eyes—eyes of a cold light blue, the colour of a glacier lake.
7. noun “If glaciers are melting then first people get a little bit more water, but then there comes a time when actually there will be a reduction in contribution of glacier melt into our river systems,” according to Molden.
8. noun A glacier loses mass when the water that forms it melts.
9. noun Mourners in Iceland gathered Sunday to bid a final farewell to 700-year-old Okjokull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change.
10. noun Children installed a memorial plaque to the glacier, now called just "Ok,'' its name missing "jokull", the Icelandic word for glacier.
11. noun "Bigger lakes may increase the risk of catastrophic dam failure," Joseph Shea, a glacier hydrologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, told the magazine Science.
12. noun The disappearance of hundreds of small glaciers in the Alps was dramatized when hundreds of mourners recently attended what was dubbed a "funeral" to mark the loss of Switzerland's Pizol glacier.
13. noun The speed that this glacier has been shrinking is really shocking.
14. noun The study showed the glacier melt was raising sea levels by about 0.74 millimeters a year, or 21 percent of overall sea level rise observed during the period.
Sentence  
noun
The glacier moves but by inches.
The glacier moves slowly.
The water comes straight from the glacier.
It is dangerous to walk on a calving glacier.
The glacier is melting.
Then, seating himself opposite to me, he looked at me long and fixedly with his strange, twinkling, reckless eyes—eyes of a cold light blue, the colour of a glacier lake.
“If glaciers are melting then first people get a little bit more water, but then there comes a time when actually there will be a reduction in contribution of glacier melt into our river systems,” according to Molden.
A glacier loses mass when the water that forms it melts.
Mourners in Iceland gathered Sunday to bid a final farewell to 700-year-old Okjokull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change.
Children installed a memorial plaque to the glacier, now called just "Ok,'' its name missing "jokull", the Icelandic word for glacier.
"Bigger lakes may increase the risk of catastrophic dam failure," Joseph Shea, a glacier hydrologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, told the magazine Science.
The disappearance of hundreds of small glaciers in the Alps was dramatized when hundreds of mourners recently attended what was dubbed a "funeral" to mark the loss of Switzerland's Pizol glacier.
The speed that this glacier has been shrinking is really shocking.
The study showed the glacier melt was raising sea levels by about 0.74 millimeters a year, or 21 percent of overall sea level rise observed during the period.

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