Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Geology A fold with strata sloping downward on both sides from a common crest.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as anticlinal.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Geol.) A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal. Contrassted with
syncline .
Etymologies
- anti- + -cline (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A recent report estimates there were 60 percent fewer wintering mule deer on part of the anticline in 2009 compared with 2001, and 28 percent fewer mule deer in 2009 compared with 2005.”
The Huffington Post: Deer Population Plummets Amidst Natural Gas Drilling
“The Sequatchie Valley is structurally associated with an anticline, where erosion of broken rock to the south of the Crab Orchard Mountains scooped out the linear valley.”
“It occupies another concavity 10 km west of Lake Enriquillo, separated from it by the Jimaní anticline.”
“Structurally associated with an anticline, where erosion of broken rock scooped out the linear valley, it is composed mostly of Mississippian to Ordovician-age limestones, dolomites, and shales, with some low, cherty ridges.”
“There are 516 miles of new roads constructed on the anticline, with half the fields developed.”
Energy Development is Ruining Public Hunting Grounds in the West
“After more than two years of development, the BLM reported that 11,000 vehicle trips onto the anticline were made during December 2005.”
Energy Development is Ruining Public Hunting Grounds in the West
“A new study of pronghorns using the winter range on the anticline was released in January 2006, but it was difficult to draw conclusions from it.”
Energy Development is Ruining Public Hunting Grounds in the West
“The energy companies operating on the anticline were supposed to have been bound by restrictions to protect wildlife during the winter, but the local BLM office granted exemptions in eight out of 10 requests.”
Energy Development is Ruining Public Hunting Grounds in the West
“Figure 6: The following illustration shows two anticline folds which are inclined.”
“An anticline is a convex up fold in rock that resembles an arch-like structure with the rock beds (or limbs) dipping way from the center of the structure (Figure 3).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anticline’.
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Coal Mining Terms
Coal mining has engendered fascinating subcultures in industry, labor, music, folklore, environment and energy. It has a rich vocabulary as well, and I've encountered some gorgeous mining words. I...
firedamp, scrip, bituminous, anthracite, company store, blackdamp, brattice, bug dust, tipple, whitedamp, float dust, fly ash and 136 more...
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Antics
anticonvulsant, pedantic, unanticipated, atlantic, semantics, canticle, geanticline, manticore, anticyclone, antichrist, infanticide, antic and 44 more...
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nachchba's Words
stentorian, blasé, ennui, concinnity, melee, photokeratitis, skiffle, refulgence, mongrel, fakir, caid, eudaimonia and 215 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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geologic
karst, meander, lapis lazuli, metasomatic, amphibole, metamorphic, ultrabasic, chilled margin, metavolcanic, subvolcanic, volcanic bomb, pyroclastic and 116 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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...another list...
I've no idea where I got this page full of words, but whatever it is, I want to find it again. May have duplicate words from other lists.
bicameral, aphelion, dirigible, parhelion, flocculus, vernier, corticate, oxalis, pandanus, calabash, plumbago, jonquil and 217 more...
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Geology
baraboo, monadnock, peneplain, endrumpf, peneplanation, cairngorm, paleooology, stream capture, allochthon, slickensides, graywacke, tectonics and 56 more...
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the geologist
I like rocks. And all the names attributed to rocks and other geologic formations. Also see the earth list.
gneiss, breccia, granite, sedimentary, metamorphic, shale, igneous, geode, gabbro, lapillus, sandstone, limestone and 13 more...
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In the Desert
arroyo, bajada, semiaridity, playa, mesa, anticline, blowout, hogback, hoodoo, yuccas, creosote bushes, agaves and 23 more...
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word set 3
sempiternal, chronometric, superjacent, transmogrify, rectitudinous, phantasmagoria, luculent, angle of repose, alligatoring, somnolent, avifauna, phalanx and 82 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for anticline.
reesetee ...and thus belongs on my back-formations list! Thanks for the reminder, slumry. Jul 11, 2007
slumry Interestingly, this is a back formation from anticlinal. I did not know that. Jul 11, 2007