Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bay or baylike shape.
- n. The formation of a bay.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A part of the sea closed in and sheltered by capes or promontories.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A bay.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
Etymologies
- em- + bay + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So, the location of the end of the embayment is a wild guess.”
“But Mannering was chiefly delighted with the view from the windows, which commanded that incomparable prospect of the ground between Edinburgh and the sea; the Frith of Forth, with its islands; the embayment which is terminated by the Law of North Berwick; and the varied shores of Fife to the northward, indenting with a hilly outline the clear blue horizon.”
“But Mannering was chiefly delighted with the view from the windows, which commanded that incomparable prospect of the ground between Edinburgh and the sea — the Firth of Forth, with its islands, the embayment which is terminated by the Law of North Berwick, and the varied shores of”
“But Mannering was chiefly delighted with the view from the windows, which commanded that incomparable prospect of the ground between Edinburgh and the sea -- the Firth of Forth, with its islands, the embayment which is terminated by the Law of North”
“But Mannering was chiefly delighted with the view from the windows, which commanded that incomparable prospect of the ground between Edinburgh and the sea -- the Firth of Forth, with its islands, the embayment which is terminated by the Law of North Berwick, and the varied shores of Fife to the northward, indenting with a hilly outline the clear blue horizon.”
“The Apalachicola embayment is the major structural feature that dominates the geology of the reserve and river system.”
“Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica.”
“Average depth of the embayment is 2.7 meters (m) with channels extending to 17.7 m.”
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
“Shark Bay itself is a large shallow embayment, approximately 13,000 square kilometers (km2) in area, with an average depth of 9 m (maximum of 29 m).”
“The presence of many baby skeletons suggests that the place was a shallow and nutrient-rich embayment frequented for calving.”
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phrontistery - e
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ecclesiarchy, ecclesiastry, ecdemomania, echinuliform, echoism, echolalia, echopraxia, eclaircise, ?claircissement, eclat, ?clat, eclegme and 616 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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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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