Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rugged range of mountains having an irregular or jagged profile. See Usage Note at redundancy.
- n. A Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus sierra) of the Pacific coast of tropical America.
- n. See cero.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A chain of hills or mountains: used as part of the name of many mountain-chains in Spanish or formerly Spanish countries: as, the Sierra. Nevada (in Spain and in California).
- n. A scombroid fish, Scomberomorus caballa, a kind of Spanish mackerel. The sides of the body of the young are relieved by indistinct dark-yellowish spots, which are lost in the adult, and the spinous dorsal has no anterior black blotch. It is the largest species of its genus, and occasionally reaches a weight of 100 pounds. It inhabits the tropical Atlantic, and rarely visits the southern coast of the United States.
- n. Same as chromosphere.
Wiktionary
- n. A rugged range of mountains.
- n. The letter S in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- n. a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
Etymologies
- Spanish, saw, sierra, from Latin serra, saw.
Examples
“Afterwards, I flew out of San Andres in a light aircraft and had an opportunity to view the Huichol sierra from the air.”
“I purchased some Federal 140 grain sierra boat tails that the rifle really likes to shoot.”
“And the first hour and a half of that, from Tuxpan to the foot of the sierra, is actually pretty good, including a short stretch of autopista from Tuxpan to Tihuatlan.”
“Kristen said: On January 29, 2009 sierra is absolutely adorable and baxter is such a good sport. can’t wait to see the pink fancypants. shimarella said: On January 29, 2009”
“January 08, 2007 9: 27 PM sierra aka gen lover! said ... oops, sorry for the double post. still loving Eugenides!!!”
“M. Faye, of the French Academy, inclined to a lunar origin for them; [193] Feilitsch of Greifswald published in 1852 a treatise for the express purpose of proving all the luminous phenomena attendant on solar eclipses -- corona, prominences and "sierra" -- to be purely optical appearances. [”
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
“Spanish geographers would call them a "sierra" (saw) -- a phrase which they have applied to the Andes of America.”
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A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
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Girls Names
List of Girls names.
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