Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hill or ridge of wind-blown sand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient fort with a hemispherical or conical roof.
- noun A mound, ridge, or hill of loose sand, heaped up by the wind on the sea-coast, or rarely on the shore of a large lake, as on Lake Superior.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geomorphology A ridge or
hill ofsand piled up by the wind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Whether you want to ride the dunes in dune buggies or tear them up with an ATV, this park will accommodate your needs.
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In effect, he cannot tell a sand dune from a sandworm.
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I saw them a couple weeks ago at CMJ, learned how to pronounce their name dune-yen, not dungeon, and found them strangely entertaining.
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That tee, once 60 yards from the edge of the dune, is now just two yards from a 40-foot drop into the ocean.
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This contact between the Kayenta Formation and Navajo Sandstone illustrates the local switch from a fluvial environment, periodically inundated with tongues of sand erg deposits, to a permanent onset of long term dune activity
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11: 27 AM happyseaurchin said ... dune is astounding ...
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"Minister van Schalkwyk's commitment addresses the potential impact of two proposed projects on Pondoland, namely dune mining along the coast, and the construction of the N2 toll road," he said.
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At the foot of the dune were the Shipwreck Tavern and other commercial buildings built of logs, or concrete cast and painted to resemble logs.
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Lyle Compton had called the dune-dwellers a giddy bunch, and their chitchat about UFOs and horoscopes confirmed that opinion.
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Now, any dictionary or Scotchman will tell you that a dune is a hill of loose sand.
qroqqa commented on the word dune
Philatelic term for the Arab microstates that around 1970 flooded the children's stamp-collecting market with brightly coloured gummed labels purporting to be postage stamps.
January 5, 2009
yarb commented on the word dune
Ha ha! I remember those. Bloody Sharjah and Fujairah!
January 6, 2009