MOUNTAIN


Meaning of MOUNTAIN in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a coastal/desert/mountain etc environment

The storm caused significant damage to the coastal environment.

a mountain belt (= a long and wide area of mountains )

mountain belts such as the Himalayas

a mountain bike (= a strong bicycle for riding over rough ground )

They went out for a country ride on their mountain bikes.

a mountain chain

The town of Besançon lies at the end of the Jura mountain chain.

a mountain peak

All around are the spectacular mountain peaks of the Jungfrau region.

a mountain resort

mountain resorts in Colorado

a mountain road

A lot of concentration is needed on the narrow mountain roads.

a mountain/hilltop village

The paths lead to picturesque mountain villages.

distant mountains/hills

From here, you can look out to the distant hills.

mountain ash

mountain bike

mountain board

mountain goat

mountain guide

an experienced mountain guide

mountain lion

mountain scenery

This fascinating village is surrounded by magnificent mountain scenery.

mountain/mountainous country

a vast stretch of mountain country

rock/mountain climbing

the sea/mountain/country air

the salty smell of the sea air

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

distant

The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains .

Over the valley, a full moon was rising, and a chill wind was blowing down from the distant mountains .

The city fans upwards from the coast, its white towers climbing gracefully into the foothills of the distant mountains .

Still others were as darkly blue as distant mountains .

The only things to break the dusty tedium are distant mountains , ragged scars on the horizon.

Clouds like brassy cauliflowers form over the steel-blue blades of the distant mountain range that borders the plain.

Then the sun is gone and it's suddenly cold and the distant mountains are their night time black cut-out.

great

Seafarers who landed there thought they saw a great chain of mountains and heard the roaring of lions from them.

They see the lifeless briefs heaped upon their benches like great mountains in stark black and white.

What she needed was to sleep, and she tried to suppress the great mountain of self-pity that threatened to swamp her.

We moved on our hunting grounds from the Minnesota to the Platte and from the Mississippi to the great mountains .

It is like a man who storms up to the top of a great mountain and then just drops down.

Early on, studies of the equatorial regions revealed great volcanic mountain systems and several apparent large impact craters.

But the great mountains are different.

At last he came, hideous and huge, tall as a great mountain crag.

high

Even when besieged by the Romans, they built a mikva at the top of a high mountain in the desert.

The one lingering question this year is when the high mountain wilderness areas will become accessible.

An entire society was uprooted and destroyed, vanishing into the high mountains never to return.

The might of water overwhelmed dark earth, over the summits of the highest mountains .

Food is at its most plentiful during the short summer months, when the snow melts to uncover the higher mountain pastures.

The torrents are loosening high mountain rocks and soil, and are washing downstream with the gravel tiny flakes of gold.

There are undoubtedly higher mountains to climb, but something tells me underneath that Beatle wig lies a trace of genius.

But listen, if you lived a nomad's life wandering the high mountains you would understand.

■ NOUN

area

In mountain areas use motorised transport sparingly and park considerately.

In general, the mountain areas of the Auvergne experience a much colder winter climate with a long period of Permanent snow.

The scenery throughout the rugged mountain areas is dramatic.

We discovered a little-known mountain area near Ohau, and did a walk up the Temple valley which turned out quite exciting.

Most continental high mountain areas are well served by networks of mountain huts and refuges, usually offering dormitory accommodation.

Since almost all are high mountain areas , agricultural development is anyway unlikely but traditional agriculture for conservation objectives is supported.

bike

I quickly found that mountain bikes don't particularly spare you the bumps.

They cart in expensive mountain bikes to use the Paisley Woods bicycle trail.

Bike mugging: Leslie Mitchell, 16, was mugged by three men who stole his £300 mountain bike.

Beaty recalls one customer shopping for a package deal: a mountain bike and a sedan.

A man completed all the Munros with a mountain bike .

Horses, mountain bikes , and especially feet work well here.

In addition to the normal walking events this summer there is a section giving details of guided mountain bike rides.

biker

Not withstanding a single impudent win by a mountain biker in 1989, it would appear that the subject is now closed.

On weekends the Hub buzzes with fellow mountain bikers and outdoor enthusiasts resting and socializing.

We join the mountain bikers on their toughest test.

Bumps April 27 at Arapahoe Basin features mountain bikers racing on a mogul-studded course.

It's a region already popular both with casual and mountain bikers who don't have to contend with busy traffic.

Kathie Takach, hair stylist and mountain biker .

In part two: Reaching new heights ... mountain bikers find it tough at the top.

Hundreds of mountain bikers made Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire their home over the weekend.

chain

The whole mountain chain originated from this cleft as lava surged up and spilled down on both sides.

The edge of the overriding plate is crumpled and uplifted to form a mountain chain parallel to the trench.

They are crude and narrow compared to the Dwarf mines of the other mountain chains and prone to collapsing unexpectedly.

During that time continents, oceans, and mountain chains have moved horizontally and vertically through large distances.

The thickened edges of these rafts are of course the mountain chains such as the Andes.

Sibley lives in a remote corner of a remote mountain chain in the wilds of Arizona.

goat

In fact it seems likely that mountain goats are very successful at avoiding all these predators.

In truth, these peregrinations required the talents of a mountain goat .

If they are cornered by a predator, mountain goats will not hesitate to use their horns to defend themselves.

As in mountain goats and other animals, fighting occurs only between similarly matched individuals.

These have several compartments - four in the case of the mountain goat .

The predators that mountain goats appear to fear most are eagles.

During a typical summer's day, a mountain goat may travel around a kilometre in search of food.

But the mountain goat is big enough to have relatively few predators.

lion

California has not allowed mountain lion hunting for nearly 25 years.

Four Peaks is home to black bear, deer, javelina, bighorn sheep, mountain lions and other animals.

Voters made it a permanent ban in 1990 with the passage of Prop. 117, the so-called mountain lion initiative.

And although not mentioned in the initiative, it does mean mountain lions could eventually be hunted as part of that management.

One of my first memories was when he shot a mountain lion and he let me shoot it too.

Another woman was killed by a mountain lion in 1994.

San Jose was not yet a city of thirty thousand, Silicon Valley a stronghold of orchards and roaming mountain lions .

The likelihood of being killed by a mountain lion is still minimal.

pass

From the highest mountain pass to the busiest city centre.

Employees try to avoid mountain passes , commercial airports and major cities.

Its passengers swing around like boxed chickens in the back of a livestock lorry on a mountain pass .

Their bags were filled with food and provisions light to carry but strong enough to bring them over the mountain passes .

One of the bulls had been bitten by a wildcat one night, on a mountain pass coming down from Dolpo.

I knew that true love, real love, could not make its way through the mountain passes to North Chittendon.

And then, at last, I crossed a high mountain pass to discover smoke drifting across my route.

It offers a magnificent view of the entire Adirohdacks, following the Hudson and then darting through the high mountain passes .

peak

When you are ready, fly towards a mountain peak , and land.

And its figuration is clearly seen: three mountain peaks , surrounded by the circle of the globe.

The mountain peaks and ridges clawed at the sky and Maggie stopped thinking altogether.

It seemed to have collapsed on top of the horizon where its mists were blunting the mountain peaks .

All around are the spectacular mountain peaks of the Jungfrau region.

I was hitching a ride to arrive at a mountain peak by dawn.

They had touched down on the mountain peak , above the clouds.

You gain altitude constantly from the river lowlands until you are under the mountain peaks .

range

To reach this desolate spot you set off at sun-up and head toward mountain ranges which scarcely ever get closer.

It is a mountain range that dwarfs any subaerial system.

The latest software can imitate the texture of flesh or the topography of a mountain range .

Big white clouds sailed eastward toward the San Bernardino mountain range .

Clouds like brassy cauliflowers form over the steel-blue blades of the distant mountain range that borders the plain.

A wash cuts the mountain range in half.

Trails of misty Lochaber rain came down from the Nevis mountain range and the round purple heather-clad hills of Glen Loy.

The snow-capped peaks of the Sorondo mountain range provide a dramatic backdrop.

rescue

We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly, straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team.

This is a theme echoed by John Allen, leader of the Cairngorms mountain rescue team.

More than 100 rescuers including doctors, mountain rescue teams and other skiers, clawed at the snow.

This body acts as a guide to all mountain rescue teams.

Four-year-old Oscar went racing into the darkness as his owners helped make hot drinks for mountain rescue teams.

I was told that in Britain the weather has to be really dire before a mountain rescue search is called off.

I've been involved in the mountain rescue world for 14 years.

road

When he got outside he turned to the right, up to the mountain road leading to his home.

We bought an old pickup and scouted the winding mountain roads .

Depending on the driver's experience of mountain roads , anything from 7 to 9 hours' driving is involved.

Father Devine took a mountain road , and stopped the car.

The accident occurred Saturday on a little-used mountain road full of dangerous curves.

He had been driving along the twisting mountain roads when he'd crashed; that much she knew.

Jumblatt, now a government minister, planted trees along the mountain roads during the war.

stream

Immediately after the stile is a lovely little mountain stream crossed by stepping stones.

Or would he perhaps look upon a clear mountain stream and complain about the absence of raw sewage or Industrial effluents?

Spring streams are generally shorter, typically forming the tributaries of mountain streams.

A racing mountain stream ran through the centre of the village.

It creeps over the boulders on the beds of the mountain streams , grazing on algae.

It survived a dunking in a mountain stream , and brought back a picture of a retrieving hand to prove it.

We paddle on seas the green of cat's eyes, and seas as clear as mountain streams .

Its newly tamed garden has fine views and a fast-running mountain stream .

top

I imagined solemn covens chanting, straggling torchlight processions winding up to mountain tops , stone circles, sacred trees and springs.

On the eighteenth day a cloudy mountain top arose up across the sea.

When Abudah had made his way through this slimy cavern he emerged upon a mountain top in the clean air.

One last hike to a mountain top ?

The mountain tops hadn't been their chosen destination.

Straight and fast flew Bower-bird as he made for the mountain top .

Soon the two partners had landed on the mountain top , and they got busy among the berry bushes.

An intermediate sprint, whether at a mountain top or some other place along the route.

village

I have experienced this kind of world in the mountain villages of Crete.

In fact, she had spent her entire life in that impoverished mountain village .

Ancient tradition remains powerful, and stories of witches and snake charmers are still whispered high in the remote mountain villages .

Half day trip to the mountain village of Macugnaga.

We rounded Cape Andrea and anchored in Marciana Marina harbour below the same mountain village on the north side of the island.

It was then that the city pastors began asking their brethren in the mountain villages to organise sanctuary for the refugees.

In 1930 he went to Bavaria to see the passion play at the mountain village of Oberammergau.

In Asturias there was a strong tradition of early migration in the poor mountain villages .

■ VERB

climb

He climbed the glass mountain and the golden steps.

Hicks said, we just climbed your goddamn mountain .

We applaud this kind of person when they climb mountains , cross deserts, sail oceans and survive against incredible odds.

If climbing the mountain was easy, assembling a video record of May 3, I990, was not.

Asking for change can be likened to persuading some one to climb a mountain .

Itfelt like something else, like climbing a mountain that rose into the clouds and had no top and no end.

He climbed the mountain easily, reached the top, and disappeared.

They have climbed mountains and canoed for eight-day stretches in isolated wilderness.

surround

Their native land consisted of a central plain surrounded by mountains .

The annual recharge to this natural ground-water reservoir from the surrounding mountains is at least 700, 000 acre-feet.

Athens is surrounded by mountains which trap pollution.

Because Phaestos sits on a hill, we get a wide sense of the valley and the surrounding mountains .

It is a large village in open meadowland at the head of the Ziller Valley, and is surrounded by steep mountains .

There also are countless hiking trails near the lake and in the surrounding mountains .

In winter the situation is exacerbated by cold air which seals in the dirt, preventing it from escaping over surrounding mountains .

The Mormon Lake area is surrounded by ponderosa pines, and the lodge sits in a small valley surrounded by mountains .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Rocky Mountains

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The lodge is in the mountains of southern Idaho.

the Rocky Mountains

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A similar secret sanctuary for the president was constructed elsewhere in the mountains west of Washington.

It is the start of the tourist season and Katmandu is the gateway to the world's highest mountains, including Everest.

Perhaps they're going to spend the night on the mountain .

Since that time many independent Orc and Goblin tribes have taken root in the forests and mountains of that cold land.

The latest software can imitate the texture of flesh or the topography of a mountain range.

To see it one must usually climb into the mountains which surround its last preserve.

You still think of the mountains.

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