noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outcrop of rock (= a mass of rock that sticks up above the ground )
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The gulls nested on a outcrop of rock.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rocky
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The Park is a large area of open country with rocky outcrops , ancient buildings and a small river.
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She found Wynne-Jones resting in the overhang of a rocky outcrop , exhausted, wretched, starving.
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At the bottom end of the playing fields is a rocky outcrop .
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One last rocky outcrop of headland; it seemed to take an age to round. the waves began to decrease.
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Aboriginals still point to various rocky outcrops or sandstone gullies which trace the Myndie Snake's progress through the outback.
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There were many rocky outcrops higher up, and here we found two more tern species nesting.
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Circling a frozen pond, we made our way uphill to rocky outcrops .
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This is truly wild country dotted with rocky outcrops and, even on a clear day, occasional compass checks are reassuring.
■ NOUN
rock
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Before the days of intensive quarrying, natural rock outcrops were of great significance.
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Protection from the prevailing wind can often be provided by rock outcrops or carefully planted shrubs in the background.
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He pressed on and on, resting only briefly on a rock outcrop before continuing.
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A rock outcrop , set into the bank, acts as host to a stream that tumbles into the water below.
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Well over thirty distinct hard-rock types, each representing a different rock outcrop , were utilised for artefacts in the prehistoric period.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first we thought it might be an outcrop of magnetic rock, but all the geological evidence was against it.
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But these are only the outcrops of a conviction which underlies all his teaching about his own mission.
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Now, with dynamite, the excavators were nibbling back each outcrop farther and farther away from the center.
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On an outcrop of rock, Kitty Dawson looked down on the valley for a few minutes.
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She found Wynne-Jones resting in the overhang of a rocky outcrop , exhausted, wretched, starving.
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The Park is a large area of open country with rocky outcrops, ancient buildings and a small river.
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There were occasional stark outcrops of rock and dark pools like tiny versions of the lochans he dimly remembered from his homesite.
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This granodiorite temper was found to be similar to the outcrop close to Mountsorrel on the eastern part of Charnwood Forest.