OLDUVAI GORGE

Meaning of OLDUVAI GORGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈōl-də-ˌvī ]

geographical name

canyon Tanzania in N mainland SE of Serengeti Plain; contains fossil beds

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OLDUVAI GORGE — geographical name canyon Tanzania in N mainland SE of Serengeti Plain; contains fossil beds
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
OLDUVAI GORGE — Archaeological site in the eastern Serengeti Plains, northern Tanzania. It is a steep-sided ravine about 30 mi (48 km) long …
Английский словарь Британика
OLDUVAI GORGE — /awl"doo vuy'/ a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OLDUVAI GORGE — Olduvai also spelled Olduwai, archaeological site in the eastern Serengeti Plains, within the boundaries of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in …
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OLDUVAI GORGE — Pronunciation: ' ō l-d ə - ˌ v ī Function: geographical name canyon Tanzania in N mainland SE of Serengeti …
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OLDUVAI GORGE — Archaeological site in the eastern Serengeti Plains, northern Tanzania. It is a steep-sided ravine about 30 mi (48 km) long …
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OLDUVAI GORGE — Олдувай
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
GORGE — I. ˈgȯrj, -ȯ(ə)j noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin gurga, alteration of Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GORGE — (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
Английский словарь Webster
GORGE — ( n. ) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GORGE — gorge 1 — gorgeable , adj. — gorgedly /gawr"jid lee/ , adv. — gorger , n. /gawrj/ , n. , …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GORGE — I. ˈgȯrj noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin gurga, alteration of gurges, from Latin, whirlpool — more …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GORGE — noun the groove of a pulley. 2. gorge ·noun a defile between mountains. 3. gorge ·noun a concave molding; a …
Webster English vocab
GORGE — [gorge] n [ME, fr. MF, fr. LL gurga, alter. of gurges, fr. L, whirlpool--more at voracious] (14c) 1: throat--often used …
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OLDUVAI — Olduvai BrE AmE ˈɒld ə vaɪ ˈəʊld-, -u-, -ju- AmE \ ˈɔːld- ˈɑːld-, ˈoʊld- ▶ ˌ Olduvai ˈ Gorge BrE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GORGE — gorge BrE AmE ɡɔːdʒ AmE ɡɔːrdʒ ▷ gorged ɡɔːdʒd AmE ɡɔːrdʒd ▷ gorges ˈɡɔːdʒ ɪz -əz AmE ˈɡɔːrdʒ əz ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GORGE — / gɔːdʒ; NAmE gɔːrdʒ/ noun , verb ■ noun [ C ] a deep narrow valley with steep sides : …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GORGE — I. gorge 1 /ɡɔːdʒ $ ɡɔːrdʒ/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: French ; Origin: 'throat' , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GORGE — n. & v. --n. 1 a narrow opening between hills or a rocky ravine, often with a stream running through …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GORGE — n. & v. n. 1 a narrow opening between hills or a rocky ravine, often with a stream running through …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GORGE — n. & v. --n. 1. a narrow opening between hills or a rocky ravine, often with a stream running through …
Oxford English vocab
GORGE — ( gorges, gorging, gorged) 1. A gorge is a deep, narrow valley with very steep sides, usually where a river …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GORGE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE deep ▪ But it was the same deep gorge - and it was …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GORGE — (VALLEY) [noun] [C] - a deep narrow valley with steep sides, usually formed by a river or stream cutting through …
Cambridge English vocab
GORGE — • ↑ stuff/gorge yourself
Longman Activator English vocab
GORGE — n. 25B6; noun the river runs through a gorge : RAVINE, canyon, gully, defile, couloir; chasm, gulf; N. English clough, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GORGE — n. 1 ravine, canyon, defile, pass, chasm, fissure, crevasse, gully or gulley, wadi or wady, gap, Brit gill or ghyll, …
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OLDUVAI — Olduvai
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OLDUVAI — Olduvai
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GORGE — 1. сущ. 1) а) горло, глотка, пасть; зоб (у сокола) raise the gorge б) узкое ущелье, теснина в) перен. затор, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GORGE — gorge.ogg _I 1. gɔ:dʒ n 1. чрезмерный аппетит; обжорство 2. то, что съедено, проглочено to cast the gorge at smth. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
GORGE — 1) поясок ( колонны ) 2) строит. выкружка 3) строит. слезник 4) узкий проход 5) затор, пробка 6) канавка ( …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
GORGE — 1) поясок (колонны) 2) строит. выкружка 3) строит. слезник 4) узкий проход 5) затор, пробка 6) канавка (шкива) 7) швейн. горловина 8) швейн. обтачка горловины • - collar gorge - …
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GORGE — gorge сущ.1) а) горло, глотка, пасть; зоб (у сокола) - raise the gorge б) узкое ущелье, теснина в) перен. затор, …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
GORGE — _I 1. gɔ:dʒ n 1. чрезмерный аппетит; обжорство 2. то, что съедено, проглочено to cast the gorge at smth. - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
GORGE — 1. сущ. 1) а) горло, глотка, пасть; зоб ( у сокола ) - raise the gorge б) узкое ущелье, теснина …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
GORGE — 1. сущ. 1) а) горло, глотка, пасть; зоб (у сокола) - raise the gorge б) узкое ущелье, теснина в) затор, нагромождение, завал г) воен. (деталь фортификации) д) …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
GORGE — 1. _n. 1> то, что проглочено, съедено 2> пресыщение; отвращение; ярость; my gorge rises - я чувствую отвращение, меня тошнит …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
GORGE — 1. n. 1. то, что проглочено, съедено 2. пресыщение; отвращение; ярость; my gorge rises - я чувствую отвращение, меня тошнит …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
GORGE — 1. _n. 1> то, что проглочено, съедено 2> пресыщение; отвращение; ярость; my gorge rises я чувствую отвращение, меня тошнит; to …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
OLDUVAI — Olduvai
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
GORGE — 1. сущ. 1) а) горло, глотка, пасть; зоб (у сокола) raise the gorge б) узкое ущелье, теснина в) перен. затор, …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
OLDUVAI — Olduvai
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OLDOWAN INDUSTRY — Paleolithic (beginning с 2.5 million years ago) characterized by crudely worked pebble tools. Oldowan tools, made of quartz, quartzite, or …
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LEAKEY FAMILY — Family of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists known for their discoveries of hominid and other fossil remains in eastern Africa. Louis S.B. …
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HOMO HABILIS — (Latin; " dexterous man ") Extinct species of early hominid that inhabited parts of sub-Saharan Africa 2. 5–1.5 million years …
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AUSTRALOPITHECUS — (Latin; " southern ape ") Genus of extinct The group is believed to be ancestral to modern human beings ( …
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ARUSHA NATIONAL PARK — Preserve, northern Tanzania. Established in 1960, the park contains a rich variety of flora and fauna. It is the site …
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OLDOWAN — /ohl"deuh weuhn, awl"-/ , adj. Archaeol. of or designating a Lower and Middle Pleistocene industrial complex of eastern Africa, characterized …
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OLDOWAN — [ 'ɒldə(ʊ)wən ] ■ adjective Archaeology relating to or denoting an early Lower Palaeolithic culture of Africa, dated to about …
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STONE-TOOL INDUSTRY — any of several assemblages of artifacts displaying man's earliest technology, beginning more than 2 million years ago. These stone tools …
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PRIMATE — in zoology, any member of the mammalian order Primates, which includes the prosimians, monkeys, apes, and man. The order has …
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TANZANIA, FLAG OF — national flag consisting of triangles of green and blue separated by a black diagonal stripe with yellow fimbriations (narrow borders). …
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TANZANIA — officially United Republic of Tanzania, Swahili Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania East African country situated just south of the Equator. …
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SAINT-ACHEUL — locality near Amiens in the Somme River valley, Somme dpartement, Picardie region, northern France. Saint-Acheul is the type locality at …
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PLEISTOCENE SERIES — worldwide division of rocks deposited during the Pleistocene Epoch (1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago). It overlies rocks from the Pliocene …
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PENINJ MANDIBLE — also called Natron Mandible, an almost perfectly preserved fossil hominid jaw containing a complete set of adult teeth. It was …
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PALEOLITHIC PERIOD
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OLDOWAN INDUSTRY — toolmaking tradition characterized by crudely worked pebble (chopping) tools from the early Paleolithic, dating to about 2 million years ago …
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NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA — national conservation area in the Arusha region of northern Tanzania, southeast of Serengeti National Park. Occupying some 3,200 square miles …
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — American scientific society founded (1888) in Washington, D.C., by a small group of eminent explorers and scientists for the increase …
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LEAKEY, MARY DOUGLAS — ne Nicol born Feb. 6, 1913, London, Eng. died Dec. 9, 1996, Nairobi, Kenya English-born archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who made …
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LEAKEY, LOUIS S.B. — born Aug. 7, 1903, Kabete, Kenya died Oct. 1, 1972, London, Eng. in full Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey Kenyan archaeologist …
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