tor

noun

Definition of tornext
as in butte

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  1. butte
  2. bluff
  3. hogback
  4. scar
  5. precipice
  6. cliff
  7. crag
  8. scarp
Noun
  • Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota The buttes, bluffs, and pinnacles of the North Dakota badlands make for desirable backpacking come summer.
    Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Enchantment Resort Sedona, Arizona Snowbirds traveling south for winter can still catch white peaks on red-rock buttes in the high desert.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of butte
Noun
  • Dense residential neighborhoods and freeways sit directly beneath towering bluffs populated by mountain lions, which occasionally hop the fences of backyard swimming pools to feast on domestic cats and dogs.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Each time, the bluff was called, and Ukraine was able to better defend its territory. . . .
    Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of bluff
Noun
  • These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 8 June 2024
Definition of hogback
Noun
  • Denise Richards is one tough cookie, and she's got the battle scars to prove it.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Danny Pintauro is healing after a scooter accident during the holidays left him hospitalized with a large scar on his abdomen.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of scar
Noun
  • Humanity stands on the precipice of the most significant technological shift since the Industrial Revolution.
    Catherine D Henry, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Words like peak and summit and precipice get thrown around.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of precipice
Noun
  • One possible tailwind for drug M&A: a coming patent cliff.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Although part of the Thai mainland, Railay Beach is sometimes mistaken for an island because it’s cut off from its surroundings by impenetrable karst limestone cliffs and dense mangrove forests.
    Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of cliff
Noun
  • Here, coastal cliffs and crags are punctuated by black-sand beaches and rich rainforest hides a towering volcanic cone.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Yes, the final leg of your journey may be a bit lengthy, depending on your airport of choice, but the ride is accented by soaring mountain crags, centuries-old castles, and cliff-side vineyards.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of crag
Noun
  • The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of scarp
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