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Перевод: scarp

[существительное]
эскарп [воен.] ; откос ; крутой откос; крутой склон;
[глагол]
делать отвесным; делать крутым; эскарпировать

Тезаурус:

1. Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same, or so it appeared until, somewhere in the frame, I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards, a tree was missing, a scarp subtly altered, and one had the sense of some immensely leisured, tranquil calibration of infinity.
2. Although large areas of grassland still remain on unploughable slopes, particularly on the north-facing scarp, they have largely changed in character.
3. As Sabadell (1988) has discussed, remedial measures have been initiated, beginning in 1958 with the Salinity Control Reclamation Project I (SCARP).
4. This book chronicles a period of intermittent family life spent on the Hebridean island of Scarp, mostly during the 1970s.
5. With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland.
6. Currently SCARP V is in operation, the aim of which is to encourage pumping from non-saline groundwater areas in order to ameliorate waterlogging problems.
7. At the foot of the scarp slope of the Downs are the two formations of the Upper Greensand and Gault Clay; both are very narrow, and the first is largely buried beneath the Chalk.
8. The entire north face is a very steep scarp which reaches in places to a height of over 240 metres, but to the south is a more gentle dip slope towards the sea.
9. Scarp: is rugged beauty, its gradual depopulation, its sheep fanks, blackhouses and shielings.
10. of the total grassland area occurs in large blocks in the main river valleys and levels, and perhaps nearly as much as a continuous band along the north scarp of the Downs which is too steep to plough.
11. The Adams first visited Scarp in 1963, "It was as though we had disembarked on the flowery slopes of Heaven".
12. Along the north scarp of the Downs runs a series of parishes with land evenly distributed from the foot, and across the different soils to their northern boundaries.
13. Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp, "When the artists move in on a way of life, that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay", but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty.