English-German translations for glacier

• Gletscher der
  Die Gletscher schmelzen nicht überall. Glaciers are not melting everywhere.
  Ein Gletscher schmilzt schneller als eine Stahlschiene in ihrer Form erkaltet. Glaciers are being melted at a faster rate than steel rails are hardening in the mould.
  In den Alpen wird seit 1820 ein Rückgang der Gletscher festgestellt. We note that in the Alps, the glaciers have been melting since 1820.
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• Ferner der
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Definition of glacier

• A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill

Examples

• They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China

Related words

• glaciered
• glacier buttercup
• glacier water
• glacier bear
• glacier crowfoot
• glacier sedge
• rift in a glacier