cliff, drop, drop-off
(noun) a steep high face of rock; “he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town”; “a steep drop”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Shortening for the diminutive.
Cliff
A diminutive of the male given name Clifford or Clifton.
A surname.
An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.
A hamlet in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2198).
A neighbourhood, The Cliff in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8201).
A small settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland, appearing on OS maps as Cliobh (OS grid ref NB0835).
cliff (plural cliffs)
A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
Synonym: precipice
Hyponym: escarpment
Coordinate term: bluff
(figurative) A point where something abruptly fails or decreases in value etc.
cliff (plural cliffs)
(music) Obsolete form of clef.
Source: Wiktionary
Cliff, n. Etym: [AS. clif, cloef; akin to OS. klif, D. klif, klip, Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa; perh. orig. a climbing place. See Climb.]
Definition: A high, steep rock; a precipice. Cliff swallow (Zoöl.), a North American swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons), which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow.
Cliff, n. (Mus.)
Definition: See Clef. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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