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Значения термина calve off на английском

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A large section of the glacier-manythousands of tons-calvedoff into the sea.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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Huge blocks of ice calved off and collapsed into tidal waves of icy slush.
BBC
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Something inside him was softening, uncurling, anxiety calving off him like a glacier melting.
Water, stone, heart
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The icebergs nearby squealed with a frightful noise, as ice calved off the frigid masses.
The saint of dragons
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As the first to attempt the route since the rock calved off, he's essentially re-establishing it.
Climbing Magazine
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The permit required that only floating ice that had already calved off a glacier be harvested.
The Guardian
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The giant block that's calved off the Larsen C ice shelf weighs about a trillion tonnes.
Radio NZ
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An iceberg half the size of Greater London has calved off Pine Island glacier in the Antarctic.
The Guardian
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Scientists say that the 720-sqkm iceberg calved off in a natural event unrelated to the effects of global warming.
The Guardian
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Bergs were calving off as we watched: and capsizing: and hitting other bergs, splitting into two and falling apart.
The Worst Journey in the World / Antarctic 1910-1913
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It was the stage for tragedy last month, when parts of the serac calved off, killed several climbers and swept away fixed lines.
Climbing Magazine
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One time old Master and another man come and took some calves off and Pappy say old Master taking dem off to sell.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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While I was unlucky to have been there when a piece calved off, I was lucky David's quick action with the rope saved me.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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'Paw thinks,' he says, 'that he might manage to take them hundred and fifty bull calves off your hands.'
Somewhere in Red Gap
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The largest iceberg that calved off of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf into the Ross Sea measured about 7 miles long by 4 miles wide.
Wired