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Значения термина tidal bore на английском

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A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

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        Использование термина tidal bore на английском
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        Politicians, capitalists and officials are flotsam bobbing upriver on the tidal bore of invention.
        The Rational Optimist
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        Still the storm coursed northward like a horizon-spanning tidal bore.
        Night of Knives
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        The "secret supermoon" in September will lead to an even bigger tidal bore.
        The South African
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        The surge struck the cliff like a tidal bore and was pushed upward, bulging, rising.
        Stonewielder
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        A tall bulge of water like a tidal bore, but fast, faster than any wave he'd ever heard of.
        Stonewielder
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        With high water on the river and with a low tide this was all the tidal bore we would see.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
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        A tidal bore is when a wave travels up a river in the "wrong" direction, against the current.
        The South African
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        This causes a tidal bore to roll up the Colorado, and from all reports it was something to be avoided.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
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        More than 30 people were injured by a tidal bore in the Qiantang River in the eastern Zhejiang Province of China.
        The Irish Times
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        But the dimensions of the disaster became appallingly clear as Honor's fire smashed over his ships like a Sphinx tidal bore.
        Echoes Of Honor
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        In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend upstream.
        The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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        We might pass the ranch, or be carried against a rock-bound coast, or find difficulty in landing and be overwhelmed by the tidal bore.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
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        We stopped a little after 9.30 A.M. Now that we were nearing the Gulf we were sure there would be a tidal bore.
        Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
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        British Columbia, Canada The Qiantang Tidal Bore overtops its banks in China Low Tide Tsujuaq, Canada in the Arctic Monastery at Mont St. Michel, France.
        Radio NZ
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        Translations for tidal bore
        португальский
        macaréu
        испанский
        macareo
        каталонский
        mascaret