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ARCTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow
Synonyms:
arctic; galosh; golosh; gumshoe; rubber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("arctic" is a kind of...):
overshoe (footwear that protects your shoes from water or snow or cold)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole
Synonyms:
Arctic; Arctic Zone; North Frigid Zone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Frigid Zone; polar region; polar zone (the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole; characterized by frigid climate)
Derivation:
Arctic (of or relating to the Arctic)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely cold
Example:
polar weather
Synonyms:
arctic; frigid; gelid; glacial; icy; polar
Classified under:
Similar:
cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to the Arctic
Example:
the Arctic summer
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
polar (of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles)
Derivation:
Arctic (the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole)
Context examples:
From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all manner of dogs and achieved to mastery over them.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"I told Weedon that I was afraid the warm climate would not agree with an Arctic animal."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
An Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago.
(Nunavut, NCI Thesaurus)
This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Coppermine River, which in turn flowed north and emptied into Coronation Gulf and the Arctic Ocean.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
During the winter, the Arctic receives very little sunlight and reflects less light.
(Earthshine, NASA)
The average Arctic sea ice extent for June was 350,000 square miles (7.7 percent) below the 1981–2010 average and 60,000 square miles larger than the smallest sea ice extent that occurred in 2010.
(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)
He had been on a whaling voyage in the Arctic, once—a voyage that was to have been for three years and which had terminated in shipwreck at the end of six months.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I found that he had been in command of a whaler which was due to return from the Arctic seas at the very time when my father was crossing to Norway.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The same circular pattern also showed up in ArcticDEM, a high-resolution digital elevation model of the entire Arctic derived from commercial satellite imagery.
(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
Also called: Tribal Health, Arctic Health, Alaska Native Health
(Native American Health, NIH)
