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LANDSLIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
Synonyms:
landslide; landslip
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("landslide" is a kind of...):
slide ((geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landslide"):
mudslide (a landslide of mud)
rockslide (a landslide of rocks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An overwhelming electoral victory
Example:
Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("landslide" is a kind of...):
triumph; victory (a successful ending of a struggle or contest)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb landslide
Context examples:
Type II features are often thinner and longer than Type I, and are the most common type of landslide on Ceres.
(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)
Soil liquefaction, which causes this kind of landslide, occurs when the shaking from a large earthquake rips through moist, loose soil, overpowering the friction that normally holds dirt particles together.
(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)
Had there been no "Shame of the Sun" there would have been no landslide, and had there been no miracle in the go of "The Shame of the Sun" there would have been no landslide.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On Saturday, aftershocks of a powerful earthquake with reported magnitude 6.3 that struck southern Philippines on Wednesday night have increased the death toll of the extended event from five people to six due to a massive landslide following a 5.0 magnitude aftershock on Saturday.
(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)
These landslides are always associated with large impact craters, and may have formed when an impact event melts subsurface ice on Ceres.
(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)
In the deadly 2018 earthquake in the Indonesian city of Palu, intense shaking changed solid ground into a landslide of flowing mud, multiplying the death toll and economic impact.
(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)
There are three types of landslides.
(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)
In Palu, although early reporting blamed most of the estimated 2,000 fatalities on a tsunami, surveys soon showed that soil-liquefaction landslides caused at least as much damage as the ocean waves did.
(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)
The landslide deposits appear similar to those left behind by avalanches seen on Earth.
(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)
Images from Dawn show that landslides, many of which are similar to those seen on Earth, are very common on Ceres, and further the case that Ceres has a lot of water ice involved in its structure.
(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)
