Precipice

  • 31precipice bond — noun (finance; informal) A bond that yields a high fixed income, but whose capital value can decline sharply if the stock market index falls • • • Main Entry: ↑precipice …

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  • 32Precipice National Park — Precipice is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 377 km northwest of Brisbane.Fact sheet* Area: 104.00 km² * Coordinates : coord|25|19|57|S|150|05|52|E|type:landmark region:AU * Date of establishment: 1989 * Managing authorities:… …

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  • 33Precipice (Battlestar Galactica) — Infobox Television episode | Title = Precipice Series = Battlestar Galactica Caption = Guilty of crimes punishable by death Season = 3 Episode = 2 Airdate = October 6, 2006 Production = 302 Writer = Ronald D. Moore Guests = Director = Sergio… …

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  • 34precipice — noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, from Latin praecipitium, from praecipit , praeceps headlong, from prae + caput head more at head Date: 1613 1. a very steep or overhanging place 2. a hazardous situation; broadly brink …

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  • 35Précipice — Gouffre Un gouffre désigne généralement, au sens propre, une cavité dont l entrée s ouvre dans le sol (par opposition à une caverne ou une grotte, dont l entrée s ouvre dans une paroi). Il existe de nombreux synonymes selon les régions: Aven,… …

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  • 36precipice — Synonyms and related words: bluff, cliff, crag, crest, escarpment, face, hilltop, knoll, lofty peak, mountaintop, palisade, palisades, peak, pic, pico, pike, pinnacle, point, scar, scarp, spur, steep, summit, tor, wall …

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  • 37precipice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cliff, drop, bluff, declivity. See vertical, obliquity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. crag, cliff, bluff; see hill , mountain 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. drop off, cliff, ledge, height, brink,… …

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  • 38precipice — prec·i·pice || presɪpɪs n. steep slope; cliff; chasm; brink of an abyss; danger, risk, peril …

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  • 39precipice — n. Cliff, crag, steep, abrupt declivity, clift …

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  • 40precipice — n cliff, bluff, crag, steep, Chiefly Scot. linn; incline, rocky eminence, palisades, palisado, scarp, escarpment, rocky headland, tor; promontory, ridge, edge of a canyon or crevasse …

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