Definitions for cirque
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. cirque, corrie, cwmnoun

   a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cirquenoun

   A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CIRCUS, Cirquenoun

   An open space or area for sports, with seats round for the spectators.

   Etymology: circus, Latin.

   A pleasant valley, like one of those circuses, which, in great cities somewhere, doth give a pleasant spectacle of running horses. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   The one was about the cirque of Flora, the other upon the Tarpeian mountain. Edward Stillingfleet.

   See the cirque falls! th’ unpillar’d temple nods;
   Streets pav’d with heroes, Tyber choak’d with gods. Alexander Pope.

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1. Cirque

   A cirquecode: fra promoted to code: fr (French: [siʁk]; from the Latin word circuscode: lat promoted to code: la ) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire, meaning a pot or cauldron) and cwmcode: cym promoted to code: cy (Welsh for 'valley'; pronounced [kʊm]). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion. The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep. Cliff-like slopes, down which ice and glaciated debris combine and converge, form the three or more higher sides. The floor of the cirque ends up bowl-shaped, as it is the complex convergence zone of combining ice flows from multiple directions and their accompanying rock burdens. Hence, it experiences somewhat greater erosion forces and is most often overdeepened below the level of the cirque's low-side outlet (stage) and its down-slope (backstage) valley. If the cirque is subject to seasonal melting, the floor of the cirque most often forms a tarn (small lake) behind a dam, which marks the downstream limit of the glacial overdeepening. The dam itself can be composed of moraine, glacial till, or a lip of the underlying bedrock.The fluvial cirque or makhtesh, found in karst landscapes, is formed by intermittent river flow cutting through layers of limestone and chalk leaving sheer cliffs. A common feature for all fluvial-erosion cirques is a terrain which includes erosion resistant upper structures overlying materials which are more easily eroded.

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1. cirque

   A cirque is a deep, steep-walled, bowl-shaped basin in a mountain, typically a result of glacial erosion. It often contains a small, round lake and may also be the starting point for further glacial activity.

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1. Cirquenoun

   a circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects

2. Cirquenoun

   a kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height

3. Etymology: [F., fr. L. circus.]

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1. Cirque

   A cirque, can be a corrie or cwm which have an amphitheatre-like valley head, formed at the head of a valley glacier by erosion. The concave amphitheatre shape is open on the downhill side corresponding to the flatter area of the stage, while the cupped seating section is generally steep cliff-like slopes down which ice and glaciated debris combine and converge from the three or more higher sides. The floor of the cirque ends up bowl shaped as it is the complex convergence zone of combining ice flows from multiple directions and their accompanying rock burdens, hence experiences somewhat greater erosion forces, and is most often overdeepened below the level of the cirque's low-side outlet and its down slope valley. If the cirque is subject to seasonal melting, the floor of the cirque most often forms a tarn behind the moraine, glacial till or bedrock lip marking the downstream limit of glacial overdeepening of the basin, which serves as a dam at the outlet. Another form of cirque or makhtesh, found in Karst landscapes is formed by intermittent river flow cutting through layers of limestone and chalk leaving sheer cliffs. A common feature for all fluvial-erosion cirques is a terrain which includes erosion resistant upper structures overlying materials which are more easily eroded.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cirque in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cirque in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of cirque in a Sentence

1. Jerry Weintraub:

   I had faith in them, i believed in my artists. Everything's that's Cirque du Soleil right now -- contortionists, jugglers, acrobats -- those were the people I was around.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cirque
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cirque
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cirque
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cirque
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=cirque