Avalanche
noun
A mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling quickly down a mountainside.
The climbers were caught in an avalanche.
Often appears as...
- cause an avalanche
- get caught in an avalanche
noun
A sudden arrival or occurrence of something in overwhelming quantities.
I received an avalanche of emails about the project.
Often appears as...
- avalanche of emails
- avalanche of complaints
noun
A cascade process in which particles, electrons or ions, etc., are transmitted through a material.
This experiment involves the observation of avalanche ionization.
Often appears as...
- avalanche breakdown
- avalanche ionization
Usage tips
Technical
verb
(of a mass of snow, ice, and rocks) fall rapidly down a mountainside.
The mountain avalanched huge rocks and snow.
Often appears as...
- the mountain avalanched
- the snow avalanched down
verb
Arrive in overwhelming amounts or quantities.
Applications have avalanched in from all over the country.
Often appears as...
- offers avalanched in
- complaints have avalanched
noun
A mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling quickly down a mountainside.
The climbers were caught in an avalanche.
Often appears as...
- cause an avalanche
- get caught in an avalanche
noun
A sudden arrival or occurrence of something in overwhelming quantities.
I received an avalanche of emails about the project.
Often appears as...
- avalanche of emails
- avalanche of complaints
noun
A cascade process in which particles, electrons or ions, etc., are transmitted through a material.
This experiment involves the observation of avalanche ionization.
Often appears as...
- avalanche breakdown
- avalanche ionization
Usage tips
Technical
verb
(of a mass of snow, ice, and rocks) fall rapidly down a mountainside.
The mountain avalanched huge rocks and snow.
Often appears as...
- the mountain avalanched
- the snow avalanched down
verb
Arrive in overwhelming amounts or quantities.
Applications have avalanched in from all over the country.
Often appears as...
- offers avalanched in
- complaints have avalanched
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Disaster
Refers to a sudden, catastrophic event involving nature.
The documentary highlighted the devastating effects of an avalanche on small villages.
Pro Tip 2/3Unpredictable Danger
Stresses the sudden and often unexpected nature of this event.
Hikers fear the risk of an avalanche most in spring.
Pro Tip 3/3Rapid Descent
Emphasizes the speed and force of the falling mass.
The sheer velocity of the avalanche made escape impossible.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Disaster
Refers to a sudden, catastrophic event involving nature.
The documentary highlighted the devastating effects of an avalanche on small villages.
Pro Tip 2/3Unpredictable Danger
Stresses the sudden and often unexpected nature of this event.
Hikers fear the risk of an avalanche most in spring.
Pro Tip 3/3Rapid Descent
Emphasizes the speed and force of the falling mass.
The sheer velocity of the avalanche made escape impossible.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Disaster
Refers to a sudden, catastrophic event involving nature.
The documentary highlighted the devastating effects of an avalanche on small villages.
Pro Tip 2/3Unpredictable Danger
Stresses the sudden and often unexpected nature of this event.
Hikers fear the risk of an avalanche most in spring.
Pro Tip 3/3Rapid Descent
Emphasizes the speed and force of the falling mass.
The sheer velocity of the avalanche made escape impossible.
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How you can use impostor...
challenging them and saying were they really serious about this. And in doing so, I managed to kick a very small rock off a very big hill that turned into an avalanche that I found myself tumbling in the middle of. Because you see, a few hours later, Elon tweeted me back and said that they were deadly serious, that within a hundred days of contract signing,
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People and Bears Live in...
want to do the right thing just like somebody in a city would check the traffic conditions before they go out on the road or skiers would check the avalanche conditions before they go skiing we will have resources available to educate people in terms of where they should and shouldn't be recreative based on wildlife sensitivities so that people
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She's a Big Mountain...
felt like being a female in the mountains is different than being a male in the mountains and maybe we should start like an all-women's a vilage clinic I think it's super important to be an amount of other women and I think all sometimes we're normally outnumbered right when you start learning about avalanche awareness it's like oh this is
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Ski Patrol PIPE National...
within eight minutes they had located me and I was blue and unbreathing things can quickly turn serious when you need help on the mountain but you improve your chances by wearing an avalanche homing device or by having a computer
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After the Avalanche:...
I'd come home and we'd gloss over everything and there's this event, this avalanche, going back to it started to appear as the event that sparked this great divide in my life, because it had shot me in one direction upwards.
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Snowflake Science to...
It came out of nowhere. When you're caught in an avalanche, it's terrifying. FRANCESCA Most avalanche deaths are caused by suffocating under deep drifts or from the blunt force trauma inflicted
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Stories that tell...
two were caught in an avalanche in Washington State my colleagues when my colleagues and I wanted to create a unique kind of reading experience where the multimedia and all the different
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Capturing the Impact of...
seriously buried an avalanche you can imagine the feeling that you must be having when you see her a retriever digging the hole open and saving your life I mean it's got to be a moment
Video examples
Inches from an Avalanche...
of the mountain he can't believe his eyes an overhanging ledge has protected Jose in hey-zeus as the avalanche steamrolled over the brothers are thrilled to be alive
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A Collection Of Wild...
avalanches as snow thunders down the mountainside mammals are often buried beneath it's thought wolverines can sniff out frozen carcasses even deep beneath the snow
Video examples
How you can use impostor...
challenging them and saying were they really serious about this. And in doing so, I managed to kick a very small rock off a very big hill that turned into an avalanche that I found myself tumbling in the middle of. Because you see, a few hours later, Elon tweeted me back and said that they were deadly serious, that within a hundred days of contract signing,
Video examples
People and Bears Live in...
want to do the right thing just like somebody in a city would check the traffic conditions before they go out on the road or skiers would check the avalanche conditions before they go skiing we will have resources available to educate people in terms of where they should and shouldn't be recreative based on wildlife sensitivities so that people
Video examples
She's a Big Mountain...
felt like being a female in the mountains is different than being a male in the mountains and maybe we should start like an all-women's a vilage clinic I think it's super important to be an amount of other women and I think all sometimes we're normally outnumbered right when you start learning about avalanche awareness it's like oh this is
Video examples
Ski Patrol PIPE National...
within eight minutes they had located me and I was blue and unbreathing things can quickly turn serious when you need help on the mountain but you improve your chances by wearing an avalanche homing device or by having a computer
Video examples
After the Avalanche:...
I'd come home and we'd gloss over everything and there's this event, this avalanche, going back to it started to appear as the event that sparked this great divide in my life, because it had shot me in one direction upwards.
Video examples
Snowflake Science to...
It came out of nowhere. When you're caught in an avalanche, it's terrifying. FRANCESCA Most avalanche deaths are caused by suffocating under deep drifts or from the blunt force trauma inflicted
Video examples
Stories that tell...
two were caught in an avalanche in Washington State my colleagues when my colleagues and I wanted to create a unique kind of reading experience where the multimedia and all the different
Video examples
Capturing the Impact of...
seriously buried an avalanche you can imagine the feeling that you must be having when you see her a retriever digging the hole open and saving your life I mean it's got to be a moment
Video examples
Inches from an Avalanche...
of the mountain he can't believe his eyes an overhanging ledge has protected Jose in hey-zeus as the avalanche steamrolled over the brothers are thrilled to be alive
Video examples
A Collection Of Wild...
avalanches as snow thunders down the mountainside mammals are often buried beneath it's thought wolverines can sniff out frozen carcasses even deep beneath the snow
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Barack Obama
American President
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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Michelle Obama
American First Lady
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
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James Belushi
American Actor
What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.
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Chelsea Cain
American Novelist
People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.
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Roseanne Barr
American Actress
Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.
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Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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John Muir
American Environmentalist
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
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Shakira
Musician
You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
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Vernor Vinge
American Writer
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Polish Poet
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Quote examples
Michelle Obama
American First Lady
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
Quote examples
James Belushi
American Actor
What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.
Quote examples
Chelsea Cain
American Novelist
People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.
Quote examples
Roseanne Barr
American Actress
Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.
Quote examples
Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
Quote examples
John Muir
American Environmentalist
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
Quote examples
Shakira
Musician
You feel that there is an avalanche coming when you meet the right person.
Quote examples
Vernor Vinge
American Writer
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Quote examples
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Polish Poet
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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