"loess" meaning in English

See loess in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /lɜːs/ [UK], /ˈləʊɪs/ [UK], /ˈloʊ.əs/ [US], /lɛs/ [US], /lʌs/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-loess.wav Forms: loesses [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜːs, -əʊɪs, -oʊəs, -ʌs Etymology: Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*lewh₁-}}, {{bor|en|de|Löss||yellowish-gray soil}} German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), {{der|en|gsw|lösch||loose}} Alemannic German lösch (“loose”), {{cog|de|los}} German los, {{doublet|en|lease|notext=1}} lease Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} loess (countable and uncountable, plural loesses)
  1. (geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin. Wikipedia link: loess Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geology Synonyms: löss Derived forms: Loess Plateau, loessic Translations (sediment of eolian origin): лёс (ljos) [masculine] (Belarusian), льос (ljos) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 黃色 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 黄色 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 黃沙 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 黄沙 (hóng-sê) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 黃砂 (Chinese Cantonese), 黄砂 (wong⁴ sa¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 黃砂 (Chinese Mandarin), 黄砂 (huángshā) (Chinese Mandarin), 黃土 (Chinese Mandarin), 黄土 (huángtǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), spraš [masculine] (Czech), løss (Danish), löss (Dutch), Limburgse klei [common-gender] (Dutch), leŭso (Esperanto), lössi (Finnish), lœss [masculine] (French), Löss [masculine] (German), 黃砂 (Hakka Chinese), 黄砂 (vong¹¹ sa²⁴) (Hakka Chinese), lösz (Hungarian), loess [masculine] (Italian), 黄土 (ōdo) (alt: おうど) (Japanese), 黄砂 (kōsa) (alt: こうさ) (Japanese), 황사 (hwangsa) (alt: 黃砂) (Korean), loes (Malay), løss [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), løss [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), بادرفت (Persian), less [masculine] (Polish), loess [masculine] (Portuguese), loesse [masculine] (Portuguese), лёсс (ljoss) [masculine] (Russian), prapor [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), лес [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), les [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), spraš (Slovak), loess [masculine] (Spanish), лес (les) [masculine] (Ukrainian), hoàng thổ (Vietnamese), 黃砂 (Wu Chinese), 黄砂 (Wu Chinese)

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        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hakka translations",
        "Terms with Hokkien translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Wu translations",
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          "ref": "1987, Amy Shui, Stuart Thompson, “China and its people”, in Chinese Food and Drink, Wayland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:",
          "text": "The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 3:",
          "text": "They blast their sand westwards across the steppe, coating the foothills of the Brooks Range in an icing-sugar dust of the loose, windblown sand-silt mixture known as loess.",
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        "Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin."
      ],
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          "geology"
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        [
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          "silt"
        ],
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          "eolian"
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        "(geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin."
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        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
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    {
      "ipa": "/lɜːs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈləʊɪs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈloʊ.əs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lʌs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜːs"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊɪs"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʊəs"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌs"
    }
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    {
      "word": "löss"
    }
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    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "ljos",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лёс"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ljos",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "льос"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黃砂"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "wong⁴ sa¹",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黄砂"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黃砂"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "vong¹¹ sa²⁴",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黄砂"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "黃色"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "zh-min-nan",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "黄色"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "黃沙"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "hóng-sê",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "黄沙"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黃砂"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huángshā",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黄砂"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黃土"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huángtǔ",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黄土"
    },
    {
      "code": "wuu",
      "lang": "Wu Chinese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黃砂"
    },
    {
      "code": "wuu",
      "lang": "Wu Chinese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黄砂"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spraš"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "løss"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "löss"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "Limburgse klei"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "leŭso"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "lössi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lœss"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Löss"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "lösz"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "loess"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おうど",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ōdo",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黄土"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こうさ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōsa",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "黄砂"
    },
    {
      "alt": "黃砂",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hwangsa",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "황사"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "loes"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "løss"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "løss"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "بادرفت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "less"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "loess"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "loesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ljoss",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лёсс"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prapor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лес"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "les"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "spraš"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "loess"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "les",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лес"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "sediment of eolian origin",
      "word": "hoàng thổ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loess"
}

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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": n̂g-sek vs. zh-min-nan",
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