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cataract

C2 noun

cataract /ˈkætəˌɹæk(t)/ nghĩa là thác nước lớn

Các nghĩa

  1. thác nước lớn

    A (large) waterfall, specifically one flowing over the edge of a cliff.

    The cataracts on the Nile helped to compartment Upper Egypt.

    This Elephantis being an Iſland, is inhabited beneath the lovveſt cataract or fall of vvater three miles, and aboue Syene 16: […]

  2. ghềnh thác

    A flood of water; specifically, steep rapids in a river.

    broadly

    Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, / And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts.

  3. cơn mưa như trút, dòng chảy xiết

    An overwhelming downpour or rush; a flood.

    figuratively

    His cataract of eloquence

    Cataracts of declamation thunder here, / There foreſts of no-meaning ſpread the page / In vvhich all comprehenſion vvanders loſt; […]

    The palace bang'd, and buzz'd and clackt, / And all the long-pent stream of life / Dash'd downward in a cataract.

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