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# avalanche

«avalanche» in Mova's school dictionary: **a huge mass of snow, ice and rocks that suddenly slides…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an avalanche, avalanches)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An avalanche is a huge mass of snow, ice and rocks that suddenly slides fast down a mountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#m1)

2) An avalanche of something is a sudden very large amount of it, as in an avalanche of letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and safety lessons, avalanches happen after heavy snowfall or warm weather on steep slopes; skiers and climbers check avalanche warnings, carry beacons, and rescue dogs search for buried people. In everyday talk, an avalanche of homework or emails means too much at once.

### examples

- An avalanche buried the mountain road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#x1)
- Skiers must check the avalanche warning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#x2)
- Rescue dogs found the climber after the avalanche. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#x3)
- Loud noises do not usually start avalanches, despite the films. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#x4)
- We got an avalanche of birthday cards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#x5)
- The teacher faced an avalanche of questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#x6)
- An avalanche had fallen, not upon Rudy and his uncle, but very near them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/#x7)

### note

Countable. Myth: shouting rarely causes an avalanche; usually it is the weight of snow or a skier. A landslide is similar but of earth and rock.

### In the corpora

- [The deadliest danger is a pyroclastic flow, an avalanche of hot gas, ash and rock racing downhill at over 100 km/h.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «avalanche» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/avalanche/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.