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# glacial

«glacial» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with glaciers or ice, as in «glacial valleys»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (glacial)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Glacial means to do with glaciers or ice, as in «glacial valleys». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#m1)

2) Glacial means extremely cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#m2)

3) Glacial means very slow, as in «at a glacial pace». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#m3)

4) (informal) Glacial can describe someone who is very unfriendly and cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons: glacial erosion, U-shaped glacial valleys, the Ice Age; in everyday talk and stories, a glacial wind or a glacial look; phrases: glacial valley, glacial period, glacial pace.

### examples

- Glaciers carved this U-shaped glacial valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#x1)
- A glacial wind blew off the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#x2)
- Traffic moved at a glacial pace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#x3)
- She gave him a glacial stare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#x4)
- The lake was formed in the last glacial period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glacial/#x5)

### note

Say it «GLAY-shul». The noun is «glacier» (river of ice). «Glacial pace» is an idiom meaning very slow.

### In the corpora

- [For the last 2.6 million years Earth has swung between cold glacial periods and warmer interglacials.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/4/)
- [During the last 2.6 million years the Earth has swung between cold glacial periods and warm interglacials.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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