Englisch-Deutsch Übersetzung für calve
- kalben
- sich lösen
- werfenVöllig zu Recht werfen uns die Inuits, die ich getroffen habe, die unsägliche Form vor, in der wir Kälber, Puten und Schweine aufziehen, ohne Licht und Raum. The Inuits, whom I have met, rightly come back to us with the abominable way in which we raise calves, turkeys and pigs, deprived of light and space.
Definition für calve
- to give birth to a calf
- to give birth to (a calf
- to break off
- to shed ; to set loose , e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg
Anwendungsbeispiele
- The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched
- The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier
- When an iceberg breaks off from a large ice shelf along an existing fissure, it looks like a large, flat rectangle. Typically, only 10 percent of an iceberg is visible above the water. As it calved, the iceberg may have been smooth and flat underneath, but ocean currents would have quickly changed it.
- The glacier was starting to calve an iceberg even as we watched
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