upthrow — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To throw or cast upwards.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • poetico

   Esempi

   For fifty tons of water were upthrown / By them per hour [...].

2. To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.

   Uso

   • transitivo

3. To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • of a mass of material

Sostantivo

1. A fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below.

Sostantivo

1. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

   Sinonimi

   upheavalupliftupthrust

   Termini più generali

   riserisingascentascension