Explore Antarctic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like continent or polar. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Antarctic meaning
Alternative spelling of Antarctic.
Synonyms of Antarctic
Using Antarctic
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of Antarctic.
- Useful related words include: continent, south-polar, polar, antarctic zone.
- In the example corpus, antarctic often appears in combinations such as: the antarctic, antarctic ice, and antarctic.
Context around Antarctic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Antarctic
- In this selection, "antarctic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, british, east, french, ice, survey and sea stand out and add context to how "antarctic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the east antarctic ice sheet and antarctic sea ice. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "antarctic" sits close to words such as affirmative, akufo and buchanan, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with antarctic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A sea lion takes a siesta in the Antarctic sun. (10 words)
Antarctic sea ice has been growing sluggishly and staying at record lows for each month since April. (17 words)
He has been awarded REX Karam – Veer Chakra and became the 2041 Antarctic Youth Ambassador from India. (17 words)
By 1925, with the advent of the stern slipway in factory ships and the use of steam-driven whale catchers, the catch of blue whales, and baleen whales as a whole, in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic began to increase dramatically. (41 words)
However, Antarctica’s ice sheet — composed of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — is not a giant mass of stationary ice but rather a system with inputs and outputs of matter and energy. (38 words)
They attribute the threefold increase in ice loss from the continent since 2012 to a combination of increased rates of ice melt in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, and reduced growth of the East Antarctic ice sheet. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Hobart is the home port for the Australian and French Antarctic programs, and provides port services for other visiting Antarctic nations and Antarctic cruise ships.
Antarctic sea ice varies a lot year-to-year, but even by Antarctic standards this is well outside the bounds of normality.
The UK and Chile also agreed to continue close co-operation on Antarctic issues and to prepare a new UK-Chile Statement on Antarctic Co-operation.
This has also meant the official end of the Argentine Antarctic Campaign 2022/23, which takes place under the operational command of the Joint Antarctic Command.
Clara will join researchers at British Antarctic Survey with a project entitled “Exploring plastic waste removal options to minimize local introduction of micro-plastics in the Antarctic environment”.
The work in an "environmentally sensitive location and Antarctic conditions" requires the management of "significant safety and environmental risks," according to the Australian Antarctic Program.
However, Antarctica’s ice sheet — composed of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — is not a giant mass of stationary ice but rather a system with inputs and outputs of matter and energy.
They attribute the threefold increase in ice loss from the continent since 2012 to a combination of increased rates of ice melt in West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, and reduced growth of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
A major and permanent cooling step occurred between 14.8 and 14.1 Ma, associated with increased production of cold Antarctic deep waters and a major growth of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
By 1925, with the advent of the stern slipway in factory ships and the use of steam-driven whale catchers, the catch of blue whales, and baleen whales as a whole, in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic began to increase dramatically.
Protector is a dedicated Antarctic patrol ship that fulfils the nations mandate to provide support to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
And so many of the places scientists find records of past climate conditions — in Antarctic ice or among tiny fossilized sea creatures in rock at the bottom of the ocean — seem so far away.
Antarctic sea ice has been growing sluggishly and staying at record lows for each month since April.
An update from the Scientific Assessment Panel to the Montreal Protocol confirms that the ozone layer is recovering, and ozone levels are expected to return to 1980 levels by around 2066 over the Antarctic.
A sea lion takes a siesta in the Antarctic sun.
British Antarctic Survey researchers looked at satellite images that showed the loss of sea ice at breeding sites, well before chicks would have developed waterproof feathers.
Carpenter chooses to open his film with a of a dog leaping across the Antarctic, on the run from a bunch of military dudes on a helicopter hell-bent on killing the creature.
David Holland, a New York University climate scientist, says A23A is now floating in the Antarctic circumpolar current, the world's strongest current, located in the Southern Hemisphere.
Dr. Rob Larter, a marine geophysicist with the British Antarctic Survey, emphasized the difficulty of finding something the size of the submersible, which is about 22 feet long and 9 feet high.
He has been awarded REX Karam – Veer Chakra and became the 2041 Antarctic Youth Ambassador from India.
Common combinations with antarctic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: