Get to know Laterite better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like soil or dirt.
Laterite in a sentence
Laterite meaning
A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.
Using Laterite
- The main meaning on this page is: A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.
- Useful related words include: soil, dirt.
- In the example corpus, laterite often appears in combinations such as: laterite road, laterite soils.
Context around Laterite
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Laterite
- In this selection, "laterite" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, utilised, gravel, skeletal, road, soils and ground stand out and add context to how "laterite" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from its laterite soils and and goa utilised laterite stones wood. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "laterite" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with laterite
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Goa utilised laterite stones, wood like jackfruit, rosewood and teak for furniture. (12 words)
That road is being graded without laterite, that is a recipe for poor feeder road works. (16 words)
A $318M contract was awarded to A and S General Construction Incorporated for the rehabilitation of laterite road. (18 words)
A narrow band of alluvial soils is found all along the east coast and at the mouths of the major rivers on the west coast; clay, sand, and limestone mixtures are found in the west; and shallow or skeletal laterite and limestone are located in the south. (47 words)
Lastly, according to him, the general dragged him repeatedly on the rough gravel (laterite) road which resulted to lacerations on his head and other parts of his body, including his face, arms, legs, and back. (35 words)
The land rising to the south and west of the southern clay plain is referred to as the Ironstone Plateau (Jabal Hadid), a name derived from its laterite soils and increasing elevation. (32 words)
Example sentences (13)
That road is being graded without laterite, that is a recipe for poor feeder road works.
About 20 rock engravings of human beings, animals like deer and bullocks, have been chiselled out on the laterite ground surface in four groups.
Goa utilised laterite stones, wood like jackfruit, rosewood and teak for furniture.
Lastly, according to him, the general dragged him repeatedly on the rough gravel (laterite) road which resulted to lacerations on his head and other parts of his body, including his face, arms, legs, and back.
With the road impassable, the mining company moved in to provide manpower and equipment, including excavators, graders, and tipper trucks, as well as laterite, during the three months of the works.
A $318M contract was awarded to A and S General Construction Incorporated for the rehabilitation of laterite road.
A narrow band of alluvial soils is found all along the east coast and at the mouths of the major rivers on the west coast; clay, sand, and limestone mixtures are found in the west; and shallow or skeletal laterite and limestone are located in the south.
In 1990-91 a two-lane laterite road was constructed between Kurupukari and Annai and a vehicle ferry installed at Kurupukari.
Its red, laterite, dense clayey soils retain water well, which limits their agricultural potential for many crops, but is ideal for keeping water in paddy fields and local village reservoirs.
Laterite cappings that are found in many districts over the Deccan Traps were formed after the cessation of volcanic activity in the early tertiary period.
Laterite soils have a high clay content, which means they have higher Cation Exchange Capacity and water-holding capacity than sandy soils.
The land rising to the south and west of the southern clay plain is referred to as the Ironstone Plateau (Jabal Hadid), a name derived from its laterite soils and increasing elevation.
The ruins that remain are of brick, sandstone and laterite, the wood elements having been lost to decay and other destructive processes.
Common combinations with laterite
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: