Explore Meltwater through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like water. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Meltwater meaning
Water from melting ice or snow.
Synonyms of Meltwater
Using Meltwater
- The main meaning on this page is: Water from melting ice or snow.
- Useful related words include: water, h2o.
- In the example corpus, meltwater often appears in combinations such as: of meltwater, and meltwater, meltwater from.
Context around Meltwater
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Meltwater
- In this selection, "meltwater" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seeing, fact, less, pulse, feeds and reaching stand out and add context to how "meltwater" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1a and meltwater pulse 1b and amount of meltwater reaching ocean. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "meltwater" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and abdulai, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with meltwater
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But everywhere we look we are seeing meltwater. (8 words)
Popular tools include Hootsuite, Brandwatch, Sprout Social and Meltwater. (9 words)
Warmer winters mean less snowpack, and less meltwater in spring. (10 words)
Along with losing water that billions of people drink, the crops they grow and the energy they need, the great melting of North America's glaciers will affect ecosystems and the creatures within them, like the salmon that spawn in meltwater streams. (42 words)
Cluster 2 shows an efficient drainage system, where the speed of the ice can decrease in the middle of the melting season, when there is the most meltwater, as the drainage system suddenly becomes effective. (35 words)
Between meltwater pulse 1A and meltwater pulse 1B, the Younger Dryas was an interval of a significantly reduced rate of sea level rise relative to the periods of time before and after it. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Between meltwater pulse 1A and meltwater pulse 1B, the Younger Dryas was an interval of a significantly reduced rate of sea level rise relative to the periods of time before and after it.
Cluster 2 shows an efficient drainage system, where the speed of the ice can decrease in the middle of the melting season, when there is the most meltwater, as the drainage system suddenly becomes effective.
Popular tools include Hootsuite, Brandwatch, Sprout Social and Meltwater.
The dam traps rain and meltwater in the basin, which fills up throughout the spring and summer.
As they neared the coast, they discovered that a river of meltwater had formed while they were draining aquifers and taking cores.
Snowy peaks are called the “water towers” of the western US because their meltwater feeds its rivers through the hot summer.
Suicide Basin, a glacial lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, fills with rain and meltwater each year.
The vault was threatened by a flood of meltwater from thawing permafrost in 2017, highlighting the dangers posed by climate change, according to the statement.
But everywhere we look we are seeing meltwater.
In fact, Meltwater has made quite a few AI and social analytics acquisitions to consolidate its leadership in the media intelligence area.
Just to give you an idea, I have plotted the amount of meltwater reaching ocean from Peninsula as simulated by MAR forced by GFS.
Meltwater has increased global sea levels by 0.7-inches, it’s believed, and Greenland ice melt contributed 60-percent of that extra water.
Along with losing water that billions of people drink, the crops they grow and the energy they need, the great melting of North America's glaciers will affect ecosystems and the creatures within them, like the salmon that spawn in meltwater streams.
Last month, parts of the resort were flooded after a stream burst its bank due to a pocket of meltwater from the glacier above.
Meltwater has led to fish stocks disappearing from some rivers, according to the Federal Office for the Environment.
This finding means factors other than meltwater discharge also influence how and where the glacier melts.
Warmer winters mean less snowpack, and less meltwater in spring.
We take a spontaneous turn onto road F335 towards Hagavatn, where the meltwater from Langjökull pools into a lake, forming the river’s origin.
Epishelf lakes An epishelf lake forms when meltwater is trapped behind a floating ice shelf and the freshwater floats on the denser saltwater below.
Others are produced by fans or deltas created by meltwater.
Common combinations with meltwater
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of meltwater 5×
- and meltwater 4×
- meltwater from 3×
- meltwater has 3×
- meltwater pulse 2×
- meltwater in 2×