Stoss is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stoss meaning
- Facing towards the flow of a glacier or fluid.
- Used to describe one side of roche moutonnée.
Using Stoss
- The main meaning on this page is: Facing towards the flow of a glacier or fluid. | Used to describe one side of roche moutonnée. | Facing towards the flow of a glacier or fluid.
Context around Stoss
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stoss
- In this selection, "stoss" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, veit, advanced, moved and claims stand out and add context to how "stoss" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1477 when stoss moved to and ice advanced stoss while a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stoss" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stoss
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Like Stoss' other large works, it required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders. (15 words)
The steepest side of the hill faces the direction from which the ice advanced (stoss), while a longer slope is left in the ice's direction of movement (lee). (29 words)
Stoss claims to be confident that the potential bid will not have to face a referendum and will have more chances of success than the Austrian one which has already collapsed from Innsbruck. (33 words)
Their eldest son Andreas was born there before 1477, when Stoss moved to Kraków, the royal capital of Poland, where he was commissioned to produce the enormous polychrome wooden Altar of Veit Stoss (Ołtarz Wita Stwosza) at St Mary's Church in Kraków. (43 words)
Stoss claims to be confident that the potential bid will not have to face a referendum and will have more chances of success than the Austrian one which has already collapsed from Innsbruck. (33 words)
The steepest side of the hill faces the direction from which the ice advanced (stoss), while a longer slope is left in the ice's direction of movement (lee). (29 words)
Example sentences (4)
Their eldest son Andreas was born there before 1477, when Stoss moved to Kraków, the royal capital of Poland, where he was commissioned to produce the enormous polychrome wooden Altar of Veit Stoss (Ołtarz Wita Stwosza) at St Mary's Church in Kraków.
Stoss claims to be confident that the potential bid will not have to face a referendum and will have more chances of success than the Austrian one which has already collapsed from Innsbruck.
Like Stoss' other large works, it required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders.
The steepest side of the hill faces the direction from which the ice advanced (stoss), while a longer slope is left in the ice's direction of movement (lee).