berm

Oznaczający (Angielski)

Noun

1. A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
2. A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
3. (Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
4. A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
5. A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
6. (Canada, US) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
7. A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
8. (New-Zealand, Pennsylvania) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
9. (Pennsylvania, Western) The edge of a road.

Verb

To provide something with a berm

Koncepcje

pobocze

Synonimy

verge

shoulder

bank

🏦

brae

cant

embankment

hard shoulder

mound

path

🛣️

terrace

shoulder of a road

Hassan’s Wall

shoulder of road

side of the road

cat walk

backshore terrace

coastal berm

berme

bed

🛏️

bench

Tłumaczenia

Berme

berma

berme

مصد

επιχωμάτωση

πρόσχωση

أكمة

Seitenstreifen

accotement

épaule

bas côté

talus antichars

butte de terre

mur de sable

berm

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/bɜː(ɹ)m/

Etymologia (Angielski)

Pokrewny z angielski: brim

In summary

From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).