Definitions of geographical areas

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Definitions of geographical areas

Legg inn av singhals » 16 aug 2006 17:00:21

I remember when I took a couple Geography courses to buck up my GPA,
there were some definitions of what constituted a savannah or the
tidewater or the albemarle ...

What I can't find are my notes from that class? ;)

I've wasted 30 minutes or so with Google and Wikipedia and can't figure
out the right search terms to filter out Savannah Ga and Albemarle
county and refs to Tidewater Assn ...

Clues welcomed.

Cheryl

Alida Spry

Re: Definitions of geographical areas

Legg inn av Alida Spry » 16 aug 2006 18:27:28

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
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I remember when I took a couple Geography courses to buck up my GPA, there
were some definitions of what constituted a savannah or the tidewater or
the albemarle ...

What I can't find are my notes from that class? ;)

I've wasted 30 minutes or so with Google and Wikipedia and can't figure
out the right search terms to filter out Savannah Ga and Albemarle county
and refs to Tidewater Assn ...

Clues welcomed.

Cheryl


Why not just look them up in an online dictionary? Websters comes to mind.
Or try a google search like this: +geographic +terms +definitions

Hope that helps.

Alida

Huntersglenn

Re: Definitions of geographical areas

Legg inn av Huntersglenn » 16 aug 2006 21:40:03

Albemarle isn't a word for a geographical area -- part of the word
albemarle does refer to a geographical area, but not the whole word.
The areas in the U.S. that have that name, have it because they were
named for the Earl of Albemarle and not for any geographic reasons.

Tidewater has more then one geographical meaning - 1. Water that
inundates the land when the tide is very high, 2. River water and
streams that are effected by the tides, and 3. low, coastal lands.

A savannah and savanna is a flat, mostly treeless, grassland.

So, a piece of land could geographically be both a savannah and a
tidewater, provided the low, coastal lands were also flad and mostly
treeless. And, quite a few of the early settlers of the Albemarle
region of North Carolina came from the tidewater region of Virginia.
I've filtered out one term on google, but have never tried to filter out
more than one term, so I'm not sure that it can be done (if someone here
has done that, then we'll get to learn something new <grin>). I'm not
sure that the definitions will be that much help for you, either, but
hopefully they'll be of some use.

Cathy



singhals wrote:
I remember when I took a couple Geography courses to buck up my GPA,
there were some definitions of what constituted a savannah or the
tidewater or the albemarle ...

What I can't find are my notes from that class? ;)

I've wasted 30 minutes or so with Google and Wikipedia and can't figure
out the right search terms to filter out Savannah Ga and Albemarle
county and refs to Tidewater Assn ...

Clues welcomed.

Cheryl

BobLeavitt

Re: Definitions of geographical areas

Legg inn av BobLeavitt » 26 aug 2006 21:44:15

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:NdKdnVLSmNCO3H7ZnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@rcn.net...
I remember when I took a couple Geography courses to buck up my GPA,
there were some definitions of what constituted a savannah or the
tidewater or the albemarle ...

What I can't find are my notes from that class? ;)

I've wasted 30 minutes or so with Google and Wikipedia and can't figure
out the right search terms to filter out Savannah Ga and Albemarle
county and refs to Tidewater Assn ...

Clues welcomed.

Cheryl


20 seconds with Google got definitions of savannah & tidewater.

Try
define: savannah
and
define: tidewater

singhals

Re: Definitions of geographical areas

Legg inn av singhals » 27 aug 2006 16:28:28

BobLeavitt wrote:

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:NdKdnVLSmNCO3H7ZnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@rcn.net...

I remember when I took a couple Geography courses to buck up my GPA,
there were some definitions of what constituted a savannah or the
tidewater or the albemarle ...

What I can't find are my notes from that class? ;)

I've wasted 30 minutes or so with Google and Wikipedia and can't figure
out the right search terms to filter out Savannah Ga and Albemarle
county and refs to Tidewater Assn ...

Clues welcomed.

Cheryl



20 seconds with Google got definitions of savannah & tidewater.

Try
define: savannah
and
define: tidewater

Yes but I don't _want_ definitions of either. I HAVE definitions. I
want to see the list of words of a similar class.

Cheryl

BobLeavitt

Re: Definitions of geographical areas

Legg inn av BobLeavitt » 01 sep 2006 00:17:26

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:3PKdnUANDPuGJ2zZnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@rcn.net...
BobLeavitt wrote:

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:NdKdnVLSmNCO3H7ZnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@rcn.net...

I remember when I took a couple Geography courses to buck up my GPA,
there were some definitions of what constituted a savannah or the
tidewater or the albemarle ...

What I can't find are my notes from that class? ;)

I've wasted 30 minutes or so with Google and Wikipedia and can't figure
out the right search terms to filter out Savannah Ga and Albemarle
county and refs to Tidewater Assn ...

Clues welcomed.

Cheryl



20 seconds with Google got definitions of savannah & tidewater.

Try
define: savannah
and
define: tidewater

Yes but I don't _want_ definitions of either. I HAVE definitions. I
want to see the list of words of a similar class.

Cheryl


If you did not want definitions, why was the subject of your message "Definitions of geographic areas"? In your message, why did you not say you were looking for words "of a similar a class" (whatever that means) instead of talking about "definitions of what constituted a savannah . . .."

Obviously, I don't know exactly what it is you are looking for, but maybe http://www.answers.com might be of help

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