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Cirque vs Tran - What's the difference?

cirque | tran |

As nouns the difference between cirque and tran

is that cirque is (geology) a curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley while tran is forehead.

cirque

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 344:
    • Of course it's going to be bad whever the clouds let loose, but up here pussyfooting along the perimeter of toothy cirques and dead drops of anywhere from eighty to three hundred feet, it would be a disaster.

    Synonyms

    * corrie * cwm

    References

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    tran

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)