Glacier vs Calve - What's the difference?
glacier | calve |
To give birth to a calf.
To assist the giving of birth of a calf.
To break off or shed a large piece.
As a noun glacier
is (geology) a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.As a verb calve is
to give birth to a calf.calve
English
Verb
(calv)- The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.
- The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.
