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Terrace vs Steppe - What's the difference?

terrace | steppe |

As a proper noun terrace

is a city in british columbia, canada.

As a noun steppe is

steppe.

terrace

English

(wikipedia terrace) {, style="float: right; clear:right;" , , , }

Noun

(en noun)
  • A platform that extends outwards from a building.
  • *
  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace , explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  • A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
  • A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
  • (in the plural, chiefly, British) The standing area at a football ground.
  • (chiefly, Indian English) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
  • See also

    * (l)

    Verb

    (terrac)
  • To provide something with a terrace.
  • To form something into a terrace.
  • Anagrams

    *

    steppe

    English

    (wikipedia steppe)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Similar to (North American) prairie and (African) savannah.
  • More properly, the name given vast cold, dry grass-plains.
  • * Grasslands: The Steppe biome is a dry, cold, grassland that is found in all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica. It is mostly found in the USA, Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet and China. There isn't much humidity in the air because Steppe is located away from the ocean and close to mountain barriers. http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/steppe.htm - 8k
  • Usage notes

    * Although it may be the steppe biome, one would not normally speak of the steppes of Canada, whereas one would speak of the steppes of Asia or the steppes of Russia.

    See also

    * US prairie * savannah * plain * (South African) veld

    References

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