Riss

/ rɪs /

noun

1. the third major Pleistocene glaciation in Alpine Europe See also Günz Mindel Würm

Word History and Origins

Origin of Riss¹

C20: named after the river Riss , a tributary of the Danube in Germany

Example Sentences

But speaking in the run-up to the anniversary, Riss – who counted the dead among his greatest friends and says he does not go through a day without reliving the moment of the attack – refused to renounce hope.

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"The desire to laugh will never disappear," said Laurent Saurisseau – also known as Riss – a cartoonist who survived the 7 January attack with a bullet in the shoulder.

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"What our clients are looking for is to have their product presented in an outstanding - sometimes iconic - way," says Thomas Riss, chief executive of Stoelzle Flaconnage.

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"When I talked with my engineers, five years back, none of them would have ever come up with the idea of electric furnaces, because the mathematics didn't make sense. But this has changed now," says Mr Riss.

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“It’s something I have to work at every day, looking in the mirror and being, like, ‘You’re good enough, Riss.

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