boulder
or bowl·der
a detached and rounded or worn rock, especially a large one.
Origin of boulder
1Other words from boulder
- bouldered, adjective
- boul·der·y, adjective
Words that may be confused with boulder
Words Nearby boulder
Other definitions for Boulder (2 of 2)
a city in N Colorado.
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How to use boulder in a sentence
They found that boulders in this area showed bright veins, narrow in width but about a meter in length, similar to what’s found in other carbonaceous chondritic meteorites that have landed on Earth.
Asteroid Bennu may have been home to ancient water flows | Neel Patel | October 8, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewWhen NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived at near-Earth asteroid Bennu, scientists were dismayed to find a surface covered with hazardous-looking boulders.
The asteroid Bennu’s brittle boulders may make grabbing a sample easier | Lisa Grossman | October 8, 2020 | Science NewsShe continues to boulder and sport-climb both at the gym and outdoors.
Why Experts Are Exploring Climbing as a Form of Therapy | Ula Chrobak | October 6, 2020 | Outside OnlineThe trail finishes with a bang, as hikers must scramble hand over foot to climb several massive boulders on their way to the mesa top, where the modern world and parking lot await.
If you have trails or open space nearby, scaling small boulders works, too.
A 15-Week Exercise Plan for Kids and Families | Krista Langlois | September 12, 2020 | Outside Online
[Tatum laughs] Like I found the three other artsy goth kids at boulder and hung out with them.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill on ‘22 Jump Street,’ Penis Kissing, and Julie Andrews’s Boobs | Kevin Fallon | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI did one semester at boulder, which was more a stereotypical, American collegiate experience.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill on ‘22 Jump Street,’ Penis Kissing, and Julie Andrews’s Boobs | Kevin Fallon | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut even at boulder I found the artsy kids and hung out with them.
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill on ‘22 Jump Street,’ Penis Kissing, and Julie Andrews’s Boobs | Kevin Fallon | June 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTboulder was attractive because "it's beautiful and peaceful and people are nice—the opposite of New York—and my mother's there."
Talia Eisenberg is a self-described former New York “party girl” who moved to boulder Colorado to get healthy.
E-Cigarettes, Facing Ban, Still Figuring Out What They Want to Be | Alex Halperin | December 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the opposite side of the stream, set back about thirty paces from the brink, stood a granite boulder.
Uncanny Tales | VariousAt the far end we made a little fire and lay round it in the shadow of a big boulder.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwoodboulder beaches are so quick in answering to every slight change in the conditions which affect them that they seem almost alive.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerThe cutting is not altogether in the fixed material, for the boulder itself is also worn and scored in the work.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerHere and there we will find a boulder perched on a pedestal of ice, which indicates a recent down-wearing of the field.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
British Dictionary definitions for boulder
/ (ˈbəʊldə) /
a smooth rounded mass of rock that has a diameter greater than 25cm and that has been shaped by erosion and transported by ice or water from its original position
geology a rock fragment with a diameter greater than 256 mm and thus bigger than a cobble
Origin of boulder
1Derived forms of boulder
- bouldery, adjective
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