(Nautical) Of an anchor; just clear of the bottom; SYN. atrip.
(Used of an anchor) Hanging clear of the bottom.
(Homonym: away).
1. Not bound or fastened or gathered together
2. Not carefully arranged in a package
3. Not fixed firmly or tightly
4. Not restrained or confined or attached
5. Not tense or taut; SYN. slack.
6. Not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
7. Not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
8. (Of a ball in sport) Not in the possession or control of any player
9. (Of textures) Full of small openings or gaps; SYN. open.
10. Freely producing mucus
gelblicher, mehlfeiner Lehm, besteht u. a. aus Quarz (6080%), Kalk (1015%); vom Wind abgesetzter Staub, bes. im Vorland ehem. vereister Gebiete Europas u. N-Amerikas, verbreitet in China; sehr fruchtbar.
ETYM German löss.
A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
Deposit of rich loam soil occurring in belt in N hemisphere.
Yellow loam, derived from glacial meltwater deposits and accumulated by wind in periglacial regions during the ice ages. Loess usually attains considerable depths, and the soil derived from it is very fertile. There are large deposits in central Europe (Hungary), China, and North America. It was first described in 1821 in the Rhine area, and takes its name from a village in Alsace.
4) Sammelposten einer Ware, die als Ganzes versteigert oder verkauft werden soll.
ETYM as. hlot; akin to hleótan to cast lots, os. hlôt lot, Dutch lot, German loos, Old High Germ. lôz, Icel. hlutr, Swed. lott, Dan. lod, Goth. hlauts. Related to Allot, Lotto, Lottery.
A parcel of land having fixed boundaries.
Abkürzung für Line of Sight
Abkürzung für Loss of Signal
Verwehtes Sediment aus Trocken- oder Kältesteppen, gelbbraun und sehr feinkörnig, kalkhaltig. Typ. L.-Gebiete sind S-Sibirien, Ukraine, Magdeburger Börde, Rheinhessen u.a., deren steinfreie, an der Oberfläche lehmige Böden äußerst fruchtbar sind.