Friday, May 7, 2010

ARCH1101 Investigating the Essence of a Valley

Valley
  1. an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, esp. one following the course of a stream.
  2. an extensive, more or less flat, and relatively low region drained by a great river system.any depression or hollow resembling a valley.
  3. a low point or interval in any process, representation, or situation.
  4. any place, period, or situation that is filled with fear, gloom, foreboding, or the like: the valley of despair.
  5. Architecture. a depression or angle formed by the meeting of two inclined sides of a roof.
  6. the lower phase of a horizontal wave motion.
  7. An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
  8. An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.
  9. A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.

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