valley

5 definitions found

valley - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Valley \Val"ley\, n.; pl. Valleys. [OE. vale, valeie, OF.
     val['e]e, valede, F. vall['e]e, LL. vallata, L. vallis,
     valles. See Vale.]
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     1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains;
        the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions
        intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a
        stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or
        both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
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              The valley of the shadow of death.    --Ps. xxiii.
                                                    4.
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              Sweet interchange
              Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
                                                    --Milton.
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     Note: Deep and narrow valleys with abrupt sides are usually
           the results of erosion by water, and are called
           gorges, ravines, canyons, gulches, etc.
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     2. (Arch.)
        (a) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which
            have their plates running in different directions, and
            form on the plan a reentrant angle.
        (b) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on
            a flat roof.
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     Valley board (Arch.), a board for the reception of the lead
        gutter in the valley of a roof. The valley board and lead
        gutter are not usual in the United States.
  
     Valley rafter, or Valley piece (Arch.), the rafter which
        supports the valley.
  
     Valley roof (Arch.), a roof having one or more valleys. See
        Valley, 2, above.
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valley - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  valley
      n 1: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually
           contains a river [syn: valley, vale]

valley - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Valley
  (1.) Heb. bik'ah, a "cleft" of the mountains (Deut. 8:7; 11:11;
  Ps. 104:8; Isa. 41:18); also a low plain bounded by mountains,
  as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the sources
  of the Jordan (Josh. 11:17; 12:7), and the valley of Megiddo (2
  Chr. 35:22).
  
    (2.) 'Emek, "deep;" "a long, low plain" (Job 39:10, 21; Ps.
  65:13; Cant. 2:1), such as the plain of Esdraelon; the "valley
  of giants" (Josh. 15:8), usually translated "valley of Rephaim"
  (2 Sam. 5:18); of Elah (1 Sam. 17:2), of Berachah (2 Chr.
  20:26); the king's "dale" (Gen. 14:17); of Jehoshaphat (Joel
  3:2, 12), of Achor (Josh. 7:24; Isa. 65:10), Succoth (Ps. 60:6),
  Ajalon (Josh. 10:12), Jezreel (Hos. 1:5).
  
    (3.) Ge, "a bursting," a "flowing together," a narrow glen or
  ravine, such as the valley of the children of Hinnom (2 Kings
  23:10); of Eshcol (Deut. 1:24); of Sorek (Judg. 16:4), etc.
  
    The "valley of vision" (Isa. 22:1) is usually regarded as
  denoting Jerusalem, which "may be so called," says Barnes (Com.
  on Isa.), "either (1) because there were several valleys within
  the city and adjacent to it, as the vale between Mount Zion and
  Moriah, the vale between Mount Moriah and Mount Ophel, between
  these and Mount Bezetha, and the valley of Jehoshaphat, the
  valley of the brook Kidron, etc., without the walls of the city;
  or (2) more probably it was called the valley in reference to
  its being compassed with hills rising to a considerable
  elevation above the city" (Ps. 125:2; comp. also Jer. 21:13,
  where Jerusalem is called a "valley").
  
    (4.) Heb. nahal, a wady or water-course (Gen. 26:19; Cant.
  6:11).

valley - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Valley, AL (city, FIPS 78204)
    Location: 32.80904 N, 85.17302 W
    Population (1990): 8173 (3482 housing units)
    Area: 16.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 36854
  Valley, NE (city, FIPS 50020)
    Location: 41.31303 N, 96.34603 W
    Population (1990): 1775 (756 housing units)
    Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 68064
  Valley, WA
    Zip code(s): 99181

valley - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "valley":
     abysm, abyss, arroyo, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, box canyon,
     breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink,
     cirque, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, comb, combe, corrie, coulee,
     couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, dale, defile,
     dell, dike, dingle, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure,
     flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, glen, gorge,
     groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hollow, incision,
     intervale, joint, kloof, leak, lunar rill, moat, notch, nullah,
     opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture,
     scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, strath, trench, trough, vale,
     void, wadi