Crossword-Solution: BASALT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Basalt | n. | A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated. |
| Basalt | n. | An imitation, in pottery, of natural basalt; a kind of black porcelain. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BASALT | anagram | ABLAST, BALATS, TABLAS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BASALT (5)
About four o’clock, the soil, generally composed of a thick mud mixed with petrified wood, changed by degrees, and it became more stony, and seemed strewn with conglomerate and pieces of basalt, with a sprinkling of lava.
They fought in the breakers, they fought in the sand, and they fought on the smooth-worn basalt rocks of the nurseries, for they were just as stupid and unaccommodating as men.
The Multnomah Falls are particularly interesting, and occupy fern-lined gorges of marvelous beauty in the basalt.
Winter shows us Matter in its dead form, like the Primary rocks, like granite and basalt--clear but cold and frozen crystal.
Then they rowed away, the songs say, along the Mysian shore, and past the mouth of Rhindacus, till they found a pleasant bay, sheltered by the long ridges of Arganthus, and by high walls of basalt rock.
Quotes with BASALT (2)
The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,” he said in that dry factual tone, and everyone stared at him amazed. “Without the human presence it is just a collection of atoms, no different than any other random speck of matter in the universe. It’s we who understand it, and we who give it meaning. All our centuries of looking up at the night sky and watching it wander through the stars. All those nights of watching it through the telescopes, looking at a tiny disk trying to …
Pareidolia describes the human tendency to find meaning where there is none. Take the man in the moon, for example; we raise our eyes, and there, in lifeless markings of bedrock and basalt, we find a human face. We’re hardwired to look for patterns in the Rorschach of the natural world: a woman’s reclining form in the curve of a mountain range, the Virgin Mary in a water stain on a concrete wall. We want the world to be both known and mysterious. We’re looking for evidence of…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 71 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).