How to pronounce“keystone”in English
nounthe The glacia alone is the size of Great Britain. It's about the size of the state of Florida. Um, and then it also, as I say, acts like a kind of
keystone. It's the kind of cork in the bottle that holds back a network of other glacias. Glacias being kind of slowm moving rivers of ice. So, it sort
of stops them from flowing out. So, we're ths to melt out, the other glacias would flow out as well. And then you're talking about sort of three plus meters
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Definitions of “keystone”
The top stone of an arch.
“The tunnel, which is 1,000 yd. long, had been closed to passenger traffic since November 17, 1949, after some of the keystones had worked loose.”
Something on which other things depend for support.
“Tension between empirical and theoretical knowledge is keystone to sociological and to organizational theories, as early as in Marx's and Weber's frameworks.”
To distort (an image) by projecting it onto a surface at an angle, which for example causes a square to look like a trapezoid.
To double the cost price in order to determine the retail price; to apply a markup of 100%.
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