boulder
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1. boulder - Noun
2. boulder - Verb
3. Boulder - Proper noun
Meaning
Same as Bowlder.
A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.
A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one...
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
It's the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.
‘Not everything that walks is a man,'” said the boulder conversationally, "‘and not everything that lies quiet is a stone,' as the wolf remarked when the serpent bit him.