tuff

Speech parts

1. tuff - Noun

2. tuff - Adjective

3. Tuff - Proper noun

Meaning

Same as Tufa.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tufa granite crag stone hard severe solid healthy harsh tight terrible desperate stiff vigorous sandstone
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Antonyms

slack good easy weak soft mild
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Hypernyms

volcanic rock

Phrases with the word

colmena tuff tuff ring volcanic tuff Bandelier Tuff tuff breccia

Examples

Basaltic tuff Most of the moais in Easter Island are carved out of tholeiite basalt tuff Basaltic tuffs are also of widespread occurrence both in districts where volcanoes are now active and in lands where eruptions have long since ended. Source: Internet

Around the year 200, the wooden walls of the fortification were replaced by sturdier tuff stone walls, citation remnants of which are still to be found below the buildings around Dom Square. Source: Internet

Folding and metamorphism Remains of the ancient Servian Walls in Rome, made of tuff blocks In course of time, other changes than weathering may overtake tuff deposits. Source: Internet

These accessory or adventitious materials, however, as distinguished from the true ashes, tend to occur in angular fragments; and when they form a large part of the mass the rock is more properly a "volcanic breccia " than a tuff. Source: Internet

Basaltic tuff or pyroclastic rocks are rare but not unknown. Source: Internet

For example, the whole port of the island of Ventotene (still in use), was carved out from tuff. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

tufan Tufano Tufekci tuff breccia tuff ring tuffaceous