alpine
IPA: ˈæɫpaɪn
noun
- (botany) Any of several plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in rock gardens.
- An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama, United States.
- An unincorporated community and former census-designated place in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. It has no permanent residents but around 250 commuter residents, who work on a two-week-on, two-week-off schedule.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, United States.
- A census-designated place in San Diego County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Columbia Township, Fayette County, Indiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Union County, Mississippi, United States.
- A rural unincorporated community and census-designated place in Benton County, Oregon, United States.
- A borough of New Jersey, United States.
- A village in New South Wales, Australia.
- An unincorporated community in Overton County, Tennessee, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Brewster County, Texas, United States.
- A city in Utah County, Utah, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States.
- A ghost town in Skagit County, Washington, United States.
- A town in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timberline.
- (skiing) Of or relating to slalom and downhill skiing.
- Relating to the Alps, a mountain range in Western and Central Europe.
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Examples of "alpine" in Sentences
- Say, the Austrians 'medal count starts weakly in alpine skiing like it did this time.
- The Arctic zone retains few of the sub-arctic forms and its vegetation generally corresponds to what we call alpine shrubs, grasses, etc.
- I have definitely been to "dicey" in alpine river environments trying to get to that one hole you were pretty sure no one had fished (for good reason).
- The vegetation of the higher regions of mountains is commonly called alpine, and the plants show a large number of common features, differentiating them from the flora of lower stations.
- Top mountaineers climb the Himalayan giants in "alpine-style", carrying everything they have on their backs in one push, unsupported by huge base camps, and without fixing ropes and ferrying multiple loads to ever-higher points.
- The list of performers that are, or will become household names is incredible: in alpine skiing -- 1993 World Ski Champion Kate Pace, 1992 Olympic Champion Kerrin Lee-Gartner and the two latest World Cup medalists -- Edi Podivinsky and Cary Mullen.
- Sophos called Apple's default password 'effectively useless' because it's the same word -- 'alpine' -- on all iPhones. blog about the Ikee worm revealed some amusing comments in the code and a trail that seems to lead to a 21-year-old from Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, who recently tweeted that he's "kinda ... worried about legal implications".
- In the four to five hours from the urban maze of San Cristóbal de Las Casas to the run-down precincts of the blight of Palenque Village one drives through extraordinary environmental changes from high mountain alpine forests to coffee and banana plantations to low lying and indescribably beautiful tropical jungles and witnesses ancient ruins at Toniná and Palenque and then can circle back through what just a few years ago was uninviting and difficult to access forest homes of the Lacandon or their ancestors and visit such magnificent places as Yaxchilan and Bonampak and see crystal clear cascades and azure pools and colorful sparkling lakes and then continue on through mountainous jungles which must be seen to be believed to the point that the scenery is overwhelming and then, in time, you are back in beautiful San Cristóbal and you have not even begun to experience this magnificnt Chiapas but it´s a damn good beginning.
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