cliff
IPA: kɫˈɪf
noun
- A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
- (figurative) A point beyond which something abruptly fails or decreases in value, performance, etc.
- A diminutive of the male given name Clifford or Clifton.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
- A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.
- A hamlet in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2198).
- A neighbourhood, The Cliff, in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8201).
- A small settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland, appearing on OS maps as Cliobh (OS grid ref NB0835).
- (music) Obsolete form of clef. [A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]]
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Examples of "cliff" in Sentences
- A lot of the campsite lies on the edge of the cliff.
- Many of the houses are built to the edge of the cliff.
- He would gambol too close to the edge of the fiscal cliff.
- One of the artificial pools is very near the edge of the cliff.
- Some of photographs were taken against the steep, jagged cliffs.
- It is located next to the edge of the cliff at the rear of the park.
- Quickening then calls for Walker, who takes her to the edge of the cliff.
- The southwest edge of the Roan Cliffs overlook the town from the northeast.
- After some searching, they discover the plane teetering on the edge of a cliff.
- The coyote continues across the desert floor and off the edge of another cliff.