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Translate reef from English to Spanish

Summary

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reef:
- acantilado; risco; roca saliente; arrizar
Wiktionary:
- reef → arrecife, filón
- reef → arrizar, arrecife, escollo

English

Detailed Translations for reef from English to Spanish

reef:

reef [the ~] noun

the reef (cliff; shallows; rock)
el acantilado; el risco; la roca saliente
- acantilado [el ~] noun
- risco [el ~] noun
- roca saliente [la ~] noun
the reef
el arrizar
- arrizar [el ~] noun

Translation Matrix for reef:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
acantilado	cliff; reef; rock; shallows	bluff; cliff; precipice; rock; rock-face
arrizar	reef
risco	cliff; reef; rock; shallows	bluff; precipice; rock; rock-face
roca saliente	cliff; reef; rock; shallows
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	sunken rock
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
acantilado		full of rocks; iron bound-like; rocky

Related Words for "reef":

reefs

Synonyms for "reef":

ridge
Witwatersrand; Rand; Reef; region; part
lower; take down; let down; get down; bring down
roll up; furl
shrink; reduce

Related Definitions for "reef":

one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind¹
a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water¹
reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef¹
roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area¹
lower and bring partially inboard¹
- reef the sailboat's mast¹

Wiktionary Translations for reef:

reef

noun

rocks at or near surface of the water
- reef → arrecife
large vein of auriferous quartz
- reef → filón

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• reef	→ arrizar	↔ reven — het effectieve oppervlak verkleinen door samenvouwing of oprolling
• reef	→ arrecife	↔ Riff — meist lang gestreckte, oft auch reihenartige, felsenartige oder sandbankartige Aufragung des Meeresgrundes, welches sich mit seiner höchsten Stelle je nach mittlerem Wasserstand kurz unterhalb, teilweise unter- und oberhalb oder kurz oberhalb desselben befindet
• reef	→ escollo; arrecife	↔ récif — rocher ou chaîne de rochers à fleur d’eau, dans la mer.
• reef	→ escollo; arrecife	↔ écueil — marine\|fr rocher, banc de sable, de coquillages, de corail, que l’on rencontre dans la mer à la surface ou près de la surface des eaux, et contre lequel les navires courent le risque de se briser ou de s’échouer.

External Machine Translations:

Related Translations for reef

coral reef

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