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delta as in:  river delta

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  • We explored the Mississippi River delta.
  • Instead, it destroys the fertile Nile Delta, produces parasitic infestation, and wrecks the Egyptian economy.   (source)
    delta = named for the geological feature where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
  • And so, in the spring of 1931, Papa set out looking for work, going as far north as Memphis and as far south as the Delta country.   (source)
    delta = named for the geological feature where a river divides before entering the ocean
  • Our landing site is at the delta of a long-gone river.   (source)
    delta = where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
  • They'd flown over the southern jungles, above the weed-wild shouting leaves and rice paddies of the deltas.   (source)
    deltas = geological areas where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
  • Now, for example, I would be reassuring the Pharaoh that the flood was a gift from the gods, that once it receded, the rich black earth of the delta would bring forth abundant grain.   (source)
    delta = geographic area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
  • ...his vast plantation in the Mekong delta.   (source)
    delta = where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
  • EXCEPT PERHAPS in the sandy deltas that usher them into the Adriatic, the Isonzo and its spurs are seldom warm, especially in the north, where the water still carries a feeling for its origins in mountain snows, but September holds the heat of summer as surely as March preserves the ice on lakes.   (source)
    deltas = geological areas where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
  • The sand fingers ran out into the basin—a dry delta outlined against darker rock.   (source)
    delta = geological area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
  • It's gonna be real hard 'cause ever since she was a wee bitty girl down in the Delta she wanted to be a teacher.   (source)
    delta = named for the geological feature where a river divides before entering the ocean
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  • It was just 'cause he died her last year of schooling that she come on up here to teach 'stead of going back to the Delta.   (source)
  • The fact that she had not grown up in Spokane County but in the Delta made her even more suspect, and the more traditional thinkers like Miss Crocker were wary of her.   (source)
  • The Captain looked so somber, I could almost imagine I was an Egyptian slave taking Pharaoh on a tour of the flooded Nile Delta.   (source)
    delta = named for a geographic feature where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
  • In fifth-grade history we had spent a lot of time worrying about the flooded river deltas of the ancient world.   (source)
    deltas = geological areas where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
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delta as in:  delta wing aircraft

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  • The brain oscillations are named alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and theta.
    delta = 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • Truly we are a nation of aspiring engineers: shortly after, there was a boy named Omprakash who was calling himself Omega, and another who was passing himself off as Upsilon, and for a while there was a Gamma, a Lambda and a Delta.   (source)
  • It's called a delta.   (source)
    delta = 4th letter of the Greek alphabet (shaped like an equilateral triangle)
  • He was simply 'Delta' to me.   (source)
    delta = 4th letter of the Greek alphabet (used as a designation)
  • Alpha, Bravo, Cain, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot.   (source)
    delta = 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
  • " 'Alpha, Bravo, Charlie … Delta,' " said Bergeron pensively in English.   (source)
  • The jet loomed ... a white bullet-like machine with short delta wings sweeping back from the fuselage, giving it the appearance of an angry flying insect.   (source)
    delta = shaped like an equilateral triangle (or like the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet)
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  • She slept through Bountiful and Salt Lake City and Spanish Fork and did not open her eyes until the train arrived at Delta the next morning.†   (source)
  • As Sergeant Prothero scampered behind the Delta 88 and began to lift his head, a black-gloved hand reached out the window holding a handgun and let off three shots, striking Prothero at point-blank range.†   (source)
  • We'd get a delta-v of thirty-one meters per second.†   (source)
  • "I identified 357 bodies in that Delta crash we had in Dallas the other day," says Stone.†   (source)
  • Two of them had the same picture of Herman E. Calloway and the two guys but the first was called "Herman E. Calloway and the Terminally Unhappy Blues Band," they were called "Masters of the Delta Blues," and the other one was called "Herman E. Calloway and the Gifted Gents of Gospel—Featuring Miss Grace 'Blessed' Thomas's Vocals," they were the "Servants of the Master's Salvation."†   (source)
  • Delta Airlines told me a one-way ticket to Idlewild Airport would cost seventy-three dollars.†   (source)
  • They called it their 'shining delta.'†   (source)
  • Far away on the opposite spiral arm of the Galaxy, five hundred thousand light-years from the star Sol, Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Imperial Galactic Government, sped across the seas of Damogran; his ion drive delta boat winking and flashing in the Damogran sun.†   (source)
  • Delta: I am proceeding with Difficulty.†   (source)
  • Think, for a moment, about what the life of a rice farmer in the Pearl River Delta must have been like.†   (source)
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  • He also gave me an autographed Delta Airline postcard.†   (source)
  • Streams cut the marshes into a patchwork of islands, just like the Nile Delta, with picture-perfect villages for the blessed dead.†   (source)
  • The other Chicano in the band was a San Gabriel guitarist named Jose Palmas who had these magical fingers and could play anything from Wes Montgomery to Jeff Beck to Delta Blues to raunchy norterias.†   (source)
  • "He is not of the cruciform," said Delta-two.†   (source)
  • BOY WILLIE: 'Cause the Yazoo Delta railroad got yellow boxcars.†   (source)
  • The busy tempo of ops, often done separately, added to the difficulty of getting together with Delta.†   (source)
  • I can still picture the young soldier who wrote that letter while propped up in bed, smiling through his eyepatch and bandages, showing the nurses a photo of his pretty bride with Delta cotton poking out of her hair.†   (source)
  • I went back to the Delta Airlines desk and changed my flight to one three hours later.†   (source)
  • The National Organization of Delta Sigma Theta, a professional women's sorority, had decided to give us a Christmas party at the Dunbar Community Center.†   (source)
  • As the guys from Delta Platoon lined up to pound their tridents into Mikey's coffin, I backed off, head bowed.†   (source)
  • During his travels in Egypt he must have observed how the crops began to grow as soon as the floods of the Nile receded from the land areas in the Nile Delta.†   (source)
  • He and Leigh Anne were building a second home in Oxford, just off campus, on the assumption that Collins would follow her mother's footsteps and become an Ole Miss cheerleader and leading member of the ancient Kappa Delta sorority.†   (source)
  • Memphis reported when her Delta took off for home at twenty knots after being on station for five days, and then Gallery queried Queenfish.†   (source)
  • He has soaked up the languid pace of the Mekong Delta and is content to sit there and watch his TV sets and fire off a sentence every few minutes.†   (source)
  • Next stop for me was the Eighteenth Delta Force medical program, conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza had the impression that it was a delta filled with islands of sand.†   (source)
  • Again, the speaker crackled, then: "This is Delta Ajax niner.†   (source)
  • Delta means change—the difference between one value and another over time.†   (source)
  • He's in a delta somewhere but we don't know any more than that because he isn't allowed to tell us and he doesn't write home much anyway.†   (source)
  • She turned the arm over and studied the translucent skin of Grace's wrist and the delta of veins that coursed beneath it.†   (source)
  • Johnson wanted to get the kids from the village up to the base, but a captain said we couldn't do that, so Johnson and a guy from Delta Company worked on a way to get a generator down to the village so we could show the movie to them.†   (source)
  • Stockton is an interesting little city-half artsy, half-cow town, and home to the Asparagus Festival and other events that take advantage of its watery location on the delta fed by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.†   (source)
  • Deltas and Gammas a. Less intelligent and do menial tasks 3.†   (source)
  • Between 60 and 70 words a minute, one of the bonuses of that exclusive concentrated school at Delta.†   (source)
  • Hopefully, the troll would be totally hypnotized by his new Delta Force: Black Hawk Down video game (um ....ew).†   (source)
  • Dad's been making me out every night to drive around and I know they're going to give me my grandmother's Delta 88.†   (source)
  • A delta-wing plane nudged the sun and vanished in the dizzy ozone, climbing dreamily.†   (source)
  • She speaks in the up-country twang of the poor South, not the refined drawl of the Delta, an affectation borrowed by the rich people of our own region.†   (source)
  • I don't want to hurt anyone else, ever, except maybe Delta, who spread the awful rumor about my accident at the movie ...her I'd like to give AIDS to.†   (source)
  • As soon as Max tried those words, the Ormenheid's great oars eased into motion and rowed them swiftly toward the river's delta.†   (source)
  • He sat in a folding chair, still handcuffed, and listened as the stranger said, "My name is Arthur Welch and I'm a lawyer from Clarksdale, over in the Delta."†   (source)
  • A fourteen-year-old African American boy named Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta town of Money.†   (source)
  • And Ethir Anduin he saw, the mighty delta of the River, and myriads of sea-birds whirling like a white dust in the sun, and beneath them a green and silver sea, rippling in endless lines.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Gaz, Iggy, and I instinctively implemented a tried-and-true plan of action, Plan Delta, which we've used any number of times and have down to an art.†   (source)
  • The concrete gave way to a carpet of trees and rice paddies known as the Mae Nam Chao Phraya delta-the rice bowl of Asia—a hot, steamy, fertile sea of vegetation infested with insects and creatures rarely seen.†   (source)
  • On the Ariana 727 to Dubai, the British Air 777 to London, and the Delta 767 to D.C., Mortenson felt like a heat-seeking missile speeding toward his own government, fueled by outrage.†   (source)
  • They consider their Delta Talk, as they call it, "pretty and gentler" than what they term Southern, but younger people's speech is changing.†   (source)
  • Cain is for Charlie, and Delta is for Cain.†   (source)
  • The Golden Company was encamped three miles south of town, well north of where he had expected them, and Triarch Malaquo had come north with five thousand foot and a thousand horse to cut —them off from the delta road.†   (source)
  • In delta sector, the computers hummed and clicked softly, as Captain Arthur Morris punched through a new program on the console.†   (source)
  • Given Delta's needs, I eventually left Afghanistan with two other SEALs and headed to Iraq to help out.†   (source)
  • When the clouds were so high and near that the older people began to stir because, unlike their grandchildren, they would not be able to dash quickly through the dunes to the hotel, Alessandro folded the Corriere delta Sera and put it under his thigh to protect it from the large drops of rain that had begun to arrive in the vanguard of the storm.†   (source)
  • First, they saw the lone shapes, which were factories, rolling across their windowpanes-then the shapes fused into the blur of streets-then a delta of rails spread out before them, like the mouth of a funnel sucking them into the Taggart station, with nothing to protect them but the small green beads of lights scattered over the ground-from the height of the cab, they saw boxcars on sidings streak past as flat ribbons of roof tops —the black hole of the train-shed flew at their faces-the†   (source)
  • Once that is achieved, the resistance will only conduct operations authorized by Delta Centrum in Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • Down the hill ran a gravel road along which the various company areas sprawled, six in all—Headquarters, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, and Echo.†   (source)
  • When I was a little girl, we went through hurricanes off the Gulf of Mexico and Delta floods and encephalitis epidemics and poor times when we didn't know where tomorrow's food was comin' from, but we rode it out and still sung loud in the choir every Sunday.†   (source)
  • Since it was able to maintain delta-V such as to decelerate into the system, that ability is self-evident.†   (source)
  • From an early age, while still a boy in the Nile Delta of Egypt, he believed he was destined for greatness.†   (source)
  • He wore a tan business suit with a tan vest tucked around his nascent paunch, upon which glittered the golden key of Omicron Delta Kappa, the college leadership fraternity.†   (source)
  • They came from every nook and corner of the state, from the Delta, the piney woods, the Gulf Coast, the black prairie, the red clay hills, and Jackson—as the capital city and the only sizeable town, a region to itself.†   (source)
  • She'd recoiled at the thought of living in Equatorial Africa or a delta village in India, and pestered him to set up practice in New York or Los Angeles, where the big money was.†   (source)
  • He had gotten a good break in music, cut a few records in Memphis, and become a minor rock sensation in the Delta region.†   (source)
  • "Delta Gamma one thirteen," supplied Mac.†   (source)
  • Oxygen, fresh, pure, green, cold oxygen turning the valley into a river delta.†   (source)
  • Sheng fired as Delta instinctively pivoted to his right, spinning in mid-air as he pulled his knife from his belt, then planted his foot on the ground, reversing direction and abruptly lunged towards Sheng.†   (source)
  • Rachel drew the symbol Delta in water on our table.†   (source)
  • The blue Delta symbol glowed on the top when she booted it up.†   (source)
  • In his mind he could see the Delta jet cutting through the unraveling fog and into the blue.†   (source)
  • The panel speaker emitted static crackles, then a voice: "Who calls Delta Ajax niner?†   (source)
  • The Delta: the Greek letter D, the mathematical symbol for change.†   (source)
  • And the triangle is also the Greek letter delta, which is the mathematical symbol for—†   (source)
  • Linebacker flight, this is Sentry-Delta.†   (source)
  • Later, back at the compound, Delta asked us, "We're not sure if it's Atto or not.†   (source)
  • In April 1999, Delta Air Lines and Air France suspended their flying partnership with Korean Air.†   (source)
  • The Delta IX that's on the pad right now for the EagleEye 3 Saturn probe.†   (source)
  • In Delta, she said, you could buy oranges.†   (source)
  • A Greek symbol appeared: A, the Ancient Greek Delta.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, everyone who was anyone in Charlie was now assigned to Delta.†   (source)
  • The Enforcers are to the MetaCops what the Delta Force is to the Peace Corps.†   (source)
  • Inscribed in the steel, at eye level, was a large blue Greek delta.†   (source)
  • It is supposed to have been a no longer existent satellite of Delta Pavonis.†   (source)
  • A FEW DAYS LATER, I WAS WESTWARD-BOUND, BACK to Delta Platoon.†   (source)
  • In the Pearl River Delta, the rice farmer planted two and sometimes three crops a year.†   (source)
  • Linebacker flight, this is Sentry-Delta.†   (source)
  • Delta's C Squadron would fast-rope from two more to assault the building.†   (source)
  • I was assigned to Delta, and put in as LPO of the platoon.†   (source)
  • Linebacker flight, this is Sentry-Delta.†   (source)
  • The Delta operator went to the other Delta guys and said, "Hey, Wasdin is here!"†   (source)
  • He keyed back to the working frequency, barked: "All right, you in Delta Ajax niner!†   (source)
  • We lived with Delta Force, the Combat Control Team (CCT), and pararescuemen (PJs).†   (source)
  • "Linebacker Lead to Sentry-Delta," he said in the clear.†   (source)
  • We are coming down to take off Delta Ajax niner's crew.†   (source)
  • Why should Delta take down a ship when SEAL Team Six does it better?†   (source)
  • (Narvi narviium) grown only on Salusa Secundus and III Delta Kaising†   (source)
  • There's a Delta there, too, but she just surfaced and killed her engines.†   (source)
  • Their Deltas and Typhoons are in the Barents Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, as usual.†   (source)
  • CALADAN: third planet of Delta Pavonis; birthworld of Paul-Muad'Dib.†   (source)
  • Based on a tip that Aidid's people hung out there, at 0300, Delta Force fast-roped onto a house.†   (source)
  • Why should SEAL Team Six take down an aircraft on a runway when Delta does it better?†   (source)
  • The first of the Alfas was his, the first of the Deltas and Typhoons.†   (source)
  • Delta had intelligence that Aidid was in the old Russian compound.†   (source)
  • We have good tracks on two Yankees, three Deltas, and a Typhoon.†   (source)
  • Two carried Delta assaulters and their ground command.†   (source)
  • The next day, a Delta guy from across the hall who had an injured shoulder came and visited me.†   (source)
  • Another militiaman carrying an AK-47 came out a fire escape and at the Delta operators assaulting.†   (source)
  • Delta told me they'd like to have me move to them.†   (source)
  • They swarmed me, took me to Delta's Charlie Squadron ready room, and gave me beers in both hands.†   (source)
  • They wheeled me past a wall where the names of the fallen Delta Force guys were written.†   (source)
  • One of them looked at the other Delta snipers.†   (source)
  • An asset seemed confident he could get close to Aidid, so we put Delta on alert.†   (source)
  • In a sandstorm kicked up by the lidos, Delta operators roped down to the target building.†   (source)
  • This partly explains why I didn't feel up to attending the party with Delta after the memorial.†   (source)
  • SEALs said they could do things Delta couldn't.†   (source)
  • Delta whisked him away to a prison on an island off the coast of Somalia.†   (source)
  • After the memorial, when Scotty, Tim, and I were hanging out, a Delta guy asked who I was.†   (source)
  • He wheeled me over to see another patient, Brad, one of the Delta snipers.†   (source)
  • In some ways SEALs were quite similar to Delta.†   (source)
  • We told a Delta captain, "We'd like to do night sniper flights with the QRF: eyes over Mogadishu."†   (source)
  • Half a dozen Delta snipers met us at the front door, high-fiving me.†   (source)
  • The QRF had difficulties working with Delta.†   (source)
  • Delta will rope in and assault the building.†   (source)
  • I told a Delta sniper, "We're going to have to move on them."†   (source)
  • Both Delta and SEAL Team Six had begun augmenting their forces with CCTs and PJs.†   (source)
  • All of JSOC's snipers, both SEAL and Delta operators, saw the light.†   (source)
  • Delta had difficulties working with the CIA.†   (source)
  • So Delta went after him and took seventeen prisoners— but no Aidid.†   (source)
  • The Delta operator and I moved forward again.†   (source)
  • Other Delta guys formed a perimeter around the building.†   (source)
  • Some Delta boys were on board the chopper ready to take off on a training flight.†   (source)
  • Later, he worked in the U.S. Army Intelligence Support Activity and in Delta.†   (source)
  • Little Birds flew overhead with Delta snipers to protect the assault force.†   (source)
  • Condor wanted a SEAL to go along with him and some Delta operators.†   (source)
  • Hovering overhead in the Little Birds, Delta snipers saw me make the shot.†   (source)
  • Integrating them into SEAL Team Six and Delta was one of the best moves JSOC ever made.†   (source)
  • —Colonel Charlie A. Beckwith, U.S. ARMY DELTA FORCE FOUNDER†   (source)
  • It's the navy's equivalent to the army's Delta Force.†   (source)
  • Delta said it could do things SEALs couldn't.†   (source)
  • Delta loaded two dozen flexicuffed prisoners into two of the remaining 5-ton trucks.†   (source)
  • Inside, Delta took Atto to the top of the building, where a helo landed and picked them up.†   (source)
  • It also improved our relations with Delta.†   (source)
  • Delta launched on the radio station to capture Aidid but hit another dry hole.†   (source)
  • The Delta operators became smaller and smaller as we gained altitude.†   (source)
  • The killer's hands trembled as he stared at Delta in the dim, pulsating light of the distant flames.†   (source)
  • So he screened and got picked up for Delta and had worked his way up the ranks.†   (source)
  • It's my word against Delta's and by now everyone's probably forgotten anyhow.†   (source)
  • Once in the ground, in the military cemetery at Fort Delta.†   (source)
  • Then Lieutenant Berger from Delta Company came over.†   (source)
  • He was no longer the skinny kid from the Delta; he had the body of a cage fighter.†   (source)
  • She lives out from Box Hill in a community called Little Delta; not too many white folks around.†   (source)
  • They passed the Phra Khanong district midafternoon and headed out into the delta.†   (source)
  • The trunk lines to the library and the central storage unit were also regulated by delta sector.†   (source)
  • Medusa's Delta One would find out if he had to carve that skull apart.†   (source)
  • Cain is for Charlie and Delta is for Cain!†   (source)
  • "Not actually adjusting the delta that much," Nathan said over the hypercom.†   (source)
  • Dart had brought with him the latest signals from London and Delta Centrum.†   (source)
  • Everything was in motion exactly the way Delta would expect it to be in motion.†   (source)
  • An hour west of Oxford, the hills flattened into the Delta.†   (source)
  • "The delta-V is going to be a bit like a balloon that you open up the spout," Nathan said.†   (source)
  • Atta, like Qassam, was a son of the Nile Delta.†   (source)
  • A former Ranger before joining Delta Force, Jon had a thick barrel chest and thick arms.†   (source)
  • The complex rose out of the delta like a wraith in the night.†   (source)
  • If you don't—' Threats are unnecessary, Delta,' interrupted the former Medusan.†   (source)
  • Delta Centrum was baying for your blood.†   (source)
  • The bus, the kids, the hijackers, and my father using a cover name all these years at Delta.†   (source)
  • "Try thirty minutes, Mr. Delta," replied Rachel.†   (source)
  • The other had just recently been elected from a county in the Delta that was 70 percent black.†   (source)
  • He became a guerrilla fighter known as Delta.'†   (source)
  • Delta had made a lucrative agreement with the Americans.†   (source)
  • Castle is a three-hour drive from Delta.†   (source)
  • He came to the United States, enlisted, and eventually worked his way into the ranks of Delta.†   (source)
  • Delta would have; Jason Bourne would have.†   (source)
  • How was he to know it would take off like a Delta rocket?†   (source)
  • But what you're suggesting, Delta is quite different.†   (source)
  • Delta's headquarters was in former Baath Party buildings.†   (source)
  • There wasn't even a David, only a guerrilla they called Delta One.†   (source)
  • She lives out from Box Hill in an area called Little Delta.†   (source)
  • By signing the name Delta, he's telling me he knows.†   (source)
  • When we pop it, it's going to apply delta-V†   (source)
  • He never called from his office in Delta.†   (source)
  • Delta was no part of Treadstone; he had disappeared with Medusa.†   (source)
  • I haven't heard that kind of language since the Mekong Delta.†   (source)
  • Inner Delta had already outlined procedures for such an operation.†   (source)
  • If their cruiser has six gravities of delta-V, that would make their maximum gray output ...†   (source)
  • Delta knew that it was Echo's death that had made the assassin's capture possible.†   (source)
  • As much fun as I had had in Iraq with Delta, it was still good to be back with the boys.†   (source)
  • About seven gravities of delta-V. We need to hold this for about twenty minutes, though.†   (source)
  • It was a copy of a pencil drawing of a Delta operator and a Little Bird.†   (source)
  • The figure did not have to lower his handkerchief, Delta knew the face.†   (source)
  • They were the movements of Jason Bourne and, before him, Medusa's Delta, not David Webb.†   (source)
  • Fort Delta wasn't closed because of Inner Delta.†   (source)
  • You've done a remarkable job down here, Delta.†   (source)
  • He was Delta-of Saigon's Medusa ...he could do it!†   (source)
  • And, in a sense, gave you and your mother's lives to it by bringing you to Delta.†   (source)
  • There was no telling how much delta-V they were going to get from the gases in the interior.†   (source)
  • Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta ...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain.†   (source)
  • Delta's base was in the Green Zone, which sat next to the Tigris River in the center of the city.†   (source)
  • Outside of this room, Delta's the only one who knows about Seventy-first Street.†   (source)
  • "It's a risk I'll accept," said Delta coldly.†   (source)
  • The mission, one of the first operations conducted by Delta Force, was aborted.†   (source)
  • Delta picked up his knapsack and removed a gun he had taken in Beijing, showing it to the commando.†   (source)
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