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delta as in:  river delta

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The delta has rich soil, but it is subject to flooding.
delta = geological area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
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    We explored the Mississippi River delta.
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    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
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    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)
    Delta = named for the geological feature where a river divides before entering the ocean
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    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
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    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
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    They walked happily by unhappy alcoholics, deltaed in foaming eddies of innocence, and smiling murderously down at some fond mother's treasure.†  (source)
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    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
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    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
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    ...his vast plantation in the Mekong delta.  (source)
    Delta = where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
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    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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    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
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    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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    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
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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
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    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)
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    " 'Alpha, Bravo, Charlie … Delta,' " said Bergeron pensively in English.  (source)
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    It's called a delta.  (source)
    delta = 4th letter of the Greek alphabet (shaped like an equilateral triangle)
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    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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    Alpha, Bravo, Cain, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot.  (source)
    Delta = 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
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    He was simply 'Delta' to me.  (source)
    Delta = 4th letter of the Greek alphabet (used as a designation)
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    I'm working on a wonderful Delta-Minus ovary at this moment.  (source)
    Delta = a caste in this novel
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    In Delta, she said, you could buy oranges.†  (source)
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    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)
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    We'd get a delta-v of thirty-one meters per second.†  (source)
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    Deltas and Gammas a. Less intelligent and do menial tasks 3.†  (source)
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    "I identified 357 bodies in that Delta crash we had in Dallas the other day," says Stone.†  (source)
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    The first of the Alfas was his, the first of the Deltas and Typhoons.†  (source)
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    Delta Airlines told me a one-way ticket to Idlewild Airport would cost seventy-three dollars.†  (source)
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    Their Deltas and Typhoons are in the Barents Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, as usual.†  (source)
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    BOY WILLIE: 'Cause the Yazoo Delta railroad got yellow boxcars.†  (source)
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    We have good tracks on two Yankees, three Deltas, and a Typhoon.†  (source)
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    And the triangle is also the Greek letter delta, which is the mathematical symbol for—†  (source)
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    Why go to the trouble of making it psychologically impossible for Deltas to like flowers?  (source)
    Deltas = members of a caste in this novel
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