The term alp, alm, albe or alpe refers to a grazing pastures in the alpine regions below the glaciers, not the peaks.

The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

This place-name hypothesis is considered the most reliable as the root of these ties in Indo-European * alb / * alp indicating a high location, the Mons Albanus ( now Monte Cavo ) in this case, while it was the center of worship and common pasture ( compascuo ).

In the mountain area there is a small ski resort ( Schuttannen alp ) and a rock climbing area called Löwenzähne (" lion's teeth ") with walls up to 150 m ( 500 ft ) and level 10.

Others think the source may be a non-Indo-European root * alb -, meaning " hill, mountain ", also present in alp " mountain pasture ".

Traditional Simmental cow on alp pasture ( Engstligenalp )

Gangs or Kang is the Tibetan word for snow peak analogous to alp or himal ; rinpoche is an honorific meaning " precious one " so the combined term can be translated " precious jewel of snows ".

Until today the colony of St. Martin and the Walserhouse on the alp Ebni can be visited.

The alp of Teutonic or German folklore is one of the better known.

The vegetation is alpine and sub-alpine, partially wooded, the slopes, the plateaus, and terraces usually alp meadows.

Kang Ri is a Tibetan expression for " snow peak " analogous to alp or himal.

Today it is owned by an alp cooperative of about 100 farmers from Frutigen and Adelboden.

Very little material concerning elves or elben survives in Old High German beyond the mere noun form alp, plural alpî, elpî.

The alp was named Mont D ' Iberville by the Quebec government in 1971.

Album comes from alb o alp an ancient pre-Indo-european ( rock, hill ), often erroneously assocciata to " album " a latin word meaning white or clear.

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The ultrasonic range refers to the very high frequencies: 20, 000 Hz and higher.

) In the field of particle physics, " shmoo " refers to a high energy survey instrument, as utilized at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to capture subatomic cosmic ray particles emitted from the Cygnus X-3 constellation.

The current term bipolar disorder is of fairly recent origin and refers to the cycling between high and low episodes ( poles ).

A term dating from the 1940s, " general abstract nonsense ", refers to its high level of abstraction, compared to more classical branches of mathematics.

Gun specifically refers to a type of cannon that fires projectiles at high speeds, and usually at relatively low angles ; they have been used in warships, and as field artillery.

In the Dutch language the word " dokter " refers to a physician, whereas " doctor " refers to high academic rank.

High pressure food preservation refers to high pressure used for food preservation.

It refers to the practice of a company paying a high price to buy back shares of its own stock to prevent an unfriendly takeover by another company or businessman.

The term refers to the shape of a letter box, a slot in a wall or door through which mail is delivered, being rectangular and wider than it is high.

Lammas leaves or Lammas growth refers to a second crop of leaves produced in high summer by some species of trees in temperate countries to replace those lost to insect damage.

According to them, Sonnet 91 ( which compares the Fair Youth's love to such treasures as high birth, wealth, and horses ) implies that the author is in a position to make such comparisons, and the ' high birth ' he refers to is his own.

But most commonly, the term refers to the declaration in the final phase of a high-low split game, in which players indicate whether their hands are to be evaluated as high hands, low hands, or both at showdown.

Similarly, one can sometimes hear the term " nut-nut ", which refers to a hand that makes both the best possible high and low.

In Europe, " Omaha " still typically refers to the high version of the game, usually played pot-limit.

Valley refers to the Santa Clara Valley, located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, while Silicon refers to the high concentration of companies involved in the semiconductor ( silicon is used to create most semiconductors commercially ) and computer industries that were concentrated in the area.

" State-of-the-art technology " refers to the high technology available to humanity in any field.

In British usage, barbecuing refers to a fast cooking process directly over high heat, while grilling refers to cooking under a source of direct, high heat — known in the US and Canada as broiling.

In US English usage, however, grilling refers to a fast process over high heat, while barbecuing refers to a slow process using indirect heat and / or hot smoke ( very similar to some forms of roasting ).

Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.

Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral — transmontane (" the other side of the mountain ") chaparral — refers to the desert shrubland habitat and chaparral plant community growing in the rainshadow of these ranges.

Elevation measurements vary depending on whether the data refers to the ruin or the extremity of the mountain ; Machu Picchu tourist information reports the elevation as 2, 350 m ( 7, 711 ft ).

The shào ( 少 ) in " Shaolin " refers to Mount Shaoshi ( 少室山 ), one of the seven mountains forming the Songshan mountain range ; it is on this mountain the Temple is situated.

The name " Uralic " refers to the suggested Urheimat ( original homeland ) of the Uralic family, which is often located in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains, as the modern languages are spoken on both sides of this mountain range.

It refers also to several other places around the world, which either derive from Vernon himself or from the Washington estate, the exception being the Anglicisation of the Greek mountain range Verno:

" According to this source, the name refers to the picturesque mountain peaks called the Needles, located near the Colorado River a few miles south of the city of Needles, California.

The term alpine refers to the Alps, a European mountain range.

The name of Barcelona's hill thus refers to the popular tradition that it was in fact the exceedingly high mountain itself.

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Descent into the maelstrom ," the narrator, looking down on the whirlpool from a mountain, refers to the water as " the howling Phlegethon below ," signifying its danger and coiling effect.

Also refers to the mountain of the west wind.

" It refers to the large stands of walnut trees that once stood in the mountain pass where Nogales is located.

Most people assume the name refers to a mountain, but the word is an archaic Spanish translation of that era, there were no mountains in the valley.

Its motto, inscribed on the city flag, is " The Blue Mountain City " ( its official slogan is " A city set upon a mountain cannot be hidden "), and refers to the Blue Lupine flower that used to grow on Blue Mountain in the spring.

Among skiers, the term " Sun Valley " refers to the alpine ski area, which consists of Bald Mountain, the main ski mountain adjacent to Ketchum, and Dollar Mountain, adjacent to Sun Valley, for novice and lower intermediate skiers.

An early Latin source refers to the mountain as Mons Casule.

( The term " notch " is the local equivalent of " pass " or " gap ", and refers to a low place between mountains or mountain ranges.

He called his settlement Achter Kol, or rear mountain pass, which refers to its accessibility to the interior behind the Palisades.

The name " Back Mountain " refers to the area's location behind the mountain ridge forming the northwest side of the Wyoming Valley.

In the Mongolian language, the word ar refers to the back side of something, which has been extended to mean the northern side of any spatial entity, e. g. a mountain or a yurt.

The word öbür refers to the south ( and thus protected ) side of a mountain.

The French term Montagnard, meaning " People from the mountain ( s )" refers to an indigenous people group generally from the Central Highlands of Vietnam.