global warming
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sustained increase in the average temperature of the Earth, sufficient to cause climate change.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming."
- "In the popular imagination, global warming is mostly seen as a threat to cold-loving species, and there are good reasons for this. […] But global warming is going to have just as great an impact—indeed, according to Silman, an even greater impact—in the tropics."
- "The study is one of the first to implicate global warming from human activities as one of the factors that played into the Syrian conflict which is estimated to have claimed more than 190,000 lives."
- "The pope’s acceptance that global warming is almost certainly man-made has irked the vocal minority with more skeptical views."
- "The Tibetan Plateau will experience significant water loss this century due to global warming, according to research published Monday that warns of severe supply stress in a climate change "hotspot"."