This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’.
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Tuff
//tʌf//
Synonyms for "tuff" (17 found)
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35 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πῶρος noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Armenian
1 entries- տուֆ noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Basque
1 entries- toba noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Bulgarian
1 entries- туф noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Catalan
1 entries- tuf noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 凝灰岩 noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Czech
1 entries- tuf noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Dutch
1 entries- tufsteen noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Finnish
1 entries- tuffi noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
French
2 entries- tuf noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
- tuf volcanique noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Galician
1 entries- tufo noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
German
2 entries- Tuff noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
- Tuffstein noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Greek
1 entries- τόφφος noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Hungarian
1 entries- tufa noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Icelandic
1 entries- móberg noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Irish
1 entries- tuf noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Italian
1 entries- tufo noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Japanese
1 entries- 凝灰岩 noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Javanese
1 entries- ꦮꦠꦸꦥꦸꦠꦶꦃ noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Korean
1 entries- 응회암 noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Navajo
1 entries- dleesh (rhyolitic tuff) noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Polish
1 entries- tuf wulkaniczny noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Portuguese
1 entries- tofo noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Romanian
1 entries- tuf noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Russian
1 entries- вулкани́ческий туф noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- sedra noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Spanish
2 entries- toba noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
- tufo noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Swedish
1 entries- tuff noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Turkish
1 entries- tüf noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вулканічний туф noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đá túp noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Welsh
1 entries- twff noun (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ...
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… yet never to make us so strong as the strongest of Men, whose Sinnews are tuffer, and Bones stronger, and Joints closer, and Flesh firmer, than ours are …
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It was rave reviewed in the Caribbean Times as 'the ruffest, tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'.
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