Valley vs. Gorge

Valleynoun

An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

Valleynoun

The area which drains into a river.

Valleynoun

Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.

Valleynoun

The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Valleynoun

The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.

Valleynoun

The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.

Valleynoun

a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

Valleynoun

a low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it

Valleynoun

an internal angle formed by the intersecting planes of a roof, or by the slope of a roof and a wall.

Valley

A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over a very long period of time.

Gorgenoun

(archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.

Gorgenoun

The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; the crop or gizzard of a hawk.

Gorgenoun

Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.

Gorgenoun

(US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.

Gorgenoun

(architectural element) A concave moulding; a cavetto.

Gorgenoun

The entrance to an outwork, such as a bastion.

Gorgenoun

(fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

Gorgenoun

(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.

Gorgenoun

(mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.

Gorgenoun

An act of gorging.

Gorgeverb

To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. on

Gorgeverb

(transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

Gorgeverb

(transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.

Gorgeverb

(transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

Gorgeadjective

(slang) Gorgeous.

Gorgenoun

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

Gorgenoun

A narrow passage or entrance

Gorgenoun

That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

Gorgenoun

A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

Gorgenoun

A concave molding; a cavetto.

Gorgenoun

The groove of a pulley.

Gorgenoun

A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.

Gorgeverb

To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

Gorgeverb

To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

Gorgeverb

To eat greedily and to satiety.

Gorgenoun

a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)

Gorgenoun

a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

Gorgenoun

the passage between the pharynx and the stomach

Gorgeverb

overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;

Gorgenoun

a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.

Gorgenoun

the throat.

Gorgenoun

the crop of a hawk.

Gorgenoun

the contents of the stomach.

Gorgenoun

a narrow rear entrance to a bastion, outwork, or other fortification.

Gorgenoun

a mass of ice obstructing a narrow passage, especially a river.

Gorgeverb

eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food