cliff

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", "If you want to drive off a cliff, go right ahead.

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a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop"

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noun

a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for cliff.

noun

a steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop"

Example sentences

", "If you want to drive off a cliff, go right ahead.

Forget the slippery slope, this is the cliff.

Whenever he's standing at the edge of the cliff, on the ground, the ground beneath his feet paws?

Do what your lawyer says, or get one to sign off on the standard four-year+1-year-cliff scheme for your state.

I'd seen compaq go from dominating PDAs and nosedive off the cliff.

I literally felt like I was watching 24, with cliff-hangers and all.

Did myspace?Yes...?Not literally, but in many other ways they absolutely fell off a cliff.

Games almost universally have a big spike at lunch, declining sales through the launch window, and then they fall off a cliff and never recover.

Given that fact, it makes sense to hypothesize that the time between the moment when Wile E. steps off the cliff and when he begins to fall will be equal to or more than the distance between him and the ground divided by the speed of light.

Like a lot of metabolically disadvantaged people, I feel betrayed and tossed off a cliff by a society that doesn't understand and doesn't care.

It's not hard to imagine Enron executives saying anything, because Enron was a sham business, "faking it until they made it" or, as it happened, fell off a cliff.

But just how much time does elapse, in real life, between stepping off a cliff and beginning to fall?We can approach the problem naively by remembering that all propagating phenomena in the universe are limited by the speed of light.