The blast blew a gaping crater in the road.
We peered over the lip of the crater into the volcano.
crater lake - кратерное озеро; озеро в кратере потухшего вулкана
lunar crater - лунный кратер
to be cratered by bombs [by meteorites] - изрытый бомбами [метеоритами] (о земле и т. п.)
• Big depression
• Big divot, slangily
• Bomb vestige
• Bowl-shaped cavity
• Copernicus, for one
• Copernicus, on the moon
• Evidence of a major impact
• Famed Ore. lake
• Feature of Fujiyama
• Fuji opening
• Great depression
• Haleakala
• Hole in the ground
• Impact evidence
• Impact hole
• Impact site
• Judge missing since 1930
• Judge who became 'the missingest man in New York' in 1930
• Kilauea, for one
• Lake bed, at times
• Lake in Ore.
• Lunar depression
• Lunar feature
• Lunar landscape feature
• Lunar locale
• Major impact evidence
• Meteor indentation
• Meteorite evidence
• Meteorite's aftermath
• Meteorite's creation
• Meteoroid's creation
• Missing judge
• Moon cavity
• Moon depression
• Moon feature
• Moon pock
• Mt. Mazama lake
• Oregon's ___ Lake
• Packer of produce in depression? (6)
• Pit
• Proof of an impact
• Result of a meteorite impact
• Serious depression
• Sign of a big hit?
• Tycho, on the moon
• Type of lake
• Volcano basin
• Volcano cavity
• Volcano feature
• Western lake bed
• A bowl-shaped opening at the top of a volcano
• A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus
• A bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb
1. 1) жерло, кратер (вулкана)
~ lake - кратерное озеро; озеро в кратере потухшего вулкана
2) кратер, чашевидное углубление; воронка (от метеорита, снаряда)
lunar ~ - лунный кратер
2. 1) ист. кратер, плоская чаша для вина (у греков и римлян)
2) церк. кратир (церковная чаша)
3. (Crater) астр. Чаша (созвездие)
2. {ʹkreıtə} v1) покрывать воронками, ямами и т. п.
to be ~ed by bombs {by meteorites} - изрытый бомбами {метеоритами} (о земле и т. п.)
2) образовывать кратер, воронку, яму и т. п.
CRATER, éris, Gr. Κρατὴρ, ῆρος, am Himmel, ist der Becher, worinnen der Rabe ehemals dem Apollo Wasser zum Opfer holen sollte. Eratosth. Cataster. 41. Sieh Corvus. Jedoch wollen ihn andere lieber für den Becher ansehen, worinnen Ikarius den Leuten den ersten Wein vorgesetzet, oder auch den, worinnen Matusius dem Demiphon seiner Töchter Blut unter dem Weine mit zu trinken gegeben, wogegen noch andere solchen Becher für das Gefäß halten, worein Othus und Ephialtes ehemals den Mars gefangen geleget. Hygin. Astron. Poët. lib. II. c. 40.