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A mesa is a hill with a flat top and steep sides, like a table of rock standing up from the land. You meet the word most in the southwestern United States — dry, open country in places such as Arizona and New Mexico — and in writing about that landscape. It is a geography word, not everyday British English. Though actually, people sometimes stretch it to any flat-topped hill, but the classic picture is that table shape in the American Southwest, not a mountain with a sharp peak.
From the word’s history
First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa 'table', from Latin mēnsa.
1759年借自西班牙文 mesa「桌子」，源自拉丁文 mēnsa。
組成First used in English in 1759, from Spanish mesa, table, from Latin mēnsa. It is a doublet of mensa — the two English words come from the same Latin source.
同家族的字
- mensadoublet: both from Latin mensa, table
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A town in Mozambique.
mesanoun/ˈmeɪ.sə/
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A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
- A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
- Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricitya structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
- The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。