Theories of desert are various.
Yuma Desert, arid part of the Sonoran Desert.
Down in the southern desert of Murzuq, along the main smuggling routes from Libya’s porous border desert with Sudan, Libyan residents told The Independent Sudanese fighters in pick-up trucks were tearing their way through the desert to the front lines.
Those who have a night to spare will be rewarded with a camping trip into the desert, which often includes a camel trek from M’hamid into the Merzouga dunes of the Zagora Desert to a Bedouin desert camp, a sunset over the dunes, and a traditional Moroccan dinner under the stars to the tune of local folk music.
The opposite is true if someone has a negative desert level.
These correspond to competing accounts of the basis of desert.
He discusses both “noncomparative desert” and “comparative desert.”
The Nile divides Egypt into the Western Desert and the Eastern Desert.
The area now constitutes Gibson Desert Nature Reserve, and is a home to many desert animals.
The Simpson Desert is the last refuge of some rare Australian desert animals, including the fat-tailed marsupial mouse.
The Arabic word ṣaḥrāʾ simply means “desert,” and its plural form, ṣaḥārāʾ, is where the northern African desert gets its Anglicized name.
Just south of the Mojave Desert is the lower Colorado Desert, an extension of the Sonoran Desert, which begins in the Coachella Valley.
These can usefully be cast, respectively, as the desert subject, the desert object, and the desert basis (Feinberg 1970; Berman 2011: 437).
Some philosophers use the expression ‘pre-institutional desert’ where we use ‘desert’, and ‘institutional desert’ where we use ‘entitlement’.
The Great Sandy Desert stretches southward into the state’s central interior, where it merges imperceptibly with the Gibson Desert, which in turn gives way to the Great Victoria Desert, again to the south.
Although they are not usually assigned to the physiographic Great Basin, the Red Desert of southern Wyoming and the Painted Desert of northern Arizona are sometimes considered as extensions of the Great Basin Desert.
This is due in part to intrinsic physiologic characteristics in some widespread desert families that preadapt the plants to an arid environment; it also is a result of plant migration occurring through chance seed dispersal among desert regions.
While Aristotle proposed virtue, or moral character, to be the best desert-basis for economic distribution, contemporary desert theorists have proposed desert-bases that are more practically implemented in complex modern societies.
The Nile divides the desert plateau through which it flows into two unequal sections—the Western Desert, between the river and the Libyan frontier, and the Eastern Desert, extending to the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea.
Much cooler and higher than the neighboring Great Basin Desert to the north and the Sonoran Desert to the south, the Mojave Desert is considered a rain shadow area, which occurs when an area of land is forced to become a desert due to mountains that block out rain that would otherwise allow most plants to grow.
Desert
verb cognition
- leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
Example: The mother deserted her children
noun attribute
- (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
noun location
- arid land with little or no vegetation
verb social
- desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
Example: If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot
verb motion
- leave behind
Example: the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period
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Much cooler and higher than the neighboring Great Basin Desert to the north and the Sonoran Desert to the south the Mojave Desert is considered a rain shadow area which occurs when an area of land is forced to become a desert due to mountains that block out rain that would otherwise allow most plants to grow