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flat land that got too proud, then froze halfway to mountain
means A plateau is an area of relatively flat high ground, or—figuratively—a stable period where progress levels off after a stretch of climbing.
from From French plateau, 'a flat thing, a tray or platter,' built from Old French plat, 'flat,' which traces back to Greek platys, 'broad, flat'—a distant cousin of words like 'place' and 'plate.' English borrowed the geographic sense in the early 19th century, and the figurative 'point where you stop improving' came later, when we noticed life has flat spots too.
- highest
- Tibet sits above 4,500 meters, called Earth's roof
- biggest
- Tibetan Plateau spans roughly 2.5 million square kilometers
- how made
- uplifted by crashing plates or stacked lava flows
- in gyms
- progress stalls because your body adapted, not because you failed
- word origin
- French for flat, kin to plate and platform
tibetan plateau — world's highest plateau at 4,500m average elevation covering 2.5 million km² across china, tibet, and nepal
colorado plateau — 130,000 square mile region spanning utah, colorado, arizona, new mexico containing the grand canyon
anatolian plateau — central turkish highland at 600-1,200m elevation covering most of turkey's interior