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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cline
noun
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▪ However, the further rightwards along the cline a metaphor is located, the greater is the potential for multiple interpretations.
▪ In other words, the disposition of the reader is a factor in moving along the cline in either direction.
▪ The cline is represented in Figure 1.
▪ The colouring of Scandinavian cattle in the past was also characteristic in that many showed variations of the colour-sided cline.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cline

1938, in biological use, back-formation from incline or from Greek klinein "to slope, to lean" (see lean (v.)). Middle English had clinen (v.) "to bend, bow," from Old French cliner, from Latin clinare.

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cline

n. (surname)

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Cline (surname)

Cline is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Catherine Ann Cline (1927–2005), American historian and author
  • Charles E. Cline, American politician
  • Edward Cline (b. 1946), American screenwriter and director
  • Eric Cline (b. 1955), Canadian politician
  • Eric H. Cline (b. 1960), American archaeologist
  • Ernest Cline (b. 1972), American comedian and screenwriter
  • Isaac Cline (1861–1955), American meteorologist
  • Kristi Cline (b. 1980), Playboy playmate
  • Leticia Cline (b. 1978), American model and wrestling personality
  • Maggie Cline, (1857–1923), Irish American vaudeville singer
  • Martin Cline (b. 1934), American geneticist
  • Melanie Cline (b. 1975), American BMX racer
  • Melissa S. Cline, American biologist
  • Monk Cline (1858–1916), American baseball player
  • Nels Cline (b. 1956), American guitarist and composer
  • Ollie Cline (1925–2001), American football player
  • Patsy Cline (1932–1963), country music star (born Virginia Hensley)
  • Russell Cline (born c. 1965), American currency trader and conman
  • Sperry Cline (d. 1964), Canadian frontier policeman
  • Ty Cline (b. 1939), American baseball player
  • Victor Cline (born c. 1950), American psychoanalyst
  • Reginald Cline-Cole (fl. c. 2000), Sierra Leonean professor of developmental geography
Cline (biology)

In biology and ecology, an ecocline or simply cline (from "to possess or exhibit gradient, to lean") describes an ecotone in which a series of biocommunities display a continuous gradient. The term was coined by the English evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley in 1938.

More technically, clines consist of ecotypes or forms of species that exhibit gradual phenotypic and/or genetic differences over a geographical area, typically as a result of environmental heterogeneity. Genetically, clines result from the change of allele frequencies within the gene pool of the group of taxa in question. Clines may manifest in time and/or space.

Cline (hydrology)

In hydrology and related sciences and technologies, a cline is a comparatively thin, typically horizontal layer within a fluid, in which a property of the fluid varies greatly over a relatively short vertical distance.

Such clines and the respectively varying properties include:

Category:Hydrology

Usage examples of "cline".

They are fucking their cellos with their fingers, stroking music out, promising the ghost yodels and Patsy Cline and funeral marches and whole cities of music and music to eat and music to drink and music to put on and wear like clothes.

Hunt stated there were numerous ties between the groups and the Richard Secord-Theodore Shackley-and Thomas Clines Associates, all of whom were reportedly associated with the opium trade and assassination program in Laos.

Shackley's later partners in the "Enterprise," Tom Clines and Edwin P.

She looked tired, yes, but gloriously undefeated, and Mitch knew without a doubt that she wasn't going to take Route 285 to Santa Fe and to the Lazy Eight when they hit Clines Corners.

Clines farm was a kind of correctional institution, the code did not apply there.

Cline had one custom often seen among slaveholders: he would take a long rest in the afternoon, then an hour before quitting time he would appear lively and fresh.