different between cline vs aline

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

Ancient Greek ?????? (kl??n?, “to lean, incline”).

Noun

cline (plural clines)

1. (systematics) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.
2. Any graduated continuum.
   • 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, p. 412

     This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …

Derived terms

• clinal

Related terms

• client
• climate
• climax
• clinic
• clivus
• lean

Etymology 2

From c(ircle) + line; compare circline.

Noun

cline (plural clines)

1. (geometry, inversive geometry) A generalized circle.
   • 2011, Dominique Michelucci, What is a Line?, Pascal Schreck, Julien Narboux, Jürgen Richter-Gebert (editors), Automated Deduction in Geometry, 8th International Workshop, ADG 2010, Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 6877, page 139,

     Let ? be a fixed, arbitrary, point. Then circles (in the classical sense) through ? can be considered as lines. For convenience, such circles are called clines in this section. Two distinct clines cut in one point (ignoring ? and the two cyclic points); it can happen that ? is a double intersection point; in this case, one may say that the two clines are parallel, and that they meet at a point at infinity, which is ?.

Synonyms

• (generalized circle): circline, generalized circle

Further reading

• cline at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• incel, incle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??la?n/, /æ?la?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From a- +? line, possibly from Middle English alinen (“copulate”), Middle French aligner.

Verb

aline (third-person singular simple present alines, present participle alining, simple past and past participle alined)

1. Obsolete form of align. or misspelling

Etymology 2

From Middle English aline (“in line”)

Adverb

aline (comparative more aline, superlative most aline)

1. In line

Derived terms

• alinement

Anagrams

• Elain, Elian, Elina, Nelia, alien, anile, elain, laine, liane, linea

Middle English

Etymology

a- +? line.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?li?n(?)/

Adverb

aline

1. In (a straight) line.
   • c. 1400, Chaucer

References

• “al?ne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?line]

Verb

aline

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of alina
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of alina