different between cline vs chine

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

• IPA^(key): /t?a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skina, from Proto-Germanic *skin?. Doublet of shin.

Alternative forms

• chimb, chime

Noun

chine (plural chines)

1. The top of a ridge.
2. The spine of an animal.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     […] the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard […]
3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
4. (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
5. (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
6. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
7. The back of the blade on a scythe.

Translations

Verb

chine (third-person singular simple present chines, present participle chining, simple past and past participle chined)

1. (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
2. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chin (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ?ine, ?inu, from Proto-Germanic *kin?.

Noun

chine (plural chines)

1. (Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
   • 1885, Jean Ingelow, A Cottage in a Chine

     The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.

   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 169

     In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.

Related terms

• chine
• chink

Etymology 3

From Middle English ch?nen (“to crack, fissure, split”), from Old English ??nan (“to break into pieces, burst, crack”), from Proto-Germanic *k?nan? (“to split; crack; germinate; sprout”).

Verb

chine (third-person singular simple present chines, present participle chining, simple past and past participle chined or chone or chane)

1. (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break. [9th-16th c.]
   • 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge ... the seven penytencyall Psalms

     After the erth be brent, chyned & chypped by the hete of the sonne.

Related terms

• chine

References

• An historical dictionary

Anagrams

• Chien, niche

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -in

Verb

chine

1. first-person singular present indicative of chiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of chiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of chiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of chiner
5. second-person singular imperative of chiner

Anagrams

• chien, niche, niché

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ç?n??]

Noun

chine m

1. Lenited form of cine.

Italian

Adjective

chine

1. feminine plural of chino

Noun

chine f pl

1. plural of china