different between cline vs clime

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

Etymology

From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek ????? (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from ????? (klín?, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kla?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m
• Homophone: climb

Noun

clime (countable and uncountable, plural climes)

1. A particular region defined by its weather or climate.

   After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.

   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society, page 9:

     My ?oul turn from them, turn we to ?urvey
     Where rougher climes a nobler race di?play,

2. Climate.

   A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.

Anagrams

• melic