different between cline vs kline

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

Noun

kline (plural klines)

1. Alternative form of k-line

Verb

kline (third-person singular simple present klines, present participle klining, simple past and past participle klined)

1. Alternative form of k-line

Anagrams

• Elkin, Klein, inkle, lekin, liken

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish klinæ, from Old Norse klína, from Proto-Germanic *kleinijan-, from Proto-Indo-European *gley-.

Verb

kline (imperative, infinitive at kline, present tense kliner, past tense klinede, perfect tense har klinet)

1. to daub, smear
2. to build a primitive mud house

References

• “kline” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse klína, from Proto-Germanic *kleinijan-, from Proto-Indo-European *gley-. Compare Old High German klenan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²kli?.n?/

Verb

kline (present tense kliner, past tense klinte, past participle klint)

1. to smear (distribute in a thin layer))
2. to tongue kiss

References

• “kline”, in: Bjorvand & Lindeman, Våre arveord, rev. ed. Oslo, 2007.
• “kline” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• klina (a- infinitive)

Etymology

From Old Norse klína.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²kli?.n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

kline (present tense kliner, past tense klinte, past participle klint, passive infinitive klinast, present participle klinande, imperative klin)

1. to smear (distribute in a thin layer)
2. to tongue kiss

References

• “kline” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kline (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. vocative singular of kl?n