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LYRIC |
Number line |
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...NEVER SAY HER NAME |
Complete the line from Cold Chisel’s Flame Trees: “Number three is…” |
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VERSE |
A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see
Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules. |
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DENOMINATOR |
That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions
which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided. |
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TRAFFIC |
The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc.,
with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight
carried. |
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COLUMN |
A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in
single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line",
where they are side by side. |
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SPILLIARD FISHING |
A system or method of fishing by means of a number
of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called
trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. |
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PART |
Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number
of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; --
the opposite ... |
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SCHEMA |
...eneral
conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as,
five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding an... |
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SECANT |
...rough one
end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other
end; the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the ... |
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KNOT |
...e rate of
the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to
a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots ... |
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STRING |
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are
strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or
series of thing... |
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VERNIER |
.... It is so graduated that a
certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain
number, either one less or one more, of the d... |