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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river, about 100 km (60 mi) long, of northern England flowing eastward to the North Sea.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See tine, tine, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Obs. or Scot. To lose.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A prong or point of an antler.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To become lost; to perish.
  • noun obsolete Anxiety; tine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A river in the county of Tyne and Wear in north east England. The city of Newcastle upon Tyne is found upon its northern bank and Gateshead is found upon its southern bank.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea

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Examples

  • Except that Newcastle upon Tyne is not a Labour council.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Public transport users in Tyne and Wear may soon be able to use their mobile phone as a bus or train ticket. posted by bidlab at

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • Except that Newcastle upon Tyne is not a Labour council.

    I won't say my mother-in-law's fat 2005

  • Public transport users in Tyne and Wear may soon be able to use their mobile phone as a bus or train ticket. posted by bidlab at

    SMS tickets 2005

  • At Newcastle on Tyne, the small rivulet called the Tyne, once two or three feet deep, has been excavated for many miles and changed into a mighty river accommodating ships drawing thirty feet.

    At the Heart of the Empire 1912

  • One of the most curious sights upon the Tyne is the fleet of hundreds of these black-sailed, black-hulled keels, bringing down at each tide their black cargoes for the ships at anchor in the deep water at Shields and other parts of the river below Newcastle.

    Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Out of this smoke-cloud rose tall steeples; and it was discernible that the town stretched widely over an uneven surface, on the banks of the Tyne, which is navigable up hither ten miles from the sea for pretty large vessels.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Out of this smoke-cloud rose tall steeples; and it was discernible that the town stretched widely over an uneven surface, on the banks of the Tyne, which is navigable up hither ten miles from the sea for pretty large vessels.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • 'Town' is Newcastle upon Tyne, which is a small city in the North

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2010

  • The scale of some, such as Tyne Cot, is almost overwhelming and it is hard to avoid shedding a tear or two.

    Remembering Captain Jack Webster 2007

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