Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gradual change in a character or feature across the distributional range of a species or population, usually correlated with an environmental or geographic transition.
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- noun biology A
gradation in acharacter orphenotype within aspecies or other group. - noun Any
graduated continuum .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hate to muddy the waters, Jenny, but apparently it's not meaningful to give average weights because there is a "cline" in size from Spitzbergen, where the bears are smallest, to the Bering Strait where they are largest.
Surfacing 2007
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I speculate that, at least in the western half of Eurasia, Europe and Africa, there is a "cline" running from, say, Finland in the north to sub-Saharan Africa in the south, of decreasing personal tendency toward monogamousness.
More on polygamy in France Steve Sailer 2005
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I speculate that, at least in the western half of Eurasia, Europe and Africa, there is a "cline" running from, say, Finland in the north to sub-Saharan Africa in the south, of decreasing personal tendency toward monogamousness.
Archive 2005-11-13 Steve Sailer 2005
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I agreeand I see sex workers as often as possible. kimberlee cline, on January 20, 2010 at 8: 48 pm Said:
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Van Lier uses this cline of consciousness to support his argument that engagement enhances learning, and that this implies a degree of heightened awareness: “If we want language learning to be a success, we must clearly ensure that receptivity and curiosity are maintained” (p. 48).
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“Second tier and older P2P distribution protocols, like Ares, Gnutella and DirectConnect, continued to de cline in 2008 and account for close to 10% of infringement found during the year.”
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If you think the answer to this puzzle is a cline, rather than a single choice, then try this:
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As the fortunes of Wall Street and the City of London de cline, moneymen are look ing east for new bases.
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Music: patsy cline - these boots are made for walking
he's got a mean look sittin' on in his eye, gonna shoot some poor son of a bitch just to see him die matociquala 2007
yarb commented on the word cline
Bright derision can easily grade, through a cline of glee, into a look of rapture...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 4, 2008
nuxiy commented on the word cline
"Gradual change in frequency of genotypes and phenotypes over geographical space, usually related to a corresponding environmental change."
- SNPA
March 22, 2009