Cline vs Clane - What's the difference?
cline | clane |
(biology) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.
Any graduated continuum.
* 2005 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction , p. 412
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Frank J. Webb, title=The Garies and Their Friends, chapter=, edition=
, passage=One o' 'em, night before last, split Mikey Dolan's head clane open, and it's a small chance of his life he's got to comfort himself wid." " }}
* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Grace S. Richmond, title=The Brown Study, chapter=, edition=
, passage=So it's clane she is, if she ain't got into no mischief the half hour." }}
As a noun cline
is a gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.As a proper noun Cline
is {{surname}.As an adjective clane is
eye dialect of lang=en.cline
English
Noun
(en noun)- This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …
Derived terms
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*clane
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Adjective
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