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Cline vs Clive - What's the difference?

cline | clive |

As nouns the difference between cline and clive

is that cline is a gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group while clive is burdock or agrimony.

As proper nouns the difference between cline and clive

is that cline is {{surname} while Clive is {{surname|topographic|from=Old English}} - someone who lived near a cliff ( Old English clif).

As a verb clive is

to climb; ascend.

cline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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
    • This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …

    Derived terms

    * clinal

    Related terms

    * climate * clinic * lean

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    clive

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • - someone who lived near a cliff ( (etyl) clif ).
  • derived from the surname. Popular in Britain in mid-twentieth century.
  • * 1949 (Mazo de la Roche), Mary Wakefield , Dundurn Press (2009), ISBN 1550028774, page 132:
    • "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive ." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock."
  • A village in Alberta.
  • A city in Iowa.
  • A town in New Zealand.
  • A village in Shropshire, England.