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Declivity vs Lineage - What's the difference?

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Declivity is a related term of lineage.


As nouns the difference between declivity and lineage

is that declivity is (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill while lineage is descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

declivity

English

Noun

(declivities)
  • (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill
  • *1899 , Joseph Conrad,
  • *:A rocky cliff appeared, mounds of turned–up earth by the shore, houses on a hill, others with iron roofs, amongst a waste of excavations, or hanging to the declivity .
  • a downward bend in a path

    • Related terms

    * decline

    References

    lineage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * linage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=July 19 , author=Ella Davies , title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
  • (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
  • * 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
    • Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region

    Related terms

    * line * lineal * linear

    See also

    * genealogy

    References

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