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Short Line

Definition: Short Line

Short Line

Noun

1. A transportation system that operates over relatively short distances.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Short Line

English words defined with "short line": BecketCapoc, curlicueGangion, golden mean, golden sectionIndented lineJessledger line, leger line, line, line of forceNebuly, noterailroad siding, Return creaseserif, seriph, short letter, sidetrack, siding, Snell, Snotter, squiggleTriolet. (references)
Specialty definitions using "short line": angle troughbuffer overflowEXECUTIVE TRAINEEfender beltingH-displayleading headingPlane of the ecliptic, polar coordinatesReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, rubbing bands, rubbing piece, rubbing strake, rubbing stripsidesteppingT-B cell, telescopic loading trough, transmitter blocker cellV tapeWRITER, PROSE, FICTION AND NONFICTION. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Short Line

DomainTitle

Books

  • Short Line to Cripple Creek (Colorado Rail Annual, No 16) (reference)

  • Short line to paradise; the story of the Yosemite Valley Railroad (reference)

  • The Sewer City Short Line of the Southern Oregon Live-Steamers (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Short Line

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On the Oregon "Short Line," Columbia River. Credit: Library of Congress.

Colorado Springs from Point Sublime, Colorado, C.S. & C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Towards Duffield's from St. Peter's, Colorado, C.S. & C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

St. Peter's dome, Colorado, C.S. & C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Short line bridge between St. Paul and Minneapolis. Credit: Library of Congress.

Panorama from Point Sublime, C.S. & C.C. [Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cathedral Park near Clyde, C.S.& C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek] Short Line. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Anagrams: Short Line

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-n-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: holstein, horniest, hotlines, neoliths, ornithes, retinols.

-2 letters: entoils, eoliths, estriol, ethions, heriots, heroins, hinters, histone, hoister, holiest, holster, hornets, hornist, hostile, hostler, hotline, inshore, linters, loiters, neolith, nerolis, norites, nostril, oestrin, orients, retinol, shorten, shortie, slither, stonier, thrones, toilers.

-3 letters: elints, eloins, enlist, enrols, entoil, eolith, estrin, ethion, ethnos, helios, helots, heriot, heroin.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-n-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: holstering.

 

+2 letters: chlorinates, interschool, neutrophils, northerlies.

 

+3 letters: chlorinities, interschools, moonlighters, motherliness, nephrologist, phrenologist, relationship, thermoclines, upholstering.

 

+4 letters: anthologizers, brotherliness, dechlorinates, exhilarations, flugelhornist, fortnightlies, luteotrophins, lycanthropies, nephrologists, nonhysterical, ornithologies, phrenologists, relationships, rhinoplasties, unrighteously.

 

+5 letters: anthropologies, cholestyramine, cholinesterase, controllership, dinitrophenols, electrofishing, flugelhornists, historicalness, honorabilities, motherlinesses, nephelometries, orthogonalizes, phenobarbitals, philanthropies, pyelonephritis, reupholstering, underclothings, woolgatherings, worthwhileness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Short Line


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 6F 72 74      4C 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110100 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 006F 0072 0074      004C 0069 006E 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5374818486246758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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