chine

إِنْجِلِيْزِيَّة

المعاني

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

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قالب:wikipedia قالب:wikipedia chine

1. The top of a ridge.
2. The spine of an animal.
3. قالب:nautical a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
4. (Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea

Quotations

spine

1. • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     ...the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been interecepted by our big signboard...

ravine

1. • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 169

     In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.

Translations

angle in the hull 

Finnish: palle

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Irish

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• أصد: ‎[ˈçɪnʲə]‎

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1. قالب:mutation of

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Italian

Adjective

chine ج.

1. قالب:feminine of

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chine مؤ.

1. صِيْغَةُ جَمْعٍ مُفْرَدُهَا [[china]].