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fall line
(Encyclopedia) fall line, boundary between an upland region and a coastal plain across which rivers from the upland region drop to the plain as falls or rapids. A fall line is formed in an area where…Wallace's line
(Encyclopedia) Wallace's line, imaginary line postulated by A. R. Wallace as the dividing line between Asian and Australian fauna in the Malay Archipelago. It passes between Bali and Lombok islands…base line
(Encyclopedia) base line: see geodesy.snow line
(Encyclopedia) snow line, altitude above which or latitude beyond which snow does not melt in summer (usually called the permanent snow line), or, in winter, the line to which snow extends at a given…Mason and Dixon's Line
Mason and Dixon's Line (often called the Mason-Dixon Line) is the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, running at a north latitude of 39°43'19.11". The greater part of it was surveyed from…The Thin Red Line
Director/Writer:Terrence MalickTwentieth Century Fox; R; 170 minutesCast:Sean Penn, Adrian Brody, Ben Chaplin, Nick Nolte, John Travolta, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Dash…Brewer's: Hard Lines
Hard terms; “rather rough treatment;” exacting. Lines mean lot or allotment (measured out by a line measure), as, “The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly…Brewer's: Bee-line
The line that a bee, takes in making for the hive; the shortest distance between two given points. “Our footmarks, seen afterwards, showed that we had steered a bee-line to the brig.” —…Brewer's: Air-line
signifies (in the United States) the most direct and shortest possible route between two given places, as the Eastern and Western Air-line Railway. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Isothermal Lines
I'sothermal Lines Lines laid down in maps to show the places which have the same mean temperature. (Greek, isos thermos, equal heat.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Trending
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