tramline
IPA: trˈæmɫaɪn
noun
- (rail transport) The rails that a tram runs on.
- (tennis, Britain) Either of the two pairs of sidelines marked on a tennis court which mark the outside of the singles and doubles playing areas.
- (film) A scratch on a film, usually vertical, that extends through multiple frames.
- (medicine) A mark or bruise having the shape of two parallel lines.
- (lexicography, Oxford English Dictionary jargon) A pair of vertical bars (||) placed to the left of the headword in certain editions of the OED to indicate that the term is "alien or not fully naturalized" (such as a recent borrowing).
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Examples of "tramline" in Sentences
- All passes are right hand tramline.
- The station was opened in 1888 along with the tramline.
- This corresponds to the course of the tramline to Darmstadt.
- A horse drawn tramline was built to try improve connections.
- A tramline ran through the street in the early 20th century.
- He said a "tramline" scar 5cm long and 6mm wide was found on
- It was said to not be cost effective to maintain the tramline.
- The Gosselies branch will also open as a street level tramline.
- This interweaves with a combined heritage and commuter tramline.
- This was the first electric tramline in the southern hemisphere.
- A tramline was built to the shore and ore shipments began in 1914.
- The game finishes when a poor Murray backhand lands about a metre outside the tramline.
- Last July, an angry Palestinian hijacked a bulldozer working near the tramline on Jaffa Road.
- Once a rusting wreck, it boasts a cleaned-up riverfront and a high-tech tramline along its once-derelict railroad tracks.
- Of course Edinburgh council want to stall it - they're up to their eyes in debt and court cases in connection with their tramline.
- Re point 4 - if even folk who are against the tramline think it must nonetheless be built (e.g. you) then support must be pretty high.
- Dublin's Luas tramline will soon be extended to Carrickmines from the city center, which Mr. Maslanka hopes will add value to his new home.
- Forest once reached from the foothills of the Tararua Ranges to the dunes, but it was cleared by 1880, within 20 years of a tramline reaching the area.
- Hajek deals with it expertly, pulling off an exquisite sliced forehand volley that skipped away off the intersection of service box and inner tramline to leave Murray without a prayer of retrieving it.
- By the time he arrived in a blacked-out motorcade, and was hustled in through the bookshop doors under an umbrella and past the three-for-two offers, O'Connell Street and Dublin's main tramline had been shut all morning.