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desire lines

desire lines is the plural of desire line.

Meaning of desire line

Noun

desire line (plural desire lines)

  1. A path that pedestrians or vehicles take informally rather than taking a sidewalk or set route, for example, a well-worn ribbon of dirt cutting across a patch of grass, or a path in the snow.
    • The grouping of like trips for all passenger cars, taxi-cabs and trucks resulted in 3580 desire lines, varying in volume from one trip to 5200 trips. It is obvious that if all the desire lines were illustrated graphically on one chart the result would be a maze of lines that would be confusing.1947, Missouri State Highway Department; Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency [United States], A Traffic Survey of St. Louis Metropolitan Area, [Jefferson, Mo.]: The Department, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    desire path

Questions about desire lines

What is desire lines the plural of?
Desire lines is the plural of desire line.

Words near desire lines in the dictionary

  1. desirablenesses
  2. desirables
  3. desirably
  4. desire
  5. desire line
  6. desire lines
  7. desire path
  8. desire paths
  9. desireable
  10. desireableness
  11. desired

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