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stringlines

stringlines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stringline.

Meaning of stringline

Verb

stringline (third-person singular simple present stringlines, present participle stringlining, simple past and past participle stringlined)

  1. To derail on sharply curving track, usually due to incorrectly distributed weight
    • The train stringlined on a curve when the engineer increased power at the front.2007 July 11, Allan Dowd, “CN Rail criticized by Canadian derailment probe”, in Reuters

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Questions about stringlines

What is stringlines the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stringlines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stringline.

Words near stringlines in the dictionary

  1. stringless beans
  2. stringlessness
  3. stringlike
  4. stringline
  5. stringlined
  6. stringlines
  7. stringlining
  8. stringly
  9. stringly typed
  10. stringly-typed
  11. stringmaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stringlines (page history and authors); stringline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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