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PRONUNCIATION OF DATE LINE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DATE LINE

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Date line is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DATE LINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

International Date Line

The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth that runs from the north to the south pole and demarcates one calendar day from the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° longitude but it deviates to pass around some territories and island groups. The IDL is on the opposite side of the Earth to the Prime Meridian. The Prime Meridian is used to define Universal Time and is the meridian from which all other time zones are calculated. Time zones to the east of the Prime Meridian are in advance of UTC; time zones to the west are behind UTC. The IDL is the line between those highest and those lowest time zones. The IDL and the moving point of midnight separate the two calendar days that are current somewhere on Earth. However, during a two-hour period between 10:00 and 11:59 each day, three different calendar days are in use. This is because of daylight saving in the UTC+12 zone and the use of additional date-shifted time zones in areas east of the 180th meridian.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DATE LINE

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dated
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Datel
dateless
dateline
dater
dates

WORDS THAT END LIKE DATE LINE

all along the line
bottom line
cell line
command line
credit line
dotted line
finish line
front line
hold the line
hotline
land line
lay on the line
on line
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red line
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six-yard line
step out of line
tag line
toe the line

Synonyms and antonyms of date line in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «date line» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DATE LINE

Find out the translation of date line to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of date line from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «date line» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

日线
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

línea de la fecha
570 millions of speakers

English

date line
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तिथि लाइन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

خط التاريخ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Дата линия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

linha de data
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তারিখ লাইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Date de la ligne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tarikh tarikh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Datumsgrenze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

日付変更線
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

날짜 변경선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanggal baris
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

dòng ngày
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தேதி வரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तारीख रेखा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tarih çizgisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

linea data
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Data linii
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Дата лінія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

linie dată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημερομηνία line
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

datum lyn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

datum linje
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

datolinjen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of date line

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DATE LINE»

The term «date line» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.274 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DATE LINE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about date line

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DATE LINE»

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Physical Geography
The International Date Line On the opposite side of Earth from the prime meridian is the International Date Line. It is a line that generally follows the 180th meridian, except for jogs to separate Alaska and Siberia and to skirt some Pacific island ...
Robert Gabler, James Petersen, L. Trapasso, 2008
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Sabbath Challenge, Sabbath Delight
Question 4: Has the International Date Line made Sabbath observance meaningless for those living in modern times? Answer: The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line running from the North Pole to the South Pole that is, ...
David Bird, 2003
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The Rotarian
The need for a Date Line, formally established among all nations by the International Meridian Conference in 1884 in Washington, D. C, didn't occur to man until some 400 years ago. Fefore then, exploration hadn't begun to catch up with ...
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Longman Geography ICSE 9
International Date Line Halfway around the globe from the Prime Meridian there are 180 degrees longitudes to the east and another 180 degrees longitudes to the west. The longitude of 180° E and W is the same meridian. The time zone that  ...
Duggal, Duggal Gita
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Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the ...
Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger. thinking about Tuesday's meal. Somewhere along his journey, Monday suddenly became Tuesday. That somewhere is the date line, on one side ...
Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger, 2006
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World Geography' 2007 Ed.
The creation of the International Date Line (IDL) eliminated problems on time. The International Date Line is the place where one calendar day ends and the next begins. The International Date Line is an imaginary line located at 180 degrees ...
C. Duka
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Let's Review: Earth science-- the physical setting
Point A is now at 2:00 A.M. Monday and point B goes from 1 1:00 Monday to midnight, but the date line goes from midnight on Monday night to 1:00 P.M. on Tuesday morning. The date line is still 12 hours behind GMT (1:00 P.M. - 12 hr = 1:00 ...
Edward J. Denecke, William H. Carr, 2008
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Comprehension of Graphics
As mentioned above, the date line (shown as a dotted line on the map) was ignored significantly more often by the less successful learners. We interpreted this to mean that the corresponding mental entity (the 'mental' date line) was frequently ...
W. Schnotz, R.W. Kulhavy, 1994
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Selling Destinations
Because it stretches out their workday, many business travelers count on this. The International Date Line. A rather challenging bit of time zone figuring involves the international date line, a vertical zigzagging line that bisects the Pacific Ocean ...
Marc Mancini, 2008
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Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Reasoning
Frequently, subjects also do not recognize the function of the date line and its relation to time zones. The following statements are typical examples: (6) If someone travels eastward and enters a new time zone, he has to add one hour to the ...
G. Rickheit, C. Habel, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DATE LINE»

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Improving Weighing Performance During Typhoons
This region includes the South China Sea and territory north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. The Northwest Pacific Basin ... «R & D Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Tropical depression expected to form southeast of Big Island, could …
... basin, which is where Hawaii is located, spans an area north of the equator from 140 degrees west longitude to the international date line. «West Hawaii Today, Jul 15»
3
Greece fall-out: EURUSD totters, AUDUSD heavily hit
The international date line dictates that the New Zealand financial markets are the first in the world to open on Monday mornings. This have ... «TradingFloor.com, Jul 15»
4
Life on board as a seafarer
When they pass through the International Date Line or equator, there is a ceremony or party for first-time seafarers. Upon reaching the invisible ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
5
No tropical cyclone formation forecast during next 48 hours
... the area, which covers an area north of the equator from 140 degrees west longitude to the international date line, through Friday morning. «West Hawaii Today, Jul 15»
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Are we in for another big, bad El Nino?
A NIWA climate update issued today also stated cloudiness, rainfall and convection activity near and to the east of the International Date Line ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»
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Hawaiian Airlines promotes four-day trips to Hawaii to Australians
... HA flight 452 from Sydney leaving at 9:20 p.m. and arriving in Honolulu at 11:05 a.m. on the same day because of the International Date Line. «Pacific Business News, Jun 15»
8
China Eastern links LA with Chengdu and Nanjing
... having crossed the International Date Line. The return flights will then leave LA at 1330 and arrive back into Chengdu at 2150 the next day, ... «Travel Daily Media, Jun 15»
9
Precious Time: The Challenge of Building a Better Atomic Clock
However, the place where longitude equals zero, known as the International Date Line, does not have a basis in nature. As evidenced by ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
10
Pacific Pivot Makes Modest Gains in Early Years
The Navy forward-deployed additional forces west of the International Date Line, with two more destroyers stationed in Japan and a second ... «Military.com, Jun 15»

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