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Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.
Cheryl Hayashi

Meaning of "dragline" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRAGLINE

dragline  [ˈdræɡˌlaɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRAGLINE

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Dragline is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DRAGLINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dragline

Dragline excavator

A dragline excavator is a piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining. Draglines fall into two broad categories: those that are based on standard, lifting cranes and the heavy units which have to be built on-site. Most crawler cranes with an added winch drum on the front can act as a dragline. These units are designed to be dismantled and transported over the road on flatbed trailers. Draglines used in civil engineering are almost always of this smaller, crane type. These are used for road, port construction, pond and canal dredging, and as pile driving rigs. These types are built by crane manufacturers such as Linkbelt and Hyster. The much larger type which is built on site is commonly used in strip-mining operations to remove overburden above coal and more recently for tar-sand mining. The largest heavy draglines are among the largest mobile land machines ever built. The smallest and most common of the heavy type weigh around 8,000 tons while the largest built weighed around 13,000 tons. A dragline bucket system consists of a large bucket which is suspended from a boom with wire ropes.

Definition of dragline in the English dictionary

The definition of dragline in the dictionary is Also called: dragline crane, dragline excavator. a power shovel that operates by being dragged by cables at the end of an arm or jib: used for quarrying, opencast mining, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRAGLINE


airline
ˈɛəˌlaɪn
alkaline
ˈælkəˌlaɪn
baseline
ˈbeɪsˌlaɪn
borderline
ˈbɔːdəˌlaɪn
Caroline
ˈkærəˌlaɪn
crystalline
ˈkrɪstəˌlaɪn
dateline
ˈdeɪtˌlaɪn
deadline
ˈdɛdˌlaɪn
guideline
ˈɡaɪdˌlaɪn
headline
ˈhɛdˌlaɪn
hotline
ˈhɒtˌlaɪn
logline
ˈlɒɡˌlaɪn
neckline
ˈnɛkˌlaɪn
offline
ˈɒfˌlaɪn
online
ˈɒnˌlaɪn
outline
ˈaʊtˌlaɪn
pipeline
ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn
skyline
ˈskaɪˌlaɪn
streamline
ˈstriːmˌlaɪn
timeline
ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRAGLINE

dragged
dragger
draggier
draggiest
dragging
draggingly
draggle
draggletailed
draggy
draghound
dragline crane
dragline excavator
dragnet
dragoman
dragomen
dragon
dragon fruit
dragon light
dragon market
dragon tree

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRAGLINE

A-line
adrenaline
aline
bottom line
decline
discipline
gasoline
hold the line
in-line
landline
lay on the line
line
longline
masculine
on line
Pauline
storyline
tag line
underline
walking dragline

Synonyms and antonyms of dragline in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dragline» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRAGLINE

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

Translator English - Chinese

吊斗铲
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dragalina
570 millions of speakers

English

dragline
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्रॉलर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ساحبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

драглайн
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dragline
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dragline
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dragline
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dragline
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schürfkübelbagger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

引き綱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

드래그 라인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dragline
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lôi kéo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dragline
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ड्रॅगलाइन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yedek ip
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dragline
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skrobiowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

драглайн
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dragline
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκσκαφέας με συρόμενο κάδο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sleeptoustelsel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dragline
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dragline
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dragline

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRAGLINE»

The term «dragline» is normally little used and occupies the 110.130 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dragline

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QUOTES WITH «DRAGLINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dragline.
1
Cheryl Hayashi
Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAGLINE»

Discover the use of dragline in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dragline and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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SME Mining Engineering Handbook
Table 13.3.13. Approximate Cycles/Hour for Stripping Shovels and Draglines* Bucket or dipper size yd3 m3 Dragline Shovel * These figures are based on a 90° swing for a shovel and a 120° swing for a dragline, which approximates most field ...
2
Construction Equipment Guide
The capacity of the dragline depends on this increased load in the hoist line. To plan safely the 70% of hoist line capacity should be followed. The operating load capacity of a dragline depends a great deal on the material dug, the bucket used,  ...
David A. Day, Neal B. H. Benjamin, 1991
3
Giant Earthmovers : An Illustrated History
Harnischfeger launched its largest two-crawler dragline, the Model 2355, in 1981 . Much larger than the earlier machines of this type, the 2355 can swing an 18- yard bucket on a 160- foot boom. Its operating weight is 765 tons, and it uses the  ...
Keith Haddock
4
The Earthmover Encyclopedia
... walking draglines (Bucyrus and Marion) vied with each other to produce the biggest machines ever to roam on the earth. At the forefront of Bucyrus-Erie's dragline lineup in l 964 was the 2550- W, the largest dragline yet built by the company.
Keith Haddock
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Mining Science and Technology 1996
H. Mirabediny & E. Y. Baafi Department of Civil and Mining Engineering, University ofWollongong, N. S.W., Australia ABSTRACT: Dragline monitoring systems are gaining increasing acceptance as a reliable tool to collect detailed data on the ...
T.S. Golosinski, Guo Yuguang, 1996
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Mining Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 5th ...
China ABSTRACT: Dragline application is an advanced technique for opencast mining, which is integrated with mining, transportation and earth discharge. It can directly discharge the stripping earth into the earth stock yard. This technique ...
Yuehan Wang, Shirong Ge, Guangli Guo, 2004
7
Power Shovels : The World's Mightiest Mining and ...
Though these magnificent shovels were the best of their breed, the mining industry ultimately chose the walking dragline as the preferred method of reaching deeply buried coal seams. Even though the shovel and dragline had been allies ...
Eric C. Orlemann
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Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 2000
Necessary parameters for dragline selection Figure 6. Dragline selection For the combinations, the shovel models selected by TruckMac, number of shovel required and their production capacities are given below. The user can select any kind ...
T.N. Michalakopoulos, G.N. Panagiotou, 2000
9
Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 1995
Another project examines improved methods for the analysis of the dragline monitor data. These two projects are funded by research grants from Pacific Coal Pty Ltd. Another project is concerned with mathematical modelling of the excavation ...
J. Hadjigeorgiou, A.K. Mehmotra, R. Poulin, 1995
10
Extracting the Science: A Century of Mining Research
The productivity of a Dragline mainly depends on the cycle time and payload. Cycle time includes fill, swing, dump, return and positioning time. There is no doubt that dig time is one of the most critical factors which is believed to be closely ...
Jürgen F. Brune, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRAGLINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dragline is used in the context of the following news items.
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Black Warrior Riverkeeper settles lawsuit over Shannon mine …
In this December 2012 file photo, the Drummond Co. moves a 20-story tall dragline crane, called Mr. Tom, about 17 miles from Brookwood to ... «AL.com, Jul 15»
2
An inside look at Caterpillar's MineStar technology
Terrain is a powerful tool that enables high precision management of drilling, dragline, grading and loading operations through the use of ... «Mining Global, Jul 15»
3
Mosaic to mine Duette farmland
A Bucyrus Erie 1570W dragline uncovers phosphate rock at the IMC Four Corners mine in northeastern Manatee County. The bucket can hold ... «Bradenton Herald, Jul 15»
4
Spiders can sail now, which is terrifying
The spiders also use their silk as an anchor or a dragline to hook onto floating objects and use them as a raft on their way to shore. «WLRN, Jul 15»
5
Learning from biology to accelerate discovery
When a spider creates its dragline, for example, it spins silk faster than when its constructing a web. The crystals comprising the silk are smaller ... «R & D Magazine, Jul 15»
6
Spiders Sail Kilometres Across Water To Colonise The World
Spider silk appears to act as a dragline, allowing water-stranded spiders to grab onto floating objects and make their way safely to shore. «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
7
Kaleidoscope: Final chance to see Beverly power plant in operation
... plant was special to many -- myself included — because it burned coal uncovered by the legendary Big Muskie, the all-time largest dragline. «Aurora Advocate, Jul 15»
8
Kraig Biocraft creates strongest spider silk fibre
Several samples of have also demonstrated elasticity above 38%, exceeding native dragline spider silk, proving more flexible than Monster Silk ... «just-style.com, Jul 15»
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Dragline that Tipped into a Pit is Back to Work Again
A dragline that tipped in a pit on the evening of June 16th is out and back to ... Falkirk Mine built a ramp for the dragline to pull itself back out. «KXNet.com, Jun 15»
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Creates Fiber That is Stronger Than …
Several samples of Dragon SilkTM also demonstrated elasticity above 38%, exceeding native dragline spider silk. This new material has ... «Nasdaq, Jun 15»

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