"zipline" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈzɪpˌlaɪn/ Forms: ziplines [plural]
Etymology: zip + line Etymology templates: {{compound|en|zip|line}} zip + line Head templates: {{en-noun}} zipline (plural ziplines)
  1. A pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline, designed to enable a user to travel from one point to another by means of gravity. Synonyms: aerial ropeslide, aerial runway, flying fox, Tyrolean runway, zip-wire Translations (pulley suspended on a cable): foefieslaaid (Afrikaans), corriola [feminine] (Catalan), tirolina [feminine] (Catalan), 滑索 (Chinese Mandarin), lanová skluzavka [feminine] (Czech), tirola kablo (Esperanto), supertera kablo (Esperanto), köysirata (Finnish), tyrolienne (French), Seilrutsche [feminine] (German), Tirolienne [Switzerland, feminine] (German), אוֹמֶגָה (oméga) [feminine] (Hebrew), drótkötélpálya (Hungarian), csúszópálya (Hungarian), teleferica [feminine] (Italian), ジップライン (Japanese), жичена спушталка (žičena spuštalka) [feminine] (Macedonian), retirere (Maori), tyrolka [feminine] (Polish), tirolesa [feminine] (Portuguese), žična drča (Slovene), tirolska žičnica (Slovene), vrvna žičnica [feminine] (Slovene), tirolina [feminine] (Spanish), linbana [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-zipline-en-noun-jknMClkd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 2 6 Disambiguation of 'pulley suspended on a cable': 92 8
  2. A trip on a zipline.
    Sense id: en-zipline-en-noun-SaH64Qr~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: zip-line, zip line Derived forms: zipliner, ziplining

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈzɪpˌlaɪn/ Forms: ziplines [present, singular, third-person], ziplining [participle, present], ziplined [participle, past], ziplined [past]
Etymology: zip + line Etymology templates: {{compound|en|zip|line}} zip + line Head templates: {{en-verb}} zipline (third-person singular simple present ziplines, present participle ziplining, simple past and past participle ziplined)
  1. To travel by zipline.
    Sense id: en-zipline-en-verb-dtzXHyTP
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: zip-line, zip line

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "zip-line"
    },
    {
      "word": "zip line"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zipline"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.