"cliff lift" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cliff lifts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514",
          "text": "A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as \"cliff lifts,\" which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A funicular that runs between the top and the bottom of a cliff, usually at a seaside location."
      ],
      "id": "en-cliff_lift-en-noun-ipOx4Rgn",
      "links": [
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          "transport",
          "transport"
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        [
          "funicular",
          "funicular"
        ],
        [
          "cliff",
          "cliff"
        ],
        [
          "seaside",
          "seaside"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transport, UK) A funicular that runs between the top and the bottom of a cliff, usually at a seaside location."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cliff railway"
        }
      ],
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        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "transport"
      ]
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vertical lift or elevator serving the same purpose at some locations."
      ],
      "id": "en-cliff_lift-en-noun-ywN1M6U1",
      "links": [
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          "elevator",
          "elevator"
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      ]
    }
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  "word": "cliff lift"
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cliff lifts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Transport"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514",
          "text": "A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as \"cliff lifts,\" which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A funicular that runs between the top and the bottom of a cliff, usually at a seaside location."
      ],
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        [
          "transport",
          "transport"
        ],
        [
          "funicular",
          "funicular"
        ],
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          "cliff"
        ],
        [
          "seaside",
          "seaside"
        ]
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        "(transport, UK) A funicular that runs between the top and the bottom of a cliff, usually at a seaside location."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cliff railway"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "transport"
      ]
    },
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        "A vertical lift or elevator serving the same purpose at some locations."
      ],
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          "elevator",
          "elevator"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cliff lift"
}