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Date line   /deɪt laɪn/   Listen
Date line

noun
1.
An imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian.  Synonyms: dateline, International Date Line.






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"Date line" Quotes from Famous Books



... you call that thing?" Tomaso pointed a slender, brown finger at a circular heading, whereon a pink aeroplane did a "nose dive" toward the date line through ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower

... of his conclusion, if it were needed, came the next morning in a copy of the New York Monitor, Churchill's paper, which contained on its front page a long, double-leaded despatch, under a Milwaukee date line. It was Hobart who brought it in to Mr. Grayson and his little ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... city's oldest families, that a family breach was healed at the death of our sister, or the general points of whatever it is that makes us interesting to the paper's circulation. We are likely to have a date line and a brief despatch from Rome, or Savannah, or wherever we happen to be when we shuffle off, stating that we have done so. This to be followed by a "shirt-tail dash." Then begins a beautifully dispassionate and highly dignified recital of the salient facts ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday



Words linked to "Date line" :   line of longitude, dateline, meridian



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