Crossword-Solution: RECTILINEAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Rectilinear | a. | Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
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greedy person
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Sentences with RECTILINEAR (5)
The twice‐born look down upon the rectilinear consciousness of life of the once‐born as being “mere morality,” and not properly religion.
Creatures of forest and mead, Earth’s essays in being, all kinds Bound by the navel-knot to the Mother, never astray, They in the ear upon ground will pour their intuitive minds, Cut man’s tangles for Earth’s first broad rectilinear way: Admonishing loftier reaches, the rich adventurous shoots, Pushes of tentative curves, embryonic upwreathings in air; Not always the sprouts of Earth’s root-Laws preserving her brutes; Oft but our primitive hungers licentious in fine and fair.
The white, rectilinear ribbon of roadway was spotted with approaching groups that on the horizon line looked like a file of ants.
Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes, and plane rectilinear figures are made up of triangles.
Newton constructed such a diagram, and, measuring the amount of the moon's departure from a tangential rectilinear course in one minute, determined this to be, by his calculation, thirteen feet.
Quotes with RECTILINEAR (3)
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal, vziz.>the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal, viz.> the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached th…
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2004–2013).