Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 100 km (60 mi) long, of northern England flowing eastward to the North Sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
tine , tine, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Scot. To lose.
- noun obsolete Anxiety; tine.
- intransitive verb obsolete To become lost; to perish.
- noun (Zoöl.) A prong or point of an antler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A river in the county of
Tyne and Wear in north eastEngland . The city ofNewcastle upon Tyne is found upon its northern bank andGateshead is found upon its southern bank.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea
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Examples
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Except that Newcastle upon Tyne is not a Labour council.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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Public transport users in Tyne and Wear may soon be able to use their mobile phone as a bus or train ticket. posted by bidlab at
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Except that Newcastle upon Tyne is not a Labour council.
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Public transport users in Tyne and Wear may soon be able to use their mobile phone as a bus or train ticket. posted by bidlab at
SMS tickets 2005
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At Newcastle on Tyne, the small rivulet called the Tyne, once two or three feet deep, has been excavated for many miles and changed into a mighty river accommodating ships drawing thirty feet.
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One of the most curious sights upon the Tyne is the fleet of hundreds of these black-sailed, black-hulled keels, bringing down at each tide their black cargoes for the ships at anchor in the deep water at Shields and other parts of the river below Newcastle.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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Out of this smoke-cloud rose tall steeples; and it was discernible that the town stretched widely over an uneven surface, on the banks of the Tyne, which is navigable up hither ten miles from the sea for pretty large vessels.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Out of this smoke-cloud rose tall steeples; and it was discernible that the town stretched widely over an uneven surface, on the banks of the Tyne, which is navigable up hither ten miles from the sea for pretty large vessels.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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'Town' is Newcastle upon Tyne, which is a small city in the North
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The scale of some, such as Tyne Cot, is almost overwhelming and it is hard to avoid shedding a tear or two.
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