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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a rope or cord.
  2. adj. Operated or moved by a cable.
  3. adj. Of, relating to, or constituting a funiculus.
  4. n. A cable railway on a steep incline, especially such a railway with simultaneously ascending and descending cars counterbalancing one another.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the character of a funicle; constituting a funiculus; relating to the hypothesis of a funiculus, or self-contracting ether.
  2. In anatomy, relating or pertaining to the funis umbilicalis: as, the funicular process of the peritoneum.
  3. n. The funicular polygon.
  4. In anatomy: Resembling a cord or rope: a term used in describing the arrangement of muscle- or nerve-fibers.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
  2. adj. botany Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
  3. n. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
  2. adj. Dependent on the tension of a cord.
  3. adj. (Anat.) Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to or operated by a cable
  2. n. a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars

Etymologies

  1. From Latin fūniculus ("cord"), diminutive from fūnis ("cord") + -culus. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The clue had the word funicular on it, besides, Amazing Racers have been on them a few times before.”

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  • “I learned that the funicular is the oldest continuously operating one in the United States, originally built by German immigrants who modeled it after ones in their homeland.”

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  • “We decided this was the perfect opportunity to finally ride the Bergbahn aka funicular railway to the top of the Koenigstuhl, or "King's Chair", the highest hill near Heidelberg.”

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  • “They know that the funicular is the only way to get to Aiglemont, and they will have anticipated every possible covert and forced use of it to gain access to the Château.”

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  • “That's why it's called a funicular, in my opinion.”

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  • “To get to the lodge he was staying in, Jeff and I had to park at the bottom of a ski slope and ride up on this crazy contraption called a funicular-basically a posh leather bound trolley that slides up the side of a hill.”

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  • “The catenary is a physical curve, sometimes identified as the funicular curve, rather than a formally geometric curve, a physical curve which lies at the center of the most crucial foundations of modern European physical science, including such outcomes as the Leibniz-Jean Bernouilli development of the crucial physical principle of a universal physical principle of least action.”

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  • “They had come up by the funicular, meaning to walk next morning down to Chambéry, but whether they could do so or not depended on the weather.”

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  • “After a decades-long struggle to win approval for a 121-acre gated community of 118 homes and a resort on a commanding bluff in Dana Point, developers made extraordinary concessions for public access, including four access points and an inclined railway called a "funicular" that shuttles visitors to a secluded beach known as the Strand.”

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  • “They you can opt to walk the 3 hours or so up there or take the 'funicular' railway.”

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  1. railway line
  1. railway
  1. railroad line
  1. railroad
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  1. counterbalance
  2. narrow gauge
  3. north-and-south
  4. taste
  1. long-winged
  2. bodies
  3. neo-gothic
  4. star-bespangled
  1. two-hundred-pound
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  4. company-owned
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  1. funic
  1. funiliform
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  1. node
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    A railway with very particular boats
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  • sonofgroucho Example of a funicular railway in Capri, Italy. Apr 20, 2007

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