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- adjective Woven with alternating parallel threads of two colours.
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Examples
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"Blue end-on-end and white poplins...the basics, really."
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The research station's outer walls are constructed from a series of end-on-end triangles, forming diamonds, and the ants amass a corresponding array of reflective diamonds that they build up around the outpost, reflecting light inward to overheat their human enemies.
Phase IV Ed Howard 2008
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The research station's outer walls are constructed from a series of end-on-end triangles, forming diamonds, and the ants amass a corresponding array of reflective diamonds that they build up around the outpost, reflecting light inward to overheat their human enemies.
Archive 2008-07-01 Ed Howard 2008
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I am sure that there is a special ring of hell for the media: The survivor stories end-on-end for the titillation of the public.
Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 2005
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I am sure that there is a special ring of hell for the media: The survivor stories end-on-end for the titillation of the public.
Archives de la Stan 2005
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They erect two telephone poles on the lakeshore, spliced together end-on-end using coils of heavy rope.
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They erect two telephone poles on the lakeshore, spliced together end-on-end using coils of heavy rope.
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Don't even think of lining up 13.9 trillion dollar bills end-on-end in order to create some kind of visual metaphor for our national debt.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Then, with a transporter vehicle that's also remotely operated, we would take it underground and place it end-on-end, lying down in our repository drifts.
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Paterson said when stacked end-on-end, they are taller than the Empire State Building.
Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal 2009
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