Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: human chain
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noun
Any process in which something is passed along a chain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively
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noun
A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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History
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Across languages
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