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Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
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Usage: not-comparable
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Antonyms: none provided
Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
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Usage: not-comparable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
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Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonym of catenary.
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Usage: not-comparable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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Synonyms: catenary
Antonyms: none provided
A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving 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.
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Synonyms: funicular railway, cliff railway
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relating to or operated by a cable
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a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: railway, railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system
From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. By surface analysis, funicul(us) + -ar.
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
въ̀жен
(vǎ̀žen)
— powered by a rope or cable
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Catalan:
funicular
— powered by a rope or cable
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Danish:
kabeldrevet
— powered by a rope or cable
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French:
funiculaire
— powered by a rope or cable
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Portuguese:
funicular
— powered by a rope or cable
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Turkish:
füniküler
— powered by a rope or cable
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Arabic:
سِكَّة حَدِيد مُعَلَّقَة
(sikkat ḥadīd muʕallaqa)
— rail transit system
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Arabic:
سِكَّة حَدِيد وَتَرِيَّة
(sikkat ḥadīd watariyya)
— rail transit system
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Armenian:
ֆունիկուլյոր
(funikulyor)
— rail transit system
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Basque:
funikular
— rail transit system
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Belarusian:
фуникулѐр
— rail transit system
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Bulgarian:
въ̀жена лѝния
(vǎ̀žena lìnija)
— rail transit system
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Bulgarian:
фуникуле́р
(funikulér)
— rail transit system
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Catalan:
funicular
— rail transit system
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Chinese Mandarin:
纜索鐵路 /缆索铁路
(lǎnsuǒ tiělù)
— rail transit system
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Chuvash:
фуникулёр
(funik̬uljor)
— rail transit system
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Czech:
pozemní lanovka
— rail transit system
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Danish:
kabelbane
— rail transit system
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Dutch:
funiculaire
— rail transit system
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Dutch:
kabelbaan
— rail transit system
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Dutch:
kabelspoorbaan
— rail transit system
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Esperanto:
funikularo
— rail transit system
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Finnish:
kiskoköysirata
— rail transit system
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Finnish:
funikulaari
— rail transit system
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French:
funiculaire
— rail transit system
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Georgian:
ფუნიკულიორი
(puniḳuliori)
— rail transit system
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German:
Standseilbahn
— rail transit system
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Hindi:
रज्जुरेल
(rajjurel)
— rail transit system
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Hungarian:
siklóvasút
— rail transit system
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Icelandic:
fjallatoglest
— rail transit system
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Italian:
funicolare
— rail transit system
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Japanese:
鋼索鉄道
(kōsaku tetsudō)
— rail transit system
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Japanese:
ケーブルカー
(kēburu-kā)
— rail transit system
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Korean:
강삭철도
(gangsakcheoldo)
— rail transit system
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Latvian:
funikulers
— rail transit system
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Latvian:
funikulieris
— rail transit system
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Ligurian:
funicolâre
— rail transit system
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Lithuanian:
funikulierius
— rail transit system
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Macedonian:
искачница
(iskačnica)
— rail transit system
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Norwegian Bokmål:
kabelbane
— rail transit system
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
kabelbane
— rail transit system
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Polish:
funikular
— rail transit system
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Portuguese:
funicular
— rail transit system
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Romanian:
funicular
— rail transit system
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Russian:
фуникулёр
(funikuljór)
— rail transit system
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Samogitian:
fonėkolierios
— rail transit system
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Serbo-Croatian:
успѝњача
— rail transit system
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Serbo-Croatian:
uspìnjača
— rail transit system
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Slovak:
pozemná lanovka
— rail transit system
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Slovene:
funikular
— rail transit system
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Slovene:
tirna vzpenjača
— rail transit system
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Spanish:
funicular
— rail transit system
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Swedish:
bergbana
— rail transit system
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Turkish:
füniküler
— rail transit system
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Ukrainian:
фунікуле́р
(funikulér)
— rail transit system