funicular
[fyoo-nik-yuh-ler]
- of or relating to a rope or cord, or its tension.
- worked by a rope or the like.
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Origin of funicular
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Examples from the Web for funicular
Contemporary Examples
What was the thinking behind using models for the funicular that runs up to the hotel—and for the first shots of the hotel itself?
Historical Examples
They start along the terrace toward the station of the funicular railway.
A Book of BurlesquesH. L. Mencken
Can't you get aboard the funicular yourself and start your journey?
A Big TemptationL. T. Meade
This is the origin of the names “link-polygon” and “funicular” (cf. 2).
The case of the funicular polygon will be of use to us later.
They insisted on bringing us down early for the funicular, and here are your bags.
Irma in ItalyHelen Leah Reed
funicular
- Also called: funicular railway a railway up the side of a mountain, consisting of a counterbalanced car sat either end of a cable passing round a driving wheel at the summit
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- relating to or operated by a rope, cable, etc
- of or relating to a funicle
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Word Origin and History for funicular
adj.
1660s, from Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis "a cord, rope."
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