tramline
/ˈtramlʌɪn
/noun (usually tramlines)
1A railway track for a tramcar.In particular, they are concerned about a new tramline and suburban railway which is supposed to be completed in time for the event....
- Huge city blocks reached high into the sky and a tramline ran on tracks suspended forty feet in the air.
- It is a Thirties clockwork race game, in which two tin spaceships take turns to advance along a tramline track.
1.1 (tramlines) A pair of parallel lines, especially at the sides of a tennis court (enclosing the extra width used in doubles play) or at the sides or back of a badminton court.He levels at 30-30 with a fine second serve but goes break point down after he sends his cross-court forehand into the tramlines....
- But, like tennis, the court possesses tramlines, acting as boundaries, and a net, far higher at 150cm.
- My reach extended from the centre of the court to the tramlines of the neighbouring one but it also made everything wildly unstable.
1.2An inflexible principle or course of action: when choosing a job, do pupils simply follow academic tramlines?...
- Yet these are invaluable tramlines that can guide purposeful human action.
- It has assembled a group of journalists who subscribe to its outlook and who are expected to think independently and avoid party tramlines.
- But it's clear that such ‘dialogue’ is itself to be conducted within a set of tramlines.