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A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor water or milk sugar and the juice of lemon with spice or mint specifically named from the kind of spirit used as rum punch claret punch champagne punch etc...
punch line
The final sentence phrase or word in a joke or humorous story that is unexpected and produces the humorous effect the point of a joke...
punch list
punch list a list of items that have not been completed at the time of the final walk through of a newly constructed home. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Center punch
A punch for making indentations or dots in a piece of work as for suspension between lathe centers etc...
Load-line
Load-line, a line painted on the sides of a ship to show how far up the sides the water will rise when the ship is loaded. The (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 9), substituted a 'maximum load-line in salt water, to which it should be lawful to load a ship,' i.e., a compulsory load-line, for a load-line indicating a point beyond which the owner intended that it should not be loaded, as prescribed by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, i.e., an optional load-line; and this provision of the Act of 1890 was re-enacted by s. 437 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and see also s. 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906. Both these sections have now been repealed by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), and ss. 43 to 46 now prescribed the law.Under the (English) M.S. Act, 1894, s. 442, sub-mergence beyond the load-line by reason of weather was held to be an offence, Radcliffe v. Brickwell, (1927) 2...
Electric line
Electric line, 'electric line' means any line which is used for carrying electricity for any purpose and includes:-(a) any support for any such line, that is to say, any structure, tower, pole or other thing in, on, by or from which any such line is, or may be, supported, carried or suspended; and(b) any apparatus connected to any such line for the purpose of carrying electricity. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(20)]...
Dedicated transmission lines
Dedicated transmission lines, 'dedicated trans-mission lines' means any electric supply-line for point to point transmission which are required for the purpose of connecting electric lines or electric plants of a captive generating plant referred to in, s. 9 or generating station referred to in, s. 10 to any transmission lines or sub-stations or generating stations or the load center, as the case may be. [Electricity Act, (36 of 2003), s. 2(16)]...
Line
Line, succession of relations (see INHERITANCE); boundary; the twelfth part of an inch.The word 'line' in the expression 'telegraph line' connotes the existence of a defined channel of communication which has got a physical existence, Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra, AIR 1962 SC 159 (161): (1962) 3 SCR 146.Means any wire, cable, tube, pipe, insulator, conductor or other similar thing (including its casing or coating) which is designed or adapted for use in carrying electricity and includes any line which surrounds or supports, or is surrounded or supported by or is installed in close proximity to, or is supported, carried or suspended in association with, any such line. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(40)]...
chalk line
a string impregnated with powdered chalk used in construction to mark a straight line on a surface such as a wall The string is held taut on the surface between the two end points of the line to be made the center of the line is drawn away from the surface and the string is released and snapped against the surface leaving a line of chalk in the desired location...
Gunters line
A logarithmic line on Gunters scale used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers called also line of lines and line of numbers...
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