English
Noun
line of contact (plural lines of contact)
- (military) The demarcation between two or more given armies, whether they are allied or belligerent.
- Synonym: contact line
2021 December 10, Luke Harding, “‘Nobody wants to be Putin’s slave’: on the Ukraine frontline as tensions rise”, in The Guardian[1]:Both sides face off along a fixed 250-mile “border”, or line of contact, which snakes across Ukraine’s Donbas region.
Translations
(military) the demarcation between two or more given armies, whether they are allied or belligerent
- Arabic: خَطّ اِتِّصَال m (ḵaṭṭ ittiṣāl), خَطّ الْاِتِّصَال m (ḵaṭṭ al-ittiṣāl) (definite), خَطّ تَمَاسّ m (ḵaṭṭ tamāss), خَطّ التَّمَاسّ m (ḵaṭṭ at-tamāss) (definite)
- Armenian: շփման գիծ (špʻman gic)
- Azerbaijani: təmas xətti
- Belarusian: лі́нія судакрана́ння f (línija sudakranánnja), лі́нія судакрана́ньня f (línija sudakranánʹnja), лі́нія сутыкне́ння f (línija sutyknjénnja), лі́нія сутыкне́ньня f (línija sutyknjénʹnja)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 接觸線 / 接触线 (jiēchùxiàn)
- Finnish: kontaktilinja
- French: ligne de contact (fr) f
- Georgian: კონტაქტის ხაზი (ḳonṭakṭis xazi)
- German: Kontaktlinie f
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: linea di contatto f
- Japanese: 接触線 (せっしょくせん, sesshokusen)
- Korean: 접촉선(接觸線) (jeopchokseon)
- Polish: linia kontaktu f
- Portuguese: linha de contato f
- Romanian: linie de contact f
- Russian: ли́ния соприкоснове́ния f (línija soprikosnovénija)
- Spanish: línea de contacto f
- Turkish: temas hattı
- Ukrainian: лі́нія зі́ткнення f (línija zítknennja)
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