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Line   /laɪn/   Listen
Line

noun
1.
A formation of people or things one beside another.  "They were arrayed in line of battle" , "The cast stood in line for the curtain call"
2.
A mark that is long relative to its width.
3.
A formation of people or things one behind another.  "You must wait in a long line at the checkout counter"
4.
A length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point.
5.
Text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen.  "There are six lines in every stanza"
6.
A single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum.
7.
A fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops).
8.
A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning.  Synonyms: argument, argumentation, line of reasoning, logical argument.
9.
A conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power.  Synonyms: cable, transmission line.
10.
A connected series of events or actions or developments.  Synonym: course.  "Historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
11.
A spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent.
12.
A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.  Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, seam, wrinkle.  "Ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
13.
A pipe used to transport liquids or gases.  Synonym: pipeline.
14.
The road consisting of railroad track and roadbed.  Synonyms: rail line, railway line.
15.
A telephone connection.  Synonyms: phone line, subscriber line, telephone circuit, telephone line.
16.
Acting in conformity.  "He got out of line" , "Toe the line"
17.
The descendants of one individual.  Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock.
18.
Something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible.
19.
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.  Synonyms: business, job, line of work, occupation.
20.
In games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area.
21.
(often plural) a means of communication or access.  Synonyms: channel, communication channel.  "Lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
22.
A particular kind of product or merchandise.  Synonyms: business line, line of business, line of merchandise, line of products, product line.
23.
A commercial organization serving as a common carrier.
24.
Space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising.  Synonym: agate line.
25.
The maximum credit that a customer is allowed.  Synonyms: bank line, credit line, line of credit, personal credit line, personal line of credit.
26.
A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.  Synonyms: air, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune.
27.
Persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress.  "He has a smooth line but I didn't fall for it" , "That salesman must have practiced his fast line of talk"
28.
A short personal letter.  Synonyms: billet, note, short letter.
29.
A conceptual separation or distinction.  Synonyms: contrast, demarcation, dividing line.
30.
Mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it.  Synonyms: assembly line, production line.
verb
(past & past part. lined; pres. part. lining)
1.
Be in line with; form a line along.  Synonym: run along.
2.
Cover the interior of.  "Line a chimney"
3.
Make a mark or lines on a surface.  Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, trace.  "Trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
4.
Mark with lines.
5.
Fill plentifully.
6.
Reinforce with fabric.



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"Line" Quotes from Famous Books



... their works ye shall know them," then no man can say that the men referred to have been conspicuous on the firing line in defense of assaulted wild life. In their hearts, we know that in an academic way the naturalists of America do care about wild-life slaughter, and the extermination of species; and we also know that perhaps fifty American zoologists have at times taken ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday
... a clump of pine trees in the middle of the wood, we lay down to confer. Then it was I learned, for the first time, something of the line of action the police ...
— The Four Faces - A Mystery • William le Queux
... Testament, the Talmud, and the few other traditions and records yet in existence, are very diverse and sometimes contradictory. They agreed in ardently looking for an earthly sovereign in the Messiah, one who would rise up in the line of David and by the power of Jehovah deliver his people, punish their enemies, subdue the world to his sceptre, and reign with Divine auspices of beneficence and splendor. They also expected that then a portion of the ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... saying to herself was that in another minute he and she would be alone. Nothing else in the world mattered very much. Every bit of her was conscious of it as the supreme event. Her fingers pressed it upon the flowers. It was in her eyes as much as in her heart. He went on casting his line, moving from stone to stone, dropping down the bank, ascending it, as if the hooking of a trout was something to him. Was he feeling to his marrow that as soon as those other two figures rounded the bend in the stream he and she would have the world to themselves? ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... round tower (its sole relic) for the wonder of modern times. Fifty years since, I remember, you entered the precinct through a lowering archway that opened into a gloomy passage—Inner Temple Lane. On the east side rose the church; and on the west was a dark line of chambers, since pulled down and rebuilt, and now called Johnson's Buildings. At some distance westward was an open court, in which was a sun-dial, and, in the midst, a solitary fountain, that sent its silvery voice into the air ...
— Charles Lamb • Barry Cornwall


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