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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



... who held all the cards—as wives do if they will only play them aright. She was not smiling, nor exultant, nor blatant over it, but triumph was in every line of her as she waited there, slender, lovely, and sartorially exquisite. From the tip of her shoe to the crown of her hat she ...
— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton
... the fundamental fear of ghosts and the consequent desire to propitiate them acquire an organised ritual in simple forms of ancestor-worship, such as the Rev. Mr. Turner describes among the people of Tanna (l.c. p. 88); and this line of development may be followed out until it attains its acme in the State-theology of China and the Kami-theology [26] of Japan. Each of these is essentially ancestor-worship, the ancestors being reckoned back through family groups, ...
— The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study - Essay #8 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley
... multicellular organisms unquestionably show themselves to be, yet when these properties are traced back to their simplest beginnings in the unicellular organisms, they may fairly be regarded as fundamentally identical with the properties of living cells in general. Thus viewed, no line of real demarcation can be drawn between growth and reproduction, even of the sexual kind. The one process is, so to speak, physiologically continuous with the other; and hence, so far as the pre-embryonic stage of life-history is concerned, ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes
... at her blankly, and as the minutes of silence between them lengthened Norma noticed his lips compress themselves into a thin, colourless line. But she returned his look bravely, and in her eyes there was something that told the man she ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris
... a distinction, even in Sonora, between Pedro Salazar, the citizen, and Pedro Salazar, of the Sonora police. The rurales might get busy. Nogales and the Arizona line were still a long ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert


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