Line

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Noun

Line (plural Lines)
  1. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
    1. (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
    2. (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
    3. (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
    4. (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
    5. (geography, ‘the line’ or ‘equinoctial line’) The equator.
      to cross the line
    6. (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
    7. (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
  2. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
    1. (firefighting) A hose.
  3. Direction, path.
    the line of sight or the line of vision
  4. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
  5. A letter, a written form of communication.
    Drop me a line.
  6. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
  7. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
  8. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  9. That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
    The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yes. I have a goodly heritage. — Ps. xvi. 6
  10. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  11. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  12. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. #: The line forms on the right.
    There is a line of houses.
  13. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
  14. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  15. A small amount of text. Specifically:
    1. a written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
      The answer to the comprehension question can be found in the third line of the accompanying text.
    2. a verse (in poetry).
    3. a sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
    4. a lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
  16. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. # The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
  17. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  18. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  19. A measure of length:
    1. equal to one twelfth of an inch.
    2. equal to one fortieth of an inch.
  20. (historical) Alternative name for a maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  21. (baseball, slang, 1800s, ‘the line’) The batter’s box.
  22. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  23. Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
  24. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).

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Verb

Line (third-person singular simple present Lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

  1. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
    to line troops
  2. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
  3. To form a line along.
  4. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
    to line a copy book
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  6. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
    to line out a hymn
  7. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  8. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
  9. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  10. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  11. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

Adjectives for Line

fine; skirmish; untutored; soft; flowing; harmonious; never-ceasing; demolished; graceful; melodic; undulating; depending; transparent; rippling; continuous; scientific; collateral; advancing; extended; capricious; oblique; sounding; intertwisted; impromptu; important; imaginary; beautiful; impregnable; policy; gleaming; opposing; exiled; converging; occasional; legitimate; feeling; half-illegible; pencil-traced; tighter; sensuous; emphatic; inspiring; minute; fleeting; never-varying; fringing; sharpened; youthful; subtle; insuperable; agitated; endless; divergent; special; curving; dainty; never-relaxing; flexible; roaring; sensitive; equinoctial; curling; flimsy; absolute; straight; feudal; suave; dignified; body-traced; crisp; wide; well-proportioned; smart; smart-draping; distinguished; tapering; easy; exclusive; distinctive; vulnerable; ravaged; sonorous; unbroken; monastery; bread; uneven; ragged; cramped; parallel (pi); eccentric; sleepless; irregular; pathetic; wabbling; quivering; ensuing; paternal; wavering; decided; eastward; fringing; fortified; etched; shapely; style; constricting; exterior; remotest; rent; successive (pi) ; slim; stirring; insolent; decisive; mystic; long; urbane; broad; tedious; swagger; classic; apostolic; complete; swinging; transcontinental; surging; stunning; weight-bearing; traditional; characteristic; honied; poetic; circumvallating; radial; moral; interconnecting; natural; jeweled; slender; wanton; rambling; trim; immortal; smart-tailored; ever-lengthening; stubborn; sleek; sun-tempting; back; dauntless; luxuriant; unreturning; fantastic; momentous; placid; solemn; noiseless; inter-tangled; infinitesimal; oblique; shoddy; eloquent; narrative; witty; preparatory; hypothetical; impassioned; unpunctuated; inimitable; telegraphic; harsh; effective; circling; competing; bristling; faint; intrenched; brilliant; vanquished; horizontal; cabalistic; sinuous; preconcerted; completed; well-defined; stateliest; unfading; glittering; never-ending; allied; quaint; experimental; nodal; prosaic; radiating (pi); trimmer; industrial; intellectual; heroic improvised; illustrious; admirable; hard grim; humble; imitative; ghostly; foul swelling; touching; foolish; connecting; imperiled; unpol¬ished; bobbing; unrelated; brief; plumb; slimmer; compact; simple; unconquered; vocal; holy; therapeutic; theoretic; charging; ferocious; thought-tracked; genealogical; sublime; fleshly; surging; dividing.

Verbs for Line

alternate—s; blur—; delineate—; derive— from; eradicate—; extend—; foul—; fracture—; intersect—; overrun—; scale—; thread—; trace—; warp—; wipe out—s; — bounds; — coincide; —deviates; —digress¬es; —dips; —grades; —graduates; —limits; —parallels; —progresses; —radiate from; —refracts; —represents; —straggles; — swerves; —veers; —verges; —wobbles.

Thesaurus

abut, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, aceldama, acknowledgment, acquiescence, acquire, action, activity, adaptation, adaption, adjoin, adjustment, advance guard, affiliation, aftermath, agreement, aim, air, air lane, airhead, algorithm, align, aligned, allocate, allot, alto, anagnorisis, ancestry, angle, animal kingdom, answer, antistrophe, apparentation, apportion, approach, architectonics, architecture, area, argosy, argument, aria, arrange, arrange for, arrangement, array, art, articulation, assemble, assortment, atmosphere, attack, autarky, autolithograph, avant-garde, azimuth, background, bag, balance, band, bank, bar, bar line, baritone, bass, basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, be a printmaker, beachhead, bearing, beat, befringe, belt, bent, billet, bimetallism, bind, birth, blarney, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, block in, block out, blood, bloodline, blotch, book, border, border line, borderline, bottoms, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, brace, braid, brail, branch, brand, break boundary, breakoff point, breed, bridgehead, brief, brood, brushwork, burden, burr, business, business letter, butt, buzz, cable, cable railway, calling, canto, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, caravan, card, career, career building, careerism, carve, cast, catalog goods, catastrophe, catena, catenation, cavalcade, ceil, ceiling, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chalk, chalk out, chalk up, character, characterization, check, check off, chisel, chiseling, chit, chorus, cicatrize, circuit, circumscription, clan, class, clue, co-ax, coaxial cable, cog railway, collocate, color, column, combat area, combat zone, coming after, commodities, common ancestry, communicate, communication, compass, compliance, complication, compose, composition, con, concatenation, concentric cable, conclusion, condensation trail, confine, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, connection, consanguinity, consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, consistency, consumer goods, consumer items, continuation, continuity, continuo, continuum, contour, contract for, contrail, contralto, contrivance, conventionality, coordinate, cord, correspondence, cortege, couplet, course, cover, craft, crease, creed, cribble, crinkle, crocodile, cross-hatching, crosshatch, cup of tea, current, cut, cutoff, cutoff point, cycle, dapple, dash, data, deadline, deal, deal out, define, degree, delimit, delimitation, delineate, delineation, demarcate, demarcation, deme, demitint, denomination, denouement, derivation, descant, descendant, descent, description, design, designation, determinant, develop, development, device, diagonal, dig up, direct line, direction, direction line, discolor, dispatch, dispose, distaff side, distich, distribute, division line, dot, dotted line, draft, draftsmanship, dress parade, drift, drone, dynasty, echelon, economic self-sufficiency, edge, edging, effect, effects, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, employ, employment, enchase, end, endless belt, endless round, enemy line, enframe, engage, engrave, engravement, engraving, envoi, episode, epistle, epode, etch, etching, extension, extraction, extremity, fable, face, falling action, family, farthest outpost, fashion, favor, feather, feeder, feeder line, female line, field, field of battle, field of blood, figuration, figure, figured bass, filament, file, filiation, fill, finish, firing line, first line, fix, fleck, fleet, flexibility, flight path, floor, flotilla, flyover, folk, following, forefront, form, form a line, formation, formulate, forte, frame, freckle, free enterprise, free trade, fringe, front, front line, front rank, front-runner, frontier, funeral, fur, furrow, game, gamut, gash, gem-engraving, genealogy, genre, gens, genus, get hold of, get in line, gimmick, glacial movement, glass-cutting, glyptic, goods, goods for sale, governmentalism, gradation, graft, grain, grave, graving, gravity-operated railway, groove, ground bass, grouping, guiding principles, guise, hachure, hairline, half tint, handicraft, harmony, hatch, hatching, hawser, heading, hedge, heir, helmsmanship, hem, heptastich, heritage, hexastich, high-water mark, hint, hire, horse railway, house, hum, ilk, impress, imprint, in a row, in accord, in agreement, in control, in harmony, in line, in step, incident, incise, incision, inclination, information, inlay, inscribe, inscript, inscription, interface, interline, inventory, itinerary, job, job lot, join, junction, keeping, kidney, killing ground, kin, kind, label, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, landing beach, lap, lay, lead, ledger line, letter, lie, lifework, ligament, ligation, ligature, light railroad, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line of action, line of battle, line of business, line of demarcation, line of descent, line of direction, line of goods, line of march, line of work, line up, lineage, lineation, lined up, lines, lining, list, lithograph, load, local color, localism, logical sequence, long suit, lot, low-water mark, lower limit, mail-order goods, main current, main interest, main line, mainstream, make, make a mark, make prints, male line, malleability, managed currency, manner, manner of working, march, march past, marge, margin, marginate, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, marshal, matriclan, means, measure, melodia, melodic line, melody, merchandise, merchant fleet, merchant navy, message, mete, method, methodology, metier, metro, mission, missive, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, mold, monorail, monostich, monotone, mood, motif, motion, motorcade, mottle, movement, mule train, mystery, mythos, nation, nature, navigation, navy, neighbor, nexus, nick, noninterference, nonintervention, notch, note, nullification, number, obedience, oblique, observance, obtain, occupation, octastich, octave, octet, offerings, offspring, orbit, order, order of succession, ordinate, organize, orientation, orthodoxy, ottava rima, outguard, outline, outpost, pack, pack train, pad, painterliness, parade, parcel out, parentage, part, party line, party principle, passage, path, patriclan, pencil, pendulum, pentastich, people, pepper, periodicity, peripeteia, perspective, persuasion, pet subject, phratry, phyle, phylum, piloting, pioneer, piste, pitch, place, plain chant, plain song, plan, plan of action, planned economy, plant kingdom, platform, plenum, pliancy, plot, plumb, point, policy, polity, pomp, position, position paper, postcard, posteriority, posterity, postposition, powder train, practice, precursor, prepare, price supports, prick, prick song, primrose path, principles, print, private line, procedure, proceeding, process, procession, profession, profile, program, progression, prolongation, promenade, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, punch, punctuate, puncture, purfle, purl, pursuit, put in place, quarter, quatrain, queue, queue up, race, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, racket, rail, rail line, railhead, railroad, railway, rally, range, rank, ready, ready for, recognition, reconcilement, reconciliation, recurrence, refrain, regiment, reply, rescript, reticulation, review, rhyme royal, riddle, rim, rising action, road, roadbed, roadway, role, rope, rotation, rough in, rough out, round, route, routine, row, rule, run, sales pitch, scale, scar, scarify, scent, scheme, score, scoring, scotch, scout, scrape, scratch, scratching, script, sculpture, sea lane, seal, seam, seat of war, secondary plot, sectionalism, secure, seed, sell out, separatrix, sept, septet, sequel, sequence, series, sestet, set, set off, set out, set up, sextet, shading, shadow, shambles, shape, shipping, ships, shortcut, side, sideline, sides, sidetrack, siding, sign up, signs, silhouette, single file, sketch, skimmington, skirt, slant, slash, slashing, solidus, solo, solo part, song, song and dance, soprano, soprano part, sort, space, spear side, spearhead, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, species, speck, speckle, spectrum, speech, spiel, spindle side, splotch, spoor, spot, spun yarn, staff, stain, stamp, stanza, staples, start, starting line, starting point, stave, steerage, steering, stem, stigmatize, stipple, stippling, stirps, stock, stock-in-trade, story, straight, straighten, strain, strand, strategy, streak, streaking, stream, street railway, streetcar line, striate, striation, strictness, string, string out, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, strong point, strophe, structure, stuff, style, subject, subjunction, sublineation, subplot, subway, succession, successiveness, successor, suffixation, swath, swing, switch, switchback, sword side, syllable, system, tack, tactics, tailback, target date, tattoo, technicality, technique, telegraph cable, telegraph line, telephone, telephone line, tendency, tendon, tenor, tercet, term, terminal, terminal date, terminus, terza rima, tetrastich, the drill, the front, the general tendency, the how, the like of, the likes of, the main course, the way of, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, thematic development, theme, thing, thong, thorough bass, thread, threshold, tick, tick off, tier, time allotment, time spirit, tint, tone, tonnage, tool, tooling, topic, totem, touch, tour, trace, traces, track, trade, trail, train, traject, trajectory, trajet, tram, tramline, treatment, treble, trend, trestle, tribe, trim, triplet, tristich, trolley line, true, trunk, trunk line, tube, tune, turnout, twine, twist, type, type-cutting, uncover, under control, underground, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, undersong, uniformity, up for, upper limit, values, van, vanguard, vapor trail, variety, vendibles, verge, verse, virgule, vocation, voice part, wad, wainscot, wake, walk, walk of life, wares, way, weakness, whaling fleet, windrow, wire, wire line, wise, word, words, work, wrinkle, yarn, zone of communications

Pronunciation

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