Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan ("to cease from, desist, lose, yield up"), from Proto-Germanic *linnanan (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne ("to stop, rest"), Swedish dialectal linna ("to pause, rest"), Icelandic linna ("to stop, rest"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Every word valuable, every word classic, incisive paragraphs, chapters exquisite, beautiful Yiziqianjin lin, ringing, sharp pen of the document took dreams”
“Bottom lin is that a bullet with a high BC will keep its velocity better than one with a low BC.”
“It would destroy everything he stands for and want for this country. lin lin”
“Please give me a tag lin, or punch line for my beauty parlour which is named "angel" with a word girl in the line?”
“please give me a tag lin, or punch line for my beauty parlour which is named "angel" with a word girl in the line?”
“And the HTML in the tag lin would look like this: tagname”
“The Emperor is lodged in the Kxeiai lin, which is in the centre of the city, like a kind of citadel, surroaudcd by high wails, — «”
“This week starting Monday, a new show built around Johnson's songs, Trav'lin ', promises to be a highlight of the ongoing New York Musical Theater Festival, which continues through Oct. 17.”
“After a few public readings at the York Theater, "Trav'lin '" will play six performances this week at the TBG Theater on West 36th Street.”
“Trav'lin '" is the brainchild of producer-playwright Gary Holmes, who, as a teenager, was a friend to Johnson in the last decade of the songwriter's life.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lin’.
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EN - 3-letter words of the pattern CVC
With the exception of abbreviations and mosaic words all types of words (proper names, past tense of verbs, etc.) are allowed.
for, was, not, his, but, has, had, can, her, him, new, now and 339 more...
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goodkitten's list
there is going to be a lot of words...
flammivomous, pep, electrolyzation, research, constrain, why, refrigerator, invisible, windblown, curate's egg, echoism, drumble and 103 more...
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Conlangs and Fantasy Languages
Names of constructed languages (excluding Tolkien's, which get a list of their own) and languages presented only in works of fiction. I'm going to be flexible about what gets listed and include bot...
esperanto, volapük, idiom neutral, latino sine flexione, ido, occidental, interlingue, interlingua, novial, glosa, adjuvilo, afrihili and 223 more...
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Written on Water
An eclectic list of words pertaining to and describing water.
"...I am the faithful husband of the rain,
I love the water of wells and springs
and the taste of roofs in the...water, rain, cistern, thirst, dead-water, eddy-water, surge, flood, ebb, fluid, flow, liquor amnii and 202 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Thats a word?!
Unusual jumbles of letters that are actually words
asci, lin, avast, presumptuousness, drumble, repudiate, anile, feal, dawt, haver, apery, hoary and 10 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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Spam Names
Interesting words that came to me in spam emails in the "From" field. Read in pairs by order added, add the initial of your choice, and you'll get a list of "names."
menominee, burbled, abrasives, barrister, unfortunates, strolls, appareled, uncles, removal, elusive, significance, described and 180 more...
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limnolia
lakes, ponds, etc.
vernal pool, spring, pond, lake, pool, basin, swimming hole, lagoon, liman, well, oxbow, loch and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lin.
hernesheir See definitions at Lin. Jan 9, 2012
oroboros Nil in reverse. Nov 2, 2007