Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Marked with lines, especially with longitudinal and more or less parallel lines: as, a lineate leaf.
  • To draw; delineate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Marked with lines.
  • adjective (Bot.) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Marked with lines.
  • adjective botany Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin lineatus, past participle of lineare ("to reduce to a straight line").

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Examples

  • Could you help to lineate a little bit on the sequence of pre-launch expense you've had on Pharma and Pharma being flat for the year, but the launch is coming up of PENNSAID and EXALGO in the next couple of weeks as you've said.

    Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • Could you help to lineate a little bit on the sequence of pre-launch expense you've had on Pharma and Pharma being flat for the year, but the launch is coming up of PENNSAID and EXALGO in the next couple of weeks as you've said.

    Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • Could you help to lineate a little bit on the sequence of pre-launch expense you've had on Pharma and Pharma being flat for the year, but the launch is coming up of PENNSAID and EXALGO in the next couple of weeks as you've said.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Could you help to lineate a little bit on the sequence of pre-launch expense you've had on Pharma and Pharma being flat for the year, but the launch is coming up of PENNSAID and EXALGO in the next couple of weeks as you've said.

    Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • Could you help to lineate a little bit on the sequence of pre-launch expense you've had on Pharma and Pharma being flat for the year, but the launch is coming up of PENNSAID and EXALGO in the next couple of weeks as you've said.

    Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • Could you help to lineate a little bit on the sequence of pre-launch expense you've had on Pharma and Pharma being flat for the year, but the launch is coming up of PENNSAID and EXALGO in the next couple of weeks as you've said.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Well you’re just a little too sure of a world that fibrillates who knows when and for who knows what reasons..one can never ever de-lineate history and anyone who says one can is..well living in a world of thought and rather divorced from what i might stupidly dare to call physical reality.

    The Vegetarian Myth | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Mr. EDWARD EFFINGHAM, Mr. COOPER had delineated a character intended for himself, and that his leading object, in addition to making money out of the publication, was to give himself and family a fictitious importance in Europe -- a harm - less vanity, with which no one would ever have interfered if he had not, at the same time, traduced every thing American, and grossly slandered each and every class and portion of our people, whose manners and customs he attempted to de - lineate.

    Fenimore Cooper's Libels on America and Americans. Anonymous 1840

  • I am, therefore, now to inform your lordfliip of the fecond trial I have made for getting this bufinefs done, with the event of it, and, in order to explain thefe proceedings more fully, 1 muft beg leave to de - 'lineate to your lordfliip the real dif - ficulties which have prevented thi? buflnefs being done, as they appear very little in the journal of the houfe, and pains have been taken that they fliould not appear, although they are

    A Collection of interesting, authentic papers relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America [microform] : shewing the causes and progress of that misunderstanding from 1764 to 1775 1777

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