Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of line.
- n. fortifications, plural Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
- n. shipbuilding, plural form of vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
- n. education, plural A school punishment in which a student must repeatedly write out a line of text related to the offence (e.g. "I must be quiet in class") a specified number of times; the lines of text so written out.
- n. US, plural The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of line.
Examples
“For cutting lines and removing the insulation at the lines ends suitable tools will be employed like side cutting pliers, cable strippers, stripping tools or automatic wire stripping pliers.”
“If letters or words require to be altered to make them more conspicuous a parallel line or lines must be made underneath the word or letter -- namely, for capitals, _three lines_; for small capitals,”
Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
“The _extent of the staff_ may be increased either above or below by the addition of short lines called _leger lines_, [4] and notes may be written on either these lines or on the spaces above and below them.”
“Such lines between operators have come to be known as _trunk lines_, because of the obvious analogy to trunk lines of railways between common centers, and such a system of telephone lines may be called a”
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
“Others extracted from the sayings of Michael Angelo the precept that serpentine undulating lines were the true _lines of beauty_.”
“_Suppose countless lines radiating_ from its _centre_ on every side, and it _resists_ along each of these _lines_ and _coheres_ along each of these _lines_.”
“The next step is to locate the contour lines of the land, or the lines of equal elevation, — also called the _horizontal lines_, — which serve to show the shape of the surface.”
“The answer was -- 'No, _all the lines on the Continent_ are now _Morse lines_.”
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II
“The term _maneuver-lines_ I apply to momentary strategic lines, often adopted for a single temporary maneuver, and which are by no means to be confounded with the real _lines of operations_.”
“Posts: 1,155 echo "There are $lines lines in $file”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lines’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Lines
lines, line, recline, line item, incline, Line Islands, acetylcholine, aclinic line, linen, Linear A, line storm, landline and 13 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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OM1 Lesson 7
limp, ankle, twist, light bulb, balance, lose, ladder, fall off, cart, shopping cart, meat, snacks and 11 more...
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train
passenger, ltrz, beside, knees, blur, view, depart, arrive, glimpse, glance, recognize, yawn and 38 more...
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donative speech
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evolution
list of words that are associated in my mind with evolution
improvisation, paths, lines, choices, decisions, providence, incidence, osmosis
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