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- noun Plural form of
line . - noun fortifications, plural Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a
front in but one direction to anenemy . - noun shipbuilding, plural Form of a
vessel as shown by theoutlines ofvertical ,horizontal , andoblique sections . - noun 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. - noun US, plural The reins with which a
horse isguided by hisdriver . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
line .
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Examples
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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Others extracted from the sayings of Michael Angelo the precept that serpentine undulating lines were the true _lines of beauty_.
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_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_.
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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.
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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
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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_.
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