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inline

[ in-lahyn ]

noun

, Printing.
  1. an ornamented type with a line of white or of a contrasting color running just inside the edge and following the contour of each letter.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of inline1

First recorded in 1920–25; in + line 1

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Example Sentences

I’ve worn them hiking, running, biking, rafting, inline skating, climbing, and even slip-’n’-sliding and they didn’t ride up once.

Some models even include inline fuses to prevent bulb blowouts.

I originally got into inline skating during quarantine as a way to get out of the house and train for ski season—and maybe it had something to do with wanting to look cool.

The Chrome Team’s first announcement has to do with a new security sandbox feature that isolates instances of inline frames.

Likewise, the new American Airlines terminal at JFK has eight inline scanners that can handle 3,200 bags an hour.

On some reading devices, inline stage directions are set off from the text by parentheses added by the transcriber.

The many images of the original are inline here as grayscale graphics in PNG format, scaled to 480 or 512 pixels width.

Pulverem facito, et cribello medicinali omnem pulverem cerne et permisce, et cum vino vetere calefacto locum inline.

Inline notes, like this, show each spelling and hyphenation correction.

There is a psychic connection between the outline of furniture and the inline of man.

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