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View synonyms for lines
lines
/ laɪnz /
plural noun
- general appearance or outline
a car with fine lines
- a plan of procedure or construction
built on traditional lines
- the spoken words of a theatrical presentation
- the words of a particular role
he forgot his lines
- informal.a marriage certificate
marriage lines
- luck, fate, or fortune (esp in the phrase hard lines )
- rows of tents, buildings, temporary stabling, etc, in a military camp
transport lines
- a defensive position, row of trenches, or other fortification
we broke through the enemy lines
- a school punishment of writing the same sentence or phrase out a specified number of times
- the phrases or sentences so written out
a hundred lines
- read between the linesread between the lines to understand or find an implicit meaning in addition to the obvious one
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