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line cut

noun

, Printing.
  1. an engraving consisting only of lines or areas that are solid black or white. Compare halftone ( def 2 ).


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Word History and Origins

Origin of line cut1

First recorded in 1900–05

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Example Sentences

Companies worried about their bottom line cut workers loose instead, and these workers were left on their own to find ways of mastering new skills.

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Looking away toward the top of the ridge where a single power line cut across to a distant coal mine, he said, “We might do it.”

I saw a long, broad gleam of silvery white, my line cut through the water, and the old-timer started for his bed under the bank.

The line cut the water with a swish, swish, swish that was plainly heard by all.

D in Figure 99 shows the enrichment line cut to a depth which threatens the structural value of the rail.

He had not yet recovered from the agony of having that water-melon line cut out of his part.

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