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| —n | |
| 1. | a narrow continuous mark, as one made by a pencil, pen, or brush across a surface |
| 2. | such a mark cut into or raised from a surface |
| 3. | a thin indented mark or wrinkle |
| 4. | a straight or curved continuous trace having no breadth that is produced by a moving point |
| 5. | maths |
| a. any straight one-dimensional geometrical element whose identity is determined by two points. A line segment lies between any two points on a line | |
| b. a set of points (x, y) that satisfies the equation y = mx + c, where m is the gradient and c is the intercept with the y-axis | |
| 6. | a border or boundary: the county line |
| 7. | sport |
| a. a white or coloured band indicating a boundary or division on a field, track, etc | |
| b. a mark or imaginary mark at which a race begins or ends | |
| 8. | American football |
| a. See line of scrimmage | |
| b. the players arranged in a row on either side of the line of scrimmage at the start of each play | |
| 9. | a specified point of change or limit: the dividing line between sanity and madness |
| 10. | a. the edge or contour of a shape, as in sculpture or architecture, or a mark on a painting, drawing, etc, defining or suggesting this |
| b. the sum or type of such contours or marks, characteristic of a style or design: the line of a draughtsman; the line of a building | |
| 11. | anything long, flexible, and thin, such as a wire or string: a washing line; a fishing line |
| 12. | a telephone connection: a direct line to New York |
| 13. | a. a conducting wire, cable, or circuit for making connections between pieces of electrical apparatus, such as a cable for electric-power transmission, telecommunications, etc |
| b. (as modifier): the line voltage | |
| 14. | a system of travel or transportation, esp over agreed routes: a shipping line |
| 15. | a company operating such a system |
| 16. | a route between two points on a railway |
| 17. | chiefly (Brit) |
| a. a railway track, including the roadbed, sleepers, etc | |
| b. one of the rails of such a track | |
| 18. | (NZ) a roadway usually in a rural area |
| 19. | a course or direction of movement or advance: the line of flight of a bullet |
| 20. | a course or method of action, behaviour, etc: take a new line with him |
| 21. | a policy or prescribed course of action or way of thinking (often in the phrases bringorcome into line) |
| 22. | a field of study, interest, occupation, trade, or profession: this book is in your line |
| 23. | alignment; true (esp in the phrases in line, out of line) |
| 24. | one kind of product or article: a nice line in hats |
| 25. | (NZ) a collection of bales of wool all of the one type |
| 26. | a row of persons or things: a line of cakes on the conveyor belt |
| 27. | a chronological or ancestral series, esp of people: a line of prime ministers |
| 28. | a row of words printed or written across a page or column |
| 29. | a unit of verse consisting of the number of feet appropriate to the metre being used and written or printed with the words in a single row |
| 30. | a short letter; note: just a line to say thank you |
| 31. | a piece of useful information or hint about something: give me a line on his work |
| 32. | one of a number of narrow horizontal bands forming a television picture |
| 33. | physics a narrow band in an electromagnetic spectrum, resulting from a transition in an atom, ion, or molecule of a gas or plasma |
| 34. | music |
| a. Compare space any of the five horizontal marks that make up the stave | |
| b. the musical part or melody notated on one such set | |
| c. a discernible shape formed by sequences of notes or musical sounds: a meandering melodic line | |
| d. (in polyphonic music) a set of staves that are held together with a bracket or brace | |
| 35. | a unit of magnetic flux equal to 1 maxwell |
| 36. | a defensive or fortified position, esp one that marks the most forward position in war or a national boundary: the front line |
| 37. | line ahead, line abreast a formation adopted by a naval unit for manoeuvring |
| 38. | a formation adopted by a body or a number of military units when drawn up abreast |
| 39. | the combatant forces of certain armies and navies, excluding supporting arms |
| 40. | fencing one of four divisions of the target on a fencer's body, considered as areas to which specific attacks are made |
| 41. | the scent left by a fox |
| 42. | a. the equator (esp in the phrase crossing the line) |
| b. any circle or arc on the terrestrial or celestial sphere | |
| 43. | the amount of insurance written by an underwriter for a particular risk |
| 44. | (US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): queue a line of people, vehicles, etc, waiting for something |
| 45. | slang a portion of a powdered drug for snorting |
| 46. | slang something said for effect, esp to solicit for money, sex, etc: he gave me his usual line |
| 47. | above the line |
| a. accounting denoting entries above a horizontal line on a profit and loss account, separating those that establish the profit or loss from those that show how the profit is distributed | |
| b. denoting revenue transactions rather than capital transactions in a nation's accounts | |
| c. marketing expenditure on media advertising through an agency, rather than internally arranged advertising, such as direct mail, free samples, etc | |
| d. bridge denoting bonus points, marked above the horizontal line on the score card | |
| 48. | below the line |
| a. accounting denoting entries below a horizontal line on a profit and loss account, separating those that establish the profit or loss from those that show how the profit is distributed | |
| b. denoting capital transactions rather than revenue transactions in a nation's accounts | |
| c. marketing denoting expenditure on advertising by other means than the traditional media, such as the provision of free gifts, special displays, direct mailshots, etc | |
| d. bridge denoting points scored towards game and rubber, marked below the horizontal line on the score card | |
| 49. | all along the line |
| a. at every stage in a series | |
| b. in every detail | |
| 50. | informal (Irish), (Austral) do a line to associate (with a person of the opposite sex) regularly; go out (with): he is doing a line with her |
| 51. | draw the line to reasonably object (to) or set a limit (on): her father draws the line at her coming in after midnight |
| 52. | informal get a line on to obtain information about |
| 53. | hold the line |
| a. to keep a telephone line open | |
| b. football to prevent the opponents from taking the ball forward | |
| c. (of soldiers) to keep formation, as when under fire | |
| 54. | in line for in the running for; a candidate for: he's in line for a directorship |
| 55. | in line with conforming to |
| 56. | in the line of duty as a necessary and usually undesired part of the performance of one's responsibilities |
| 57. | lay on the line, put on the line |
| a. to pay money | |
| b. to speak frankly and directly | |
| c. to risk (one's career, reputation, etc) on something | |
| 58. | informal shoot a line to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating |
| 59. | step out of line to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc |
| 60. | toe the line to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc |
| —vb | |
| 61. | (tr) to mark with a line or lines |
| 62. | (tr) to draw or represent with a line or lines |
| 63. | (tr) to be or put as a border to: tulips lined the lawns |
| 64. | to place in or form a row, series, or alignment |
| [C13: partly from Old French ligne, ultimately from Latin līnea, n use of līneus flaxen, from līnum flax; partly from Old English līn, ultimately also from Latin līnum flax] | |
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Liny
is always a great word to know.
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