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line1
- pronunciation:
- laIn
- parts of speech:
- noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb
- phrases:
- draw the line, read between the lines
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a thin, unbroken, elongated mark, as made on a surface.
Notebook paper always has lines, but stationery rarely does.She drew a line in the sand with a stick.- synonyms:
- hatch, stripe
- similar words:
- band, bar, furrow, hairline, limit, lineation, mark, outline, score, stria, striation, strip, underline
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| definition 2: |
a boundary or limit; point at which something must stop.
The criminals crossed the state line.- synonyms:
- border, boundary, edge, limit, outline
- similar words:
- bound, compass, demarcation, frontier, margin, mete, rim
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| definition 3: |
a string, rope, wire, or the like.
Put the washing out on the line.- synonyms:
- bowline, cable, cord, filament, hawser, painter, rope, twine
- similar words:
- clothesline, lanyard, sheet, snell, string
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| definition 4: |
a row of persons or things.
The line for tickets went all the way around the block.
- synonyms:
- queue, rank, row, string
- similar words:
- array, chain, concatenation, cortege, procession, range, run, series, single file
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| definition 5: |
a group of words that serve as a unit of a larger composition.
a line of poetrya line of text- synonyms:
- foot, passage, phrase, stich, verse
- similar words:
- antistrophe, refrain, stanza, strophe, versicle
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| definition 6: |
a transportation system, or a particular route taken by vehicles in the system.
the bus line- similar words:
- metro, railroad, railway, subway, transit, trunk line
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| definition 7: |
means of making a living; trade or profession.
His line is food service.- synonyms:
- business, field, livelihood, métier, occupation, profession, trade, vocation, walk of life
- similar words:
- avocation, calling, career, game, job, living, pursuit, specialty
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| definition 8: |
a doctrine or set of beliefs.
- synonyms:
- belief, doctrine, ideology, party line, tenet
- similar words:
- approach, canon, dogma, philosophy, policy, scheme, system
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| definition 9: |
a conducting wire or set of wires in an electrical or telephone system.
- synonyms:
- cable, wire
- similar words:
- circuit, coaxial cable, party line, telegraph, trunk, trunk line, WATS
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| definition 10: |
(pl.) shape or contour, as of a building, sculpture, or the like.
- synonyms:
- contour, lineation, outline, pattern
- similar words:
- design, figure, form, hang, profile, shape, silhouette, sketch
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| definition 11: |
a very short written message; letter.
- synonyms:
- memo, memorandum, notation, note, word
- similar words:
- jotting, letter, message
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| definition 12: |
in football, the players who form on the line of scrimmage.
- similar words:
- formation, line of scrimmage, lineup
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| definition 13: |
(slang) a small amount of cocaine in a thin row for sniffing.
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| definition 14: |
a statement, often unoriginal and insincere, that is made to pacify, persuade, flatter, or charm.
He told her she looked like a goddess, but it was just one of his usual lines with women.Every time I called, they gave me some line about his being in a meeting. |
| related words: |
border, cable, canon, convoy, defile, division, echelon, edge, fix, fold, leader, leash, lineage, mold, parade, profession, tether, tie, tow, trade, trail, tube, vocation, word, work |
| phrase: |
draw the line |
| phrase: |
read between the lines |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
lined, lines, lining |
| definition 1: |
to take a place in a line (usu. fol. by up).
- synonyms:
- queue
- similar words:
- align, organize, range, rank, string
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| definition 2: |
in baseball, to hit the ball in a more or less straight line.
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to cause to form into a line or row.
- synonyms:
- array, queue, range
- similar words:
- align, arrange, marshal, rank, regiment, row, straighten, string
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| definition 2: |
to arrange for or organize; make ready (fol. by up).
We lined up support for the tax bill.- synonyms:
- arrange, enlist, marshal, organize
- similar words:
- employ, engage, enroll, get, reserve, secure, sign up
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| definition 3: |
to mark with a line or lines.
- synonyms:
- crosshatch, groove, hatch, rule, striate, underline, underscore
- similar words:
- belt, delineate, draft, draw, furrow, incise, inscribe, score, sketch, streak, trace
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| related words: |
rule |
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