ALL meanings of line
line
L l - countable noun line You can use line to refer to the way in which someone's thoughts or activities develop, particularly if it is logical. 0
- noun plural line If you say that something happens along particular lines, or on particular lines, you are giving a general summary or approximate account of what happens, which may not be correct in every detail. 0
- noun plural line If something is organized on particular lines, or along particular lines, it is organized according to that method or principle. 0
- countable noun line Your line of business or work is the kind of work that you do. 0
- singular noun line If someone says that something is your line, or that it is in your line, they mean that it is the sort of thing that you often do because you enjoy doing it. 0
- countable noun line A line is a particular type of product that a company makes or sells. 0
- singular noun line You can use line to refer to something connected with a particular activity. For example, something in the sports line is connected with sports. 0
- countable noun line In a factory, a line is an arrangement of workers or machines where a product passes from one worker to another until it is finished. 0
- countable noun line You can use line to refer to all the generations of a family, especially when you are considering the social status or the physical characteristics that the various members inherit. 0
- countable noun line You can use line when you are referring to a number of people who are ranked according to status. 0
- countable noun line A particular line of people or things is a series of them that has existed over a period of time, when they have all been similar in some way, or done similar things. 0
- verb line If people or things line a road, room, or other place, they are present in large numbers along its edges or sides. 0
- verb line If you line a wall, container, or other object, you put a layer of something such as leaves or paper on the inside surface of it in order to make it stronger, warmer, or cleaner. 0
- verb line If something lines a container or area, especially an area inside a person, animal, or plant, it forms a layer on the inside surface. 0
- noun line a narrow continuous mark, as one made by a pencil, pen, or brush across a surface 0
- noun line such a mark cut into or raised from a surface 0
- noun line a thin indented mark or wrinkle 0
- noun line a straight or curved continuous trace having no breadth that is produced by a moving point 0
- noun line any straight one-dimensional geometrical element whose identity is determined by two points. A line segment lies between any two points on a line 0
- noun line 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 0
- noun line a border or boundary 0
- noun line a white or coloured band indicating a boundary or division on a field, track, etc 0
- noun line a mark or imaginary mark at which a race begins or ends 0
- noun line the players arranged in a row on either side of the line of scrimmage at the start of each play 0
- noun line a specified point of change or limit 0
- noun line the edge or contour of a shape, as in sculpture or architecture, or a mark on a painting, drawing, etc, defining or suggesting this 0
- noun line the sum or type of such contours or marks, characteristic of a style or design 0
- noun line anything long, flexible, and thin, such as a wire or string 0
- noun line a telephone connection 0
- noun line a conducting wire, cable, or circuit for making connections between pieces of electrical apparatus, such as a cable for electric-power transmission, telecommunications, etc 0
- noun line (as modifier) 0
- noun line a system of travel or transportation, esp over agreed routes 0
- noun line a company operating such a system 0
- noun line a route between two points on a railway 0
- noun line a railway track, including the roadbed, sleepers, etc 0
- noun line one of the rails of such a track 0
- noun line a roadway usually in a rural area 0
- noun line a course or direction of movement or advance 0
- noun line a course or method of action, behaviour, etc 0
- noun line a policy or prescribed course of action or way of thinking (often in the phrases bring or come into line) 0
- noun line a field of study, interest, occupation, trade, or profession 0
- noun line alignment; true (esp in the phrases in line, out of line) 0
- noun line one kind of product or article 0
- noun line a collection of bales of wool all of the one type 0
- noun line a row of persons or things 0
- noun line a chronological or ancestral series, esp of people 0
- noun line a row of words printed or written across a page or column 0
- noun line 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 0
- noun line a short letter; note 0
- noun line a piece of useful information or hint about something 0