line
Definition of line:
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part of speech: verb
To cover on the inside with linen or other material: to cover.
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part of speech: noun
A thread of linen or flax: a slender cord: ( math.) that which has length without breadth or thickness: an extended stroke: a straight row: a cord extended to direct any operations: outline: a series, succession of: a mark or lineament, hence a characteristic: a row: a rank: a verse: a short letter or note: a trench, in pl. military works of defence: limit: method: the equator: lineage: direction: occupation: the regular infantry of an army: the twelfth part of an inch.
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part of speech: noun
Length without breadth; a string or cord; a lineament or mark in the hand or face; outline; as much as is written from the one margin to the opposite one; a single row; a series or succession; course or direction; in poetry, a verse or part of a verse; family ascending or descending; line of business; twelfth part of an inch; the line, the equator or equinoctial circle; applied to the largest warships, as a ship of the line.
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part of speech: verb
To cover the inside of a garment, originally with linen, but now with any other texture; to cover on the inside; to strengthen with a guard within; to strengthen with anything added; to impregnate- applied to the lower animals.
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part of speech: verb
To mark out with lines: to cover with lines: to place along by the side of for guarding: by a guard within or by anything added.
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Common misspellings:
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- lione (3.4%)
- lin (29.9%)
- liine (5.7%)
- aline (0.6%)
- lne (8.0%)
- libe (1.7%)
- eline (0.6%)
- lind (2.3%)
- lline (7.5%)
- linr (1.1%)
- l (0.6%)
- lineof (0.6%)
- liv (0.6%)
- oline (0.6%)
- une (1.1%)
- linea (0.6%)
- ine (24.1%)
- jine (0.6%)
- lije (1.1%)
- linke (1.7%)
- linbe (2.3%)
- linve (1.1%)
- line1 (1.1%)
- liune (1.1%)
- sica (1.7%)
Usage examples for line:
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What line Mr. Wickerby?
"Phineas Redux" – Anthony Trollope -
It would be more in his line to want me kept on, so that he might take it out of me.
"The Motor Maid" – Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson -
Line Gerdy has become frightened of me.
"The Twilight of the Souls" – Louis Couperus
