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Definitions of line:

noun: acting in conformity
Example: "In line with"
noun: something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
Example: "A washing line"
noun: the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
noun: a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
noun: a particular kind of product or merchandise
Example: "A nice line of shoes"
noun: a conceptual separation or demarcation
Example: "There is a narrow line between sanity and insanity"
noun: a mark that is long relative to its width
Example: "He drew a line on the chart"
noun: text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
Example: "The letter consisted of three short lines"
noun: a formation of people or things one behind another
Example: "The line stretched clear around the corner"
noun: a formation of people or things one beside another
Example: "The line of soldiers advanced with their bayonets fixed"
noun: a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
noun: in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
noun: a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
Example: "They attacked the enemy's line"
noun: a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
noun: a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
noun: a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
noun: a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
Example: "A pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport"
noun: the descendants of one individual
Example: "His entire lineage has been warriors"
noun: a connected series of events or actions or developments
Example: "Historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
noun: space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
noun: mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
noun: (often plural) a means of communication or access
Example: "Lines of communication were set up between the two firms"
noun: a short personal letter
Example: "Drop me a line when you get there"
noun: the methodical process of logical reasoning
Example: "I can't follow your line of reasoning"
noun: the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Example: "He's not in my line of business"
noun: a telephone connection
noun: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
noun: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
Example: "His face has many lines"
verb: reinforce with fabric
Example: "Lined books are more enduring"
verb: be in line with; form a line along
Example: "Trees line the riverbank"
verb: fill plentifully
Example: "Line one's pockets"
verb: cover the interior of (garments)
Example: "Line the gloves"
verb: mark with lines
Example: "Sorrow had lined his face"
verb: make a mark or lines on a surface
Example: "Draw a line"
name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #14006)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to line: (1193 results)
Synonyms:
agate line, air, ancestry, argumentation, assembly line, bank line, blood, bloodline, blood line, business, business line, cable, channel, communication channel, contrast, course, crease, credit line, crinkle, delineate, demarcation, descent, describe, dividing line, draw, electrical cable, furrow, lineage, line of business, line of credit, line of descent, line of merchandise, line of products, line of reasoning, line of work, logical argument, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, note, occupation, origin, outline, parentage, pedigree, personal credit line, personal line of credit, phone line, pipeline, production line, product line, rail line, railway line, run along, seam, short letter, stock, strain, telephone line, trace, transmission line, tune, wrinkle

Contains:
bitter end, conveyer, conveyer belt, conveyor, conveyor belt, musical phrase, phrase, railroad bed, railroad track, railway, top of the line, transporter

Part of:
cable system, cable television, cable television service, cutis, electromagnetic spectrum, factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill, phone system, skin, tegument, telephone system, transit, transportation, transportation system

More general:
abidance, abstract thought, activity, area unit, artefact, artifact, carrier, commodity, common carrier, communicating, communication, compliance, conductor, conformation, conformity, connecter, connection, connective, connector, connexion, cover, credit, depression, differentiation, distinction, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, family tree, fill, fill up, form, formation, genealogy, goods, impression, imprint, lie, linguistic string, location, logical thinking, make full, mark, military position, music, nock, personal letter, pipage, pipe, piping, position, reasoning, reenforce, reinforce, score, series, shape, square measure, string, string of words, system, unit, word string

More specific:
aclinic line, actor's line, agonic line, airline business, airline, airway, alaskan pipeline, apparent horizon, axis, babbitt, balkline, bar line, baseline, battlefront, battle line, baulk line, biz, bottom line, boundary, bound, branch line, breed, by-line, calling, career, casuistry, catering, center line, centerline, chalk, charcoal, chorus, chorus line, circumscribe, coax cable, coaxial cable, coax, conga line, construct, consumer credit, contact, contour, contour line, cord, craft, crest, crib, crisscross, cross hair, cross wire, crow's feet, crow's foot, curlicue, current, curved shape, curve, danger line, dateline, divide, doodle, edge, employment, face, family, family line, fanfare, farming, fiber optic cable, fibre optic cable, field line, file, finishing line, finish line, firing line, flight line, flourish, flow, folk, foul line, front, front line, gag line, game, gas line, geodesic, geodesic line, glissando, goal line, great circle, guideline, hairline, heading, head, heart line, hemline, hipline, horizon, hot line, idea, indian file, inscribe, inter-group communication, isarithm, isogonal line, isogone, isogonic line, isogram, isopleth, job, kinfolk, kinsfolk, know, land, laniard, lanyard, latitude, laugh line, ledger line, leger line, leitmotif, leitmotiv, liaison, life line, lifeline, linemen, line of battle, line of destiny, line of fate, line of force, line of gab, line of heart, line of inquiry, line of latitude, line of life, line of march, line of poetry, line of questioning, line of saturn, line of scrimmage, line of sight, line of succession, line of verse, line of vision, lineup, link, love line, loxodrome, lunar latitude, magnetic equator, mainsheet, medium, melodic theme, mensal line, metier, mooring, mooring line, musical theme, oil pipeline, opening line, out of-bounds, parallel, parallel of latitude, part, party line, path, patter, pencil, perimeter, photography, phratry, picket line, point of no return, policy, power cable, power line, printer cable, private line, profession, punch line, quadrant, quarter-circle, queue, railroad, railroad line, railway system, rank, ratline, ratlin, red line, reline, rhumb, rhumb line, rim, rivet line, route, row, rubicon, scrimmage line, sensible horizon, sept, serif, seriph, shaft, sheet, short line, shroud, side, sideline, signature, signature tune, single file, skyline, snow line, sound bite, spectrum line, speech, spiel, sport, spur, spur track, squiggle, staff line, starting line, start, steamship company, steamship line, straight line, strand, stream, string line, tack, tag line, theme, theme song, timber line, timberline, toll line, towing line, towing rope, towline, towrope, track, trade, trans-alaska ppipeline, transit line, trap line, tree line, trend line, trunk line, trunk route, verse, verse line, visible horizon, vocation, voice, waiting line, water level, water line, waterline, watermark, water parting, watershed, wats, wats line, weather sheet, words, work, write, yardline

Often used in the same context:
affection, angles, ashes, attack, awhile, bay, bet, between, blind, block, bone, bridge, c, caroline, case, chat, chill, circle, climb, com, count, court, crime, cup, deadline, defense, dent, dictionary, dime, ditch, drive, electric, famous, fee, feline, finish, football, half, hook, ine, internet, kinds, knee, lick, limit, lines, message, mission, net, online, on line, pie, price, prism, pull, punchline, rabbit, ready, record, retire, rewind, risk, robot, rule, says, seas, service, slip, society, sometimes, station, straight, strife, sunshine, tech, tee, telephone, time, tone, twice, underline, web, whack, wide, wire, yell

Appears in the definition of:
., abatis, abattis, abductor, abductor muscle, abney level, accentual, acoustic delay line, acrostic, adductor, adductor muscle, adjust, adonic, adonic line, african-american music, agnation, airdrop, alexandrine, aligned, aligning, alignment, alliteration, al-muhajiroun, along, alpine, alto clef, american football, american football game, anadiplosis, andre maginot, angle, angle of incidence, angle of inclination, angle of reflection, angle of refraction, angler, angling, antarctic circle, arctic circle, array, aside, asymptote, athwart, auroral, author's name, auxiliary operation, avalanche lily, avenue, back, backfield, balance, basic, bass clef, baulk-line, beachlike, beachy, becket, beginning rhyme, bend, bend dexter, bias, bilateral descent, bin liner, bisect, bitt, black music, blackwall hitch, blitz, blog, blue, bob, bobber, bobfloat, boom, border, borderline, boundary line, bounds, bourbon, bourbon dynasty, bow, breached, bummer, busy, caesura, cancan, capillary fracture, carriage return, carry, cast, casting, catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, center, centre, chafing gear, chalk line, change, charge account credit, charity shot, charity throw, charity toss, chip, chord, chorine, chorus girl, cleat, cleavage, clove hitch, cognation, collimate, collimation, collimator, collinear, coloring book, column, command, compare, compensating balance, concave polygon, conform, continuation, contradance, contra danse, contredanse, convex polygon, cookie, cork, corner kick, corner man, correspondence, cosmetic surgery, countersign, country-dance, country dancing, credit application, cross, cue, curb, curbing, curvature, curvilineal, curvilinear, cut, cycloid, cylinder, dash, date line, dead, dead center, dead centre, debut, decasyllable, deflect, delimitation, depart, derivation, deviate, deviationism, deviationist, diagonal, diam, diameter, dipole, dipole antenna, direct, direction, discovered check, diverge, divestiture, divisional, dotted, dotted line, double-spaced, draw play, draw the line, drip loop, dropline, drop line, drum printer, echelon, electrical line of force, electromagnetic delay line, element, elementary geometry, element of a cone, element of a cylinder, elliptic geometry, el nino, enation, end, end man, end run, end-stopped, engaged, enjambement, enjambment, epicycloid, equator, erythronium montanum, euclidean geometry, expletive, extension, extension phone, facelift, face lift, face lifting, fall, fall in, fathom, fault line, f clef, feeder line, fee tail, fence line, field artillery, field gun, fill out, firestone, fisherman's bend, fishing pole, fishing rod, flanker, flanker back, flat knot, flying, flying start, follow-through, foul shot, free throw, free throw lane, fuel filter, funny story, furnace lining, gather, gathering, g clef, gen, generation, gnetales, goal-kick, golden mean, golden section, good continuation, good story, gradient, graduation, grazed, ground, groundbreaker, guard, hairline fracture, hair stroke, hamate, hamate bone, handline, hand line, hang on, hard line, hard-line, harpoon, header, headfast, head rhyme, headword, heaviness, hexameter, high-water mark, hold on, hold the line, homestretch, homophonic, hook up, hopeful, horizontal, horizontal surface, house, house of york, hyperbolic geometry, hyperfine, hyphen, hyphenation, hypocycloid, iambic, incidence angle, inclination, indent, indentation, indenture, indirect, infiltrate, initial rhyme, in line, in-line skate, innovator, inside clinch, instruction, intercept, interdict, interlocutor, internal rhyme, international date line, interpreter, interpretive program, in usep, in-your-face, isometric, isometric line, itinerary, kepler's second law, kerb, key, kink, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered, landline, land line, law of areas, law of continuation, law of equal areas, lay out, lead-in, lead line, leaf-cutter, leaf-cutter bee, leaf-cutting bee, leaning, length, level, levirate, lift, lightning arrester, lineal, lineally, linear, line-at-a-time printer, lineation, linebacker, line backer, linebacker blitzing, linecut, lined, line double, line-drive double, line-drive single, line-drive triple, line engraving, line feed, line item, linelike, lineman, line management, line of control, line of defense, line printer, line roulette, line single, line squall, line triple, line up, line worker, linotype, linotype machine, list, log, loop-line, low-water mark, lubber line, lubber's line, lubber's mark, lubber's point, maginot, magnetic line of force, magnetic meridian, margin, market, marline, mason and dixon line, mason and dixon's line, mason-dixon line, mass-produced, mass production, matriarchate, matriarchic, matriarchy, matrilineage, matrilineal, matrilineally, matrilinear, mcburney's point, menacingly, metacenter, metacentre, mete, middle, middle c, middleman, midpoint, milline, modem, monophonic, mousetrap, murmansk, neck and neck, neckline, new line, next, night-line, nip and tuck, north, northern, objection, octameter, octosyllabic, octosyllable, off-line, off-line operation, offsetting balance, offside, offsides, one-dimensional, one-liner, on-line, opel, open-end credit, optic axis, order gnetales, orphan, os hamatum, out of bounds, outside clinch, pad, paint, painter, panfish, pant, parabolic geometry, paragraph, parallax, parget, pargeting, pargetting, party liner, party man, party wall, pass through, patriarchate, patriarchic, patriarchy, patrilineage, patrilineal, patrilineally, patrilinear, penalty free throw, pentameter, people, perforation, perpendicular, perpendicularity, perpendicularly, phrasing, pioneer, pitchman, plantagenet, plantagenet line, play, plumb, plumb bob, plumbed, plumb level, plumb rule, plummet, polar circle, polar coordinate, positioning, possession, precede, primogenitor, principal axis, product introduction, progenitor, program line, prolonged, prompt, prompting, property line, puddle, purse seine, queue up, radial velocity, radius, radius vector, rail, railroad flat, railroad siding, railroad train, range, ray, reception, reception line, rectification, rectilineal, rectilinear, red-hot, reduplication, reef knot, refractory, regression coefficient, regression curve, regression line, return, return key, revolving credit, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, ribbon, riemannian geometry, rightmost, rocket, roller blade, rolling hitch, romanoff, romanov, rope, roulette, roundelay, roundness, row of bricks, run, running back, running start, rush, rushing, safety, safety blitz, salient, satin weave, scribe, secant, secondary, securely, seize, seleucus, seleucus i, seleucus i nicator, service line, setline, set out, sheepshank, shoreline, shove, showgirl, sidetrack, siding, siegfried line, simplex, skitter, skyrocket, slope, slur, smash, smut, snapline, snap line, snapper, solid, sonic delay line, soprano clef, sound, sounded, sounding, sounding lead, sounding line, south, southern, specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, spike arrester, spike suppressor, spiller, spread eagle, spread out, staggered head, stagger head, standing wave, starting gate, starting stalls, statement, stationary wave, stephead, stepped line, still-fish, stockade, streak, stretch, string out, stymie, suit, superficial middle cerebral vein, surge protector, surge suppressor, surpass, sweep, symmetricalness, symmetry, syzygy, tackle, tailback, tailored, take back, tangency, tangent, tap, tape, telephone extension, tenor clef, tetrameter, texture, thalweg, thecodont, thecodont reptile, thickness, thin, thread, tidemark, tilt, touchdown, trailblazer, train, transfer, trap play, trawl, trawl line, treble clef, trend, trice, trice up, trim, trip wire, trisect, troll, troller, trolley line, trolling, tropic of cancer, tropic of capricorn, trotline, tug-of-war, tundra, turn away, turnout, twirl, twist, unciform bone, underscore, unilateral, unilateral descent, unilateralist, vacillate, vapor lock, vapour lock, vary, vector, vertical, viola clef, wainscot, wainscoting, wainscotting, wait, way, web log, wilhelm von opel, winch, wiretap, word division, writer's name, yard line, york

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