line

I 1. noun

1)

he drew a line through the name

Syn:

dash, rule, bar, score; underline, underscore, stroke, slash; technical stria, striation

2)

there were lines around her eyes

Syn:

wrinkle, furrow, crease, groove, crinkle, crow's foot, laugh line

3) (usu. lines)

the classic lines of the exterior

Syn:

contour, outline, configuration, shape, figure, delineation, profile

4)

the line between Canada and the United States

Syn:

boundary, boundary line, limit, border, borderline, demarcation line, dividing line, edge, margin, perimeter, frontier

5) (usu. lines)

behind enemy lines

Syn:

position, formation, defense, fieldwork, front (line); trenches

6)

he put the wash on the line

Syn:

clothesline; cord rope, string, cable, wire, thread, twine, strand

7)

they waited in a line

Syn:

row, file, lineup, queue

8)

a line of figures

Syn:

column, row

9)

a long line of bad decisions

Syn:

series, sequence, succession, chain, string, set, cycle

10)

a line of flight

Syn:

course, route, track, path, way, run

11)

they took a very tough line with the industry

the party line

Syn:

course of action, course, procedure, technique, tactic, tack; policy, practice, approach, plan, program, position, stance, philosophy

12)

her own line of thought

Syn:

course, direction, drift, tack, tendency, trend

13) informal

he fed me a line

Syn:

story, piece of fiction, fabrication; informal spiel

14) (lines)

he couldn't remember his lines

Syn:

words, part, script, speech

15)

my line is engineering

Syn:

line of work, work, line of business, business, field, trade, occupation, employment, profession, job, career, specialty, forte, province, department, sphere, area, area of expertise

16)

a new line of cologne

Syn:

brand, kind, sort, type, variety, make

17)

a noble line

Syn:

ancestry, family, parentage, birth, descent, lineage, extraction, genealogy, roots, origin, background; stock, bloodline, pedigree

18)

the opening line of the poem

Syn:

sentence, phrase, clause, utterance; passage, extract, quotation, quote, citation

19)

I should drop Ralph a line

Syn:

note, letter, card, postcard, e-mail, message, communication, missive, memorandum; correspondence, word; informal memo; formal epistle

2. verb

1)

her face was lined with age

Syn:

furrow, wrinkle, crease, pucker, mark with lines

2)

the driveway was lined by poplars

Syn:

border, edge, fringe, bound, rim

•

- draw the line at

- in line

- in line for

- get a line on

- lay it on the line

- line up

- on the line

- toe the line

II verb

they lined the handbags with a quilted rayon

- line one's pockets

Syn:

put a lining in, interline, face, back, pad