line

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
II verb

they lined the handbags with a quilted rayon

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

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