lines

See also line

English

Pronunciation

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  (file)

Noun

lines (plural)

1. Plural form of line
2. (fortifications, plural) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
3. (shipbuilding, plural) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
4. (education, plural) A school punishment in which a student must repeatedly write out a line of text related to the offence (e.g. "I must be quiet in class") a specified number of times; the lines of text so written out.

   If you don't behave I'll give you lines

   I had to write out 200 lines

5. (US, plural) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.

Verb

lines

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of line.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: wait · laughed · opportunity · #792: lines · personal · due · Henry

Anagrams

• lenis
• liens

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Latin

Verb

linēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of linō