lines
See also: Lines
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lines
Noun
[edit]lines pl (plural only)
- (film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.
- I have yet to learn my lines.
- (fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.[1]
- (shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.[1]
- (education) 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
- (US) The reins with which a horse is guided by its driver.[1]
- A certificate of church membership.
- Coordinate term: marriage lines
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]lines
- third-person singular simple present indicative of line
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “line”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lesbi or lesbian. Compare binan.
Noun
[edit]lines (plural lines-lines)
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]linēs
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]lines m pl
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