red line

See also: redline

English

An ice hockey rink

Etymology

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Noun

red line (plural red lines)

1. (figuratively) A boundary or limit which should not be crossed.
2. (ice hockey) The thick red line on the ice which divides the rink in half.

Translations

a boundary or limit which should not be crossed

• Arabic: خَطّ أَحْمَر m (ḵaṭṭ ʔaḥmar)
• Catalan: línia vermella (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅線／红线 (zh) (hóngxiàn), 红线 (zh) (hóngxiàn)

• Danish: rød linje c
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• French: ligne rouge (fr) f
• German: rote Linie (de) f
• Japanese: レッドライン (reddo rain)
• Kurdish:
• Russian: кра́сная черта́ f (krásnaja čertá), кра́сная ли́ния (ru) f (krásnaja línija)

a line dividing ice rink in half

• Arabic: خَطّ أَحْمَر m (ḵaṭṭ ʔaḥmar)
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• Czech: červená čára f
• German: rote Linie (de) f

See also

• blue line
• goal line (“thin red lines in front of the goals”)
• green line
• redline (verb)
• single yellow line

Anagrams

• Nile red, relined