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| Main Entry: |
line
 [lahyn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mark, stroke; border |
| Synonyms: | band, bar, borderline, boundary, channel, configuration, contour, crease, dash, delineation, demarcation, edge, figuration, figure, frontier, furrow, groove, limit, lineament, lineation, outline, profile, rule, score, scratch, silhouette, streak, stripe, tracing, underline, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cord, rope |
| Synonyms: | cable, filament, strand, string, thread, wire |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, policy |
| Synonyms: | approach, avenue, course, course of action, ideology, method, polity, position, practice, principle, procedure, program, route, scheme, system |
Example Sentences
- The faults of a long line are monotony and unwieldiness.
- The laser draws an image onto the screen by scanning line by line from top to bottom.
- But with every mile the story line had become more and more scrambled and the spectators more and more subdued.
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's calling, interest |
| Synonyms: | activity, area, business, department, employment, field, forte, job, occupation, profession, province, pursuit, racket, specialization, trade, vocation, work |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | breed, descent, family, heredity, lineage, pedigree, race, stock, strain, succession |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written communication |
| Synonyms: | card, letter, message, note, postcard, report, word |
| Antonyms: | speech |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hint; influential communication |
| Synonyms: | clue, indication, information, lead, patter, persuasion, pitch, prepared speech, song and dance, spiel* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | merchandise carried by store |
| Synonyms: | commodity, goods, involvement, materials, produce, trade, vendibles, wares |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | border, mark |
| Synonyms: | abut, adjoin, align, allineate, array, bound, butt against, communicate, crease, cut, delineate, draw, edge, fix, follow, fringe, furrow, group, inscribe, join, line up, march, marshal, neighbor, order, ordinate, outline, place, queue, range, rank, rim, rule, score, skirt, touch, trace, underline, verge |
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