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Verb
- reinforce with fabric
- lined books are more enduring
- mark with lines
- sorrow had lined his face
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- trace the outline of a figure in the sand
- be in line with; form a line along
Noun
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity
- a short personal letter
- drop me a line when you get there
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- `let me show you my etchings' is a rather worn line
- he has a smooth line but I didn't fall for it
- that salesman must have practiced his fast line of talk
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- she was humming an air from Beethoven
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- it must go through official channels
- lines of communication were set up between the two firms
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- he's not in my line of business
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- the descendants of one individual
- his entire lineage has been warriors
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport
- a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
- ironing gets rid of most wrinkles
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- the government took a firm course
- historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- I can't follow your line of reasoning
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- they attacked the enemy's line
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- the letter consisted of three short lines
- there are six lines in every stanza
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- the line stretched clear around the corner
- you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- He drew a line on the chart
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- the line of soldiers advanced with their bayonets fixed
- they were arrayed in line of battle
- the cast stood in line for the curtain call