{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "laɪn" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/line.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/line.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).\n\n\ncognates\n\nCognate with Scots line (“line”), North Frisian liin (“line”), West Frisian line (“line”), Dutch lijn (“rope, cord”), German Leine (“line, rope”), Danish line (“rope, cord”), Swedish lina (“line, rope, wire”), Icelandic lína (“line”). Related also to Dutch lijn (“flax”), German Lein (“flax, linen”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽 (lein, “linen, cloth”), Latin linea (“linen, thread, string, line”), Latin linum (“flax, thread, linen, cable”), Ancient Greek λίνον (línon, “flax, linen, thread, garment”), Old Church Slavonic линъ (linŭ, “flax”), Russian лён (ljon, “flax”), Lithuanian linai (“flax”), Irish līn, lion (“flax”).\n\n\nInfluenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.\nThe oldest sense of the word is \"rope, cord, thread\"; from this the senses \"path\", \"continuous mark\" were derived.", "Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen.", "Borrowed from Middle French ligner." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.\nThe arrow descended in a curved line.", "submean": [ "(geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.\nSynonym: straight line", "(geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.\nSynonym: line segment", "(graph theory) An edge of a graph.", "(geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.", "(geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.\n", "(music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.", "(cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).", "(soccer) The goal line.\n", "(motoring) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.\n" ] }, { "mean": "A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness." }, { "mean": "A hose or pipe, of any size.\na brake line\nthe main water line to the house" }, { "mean": "Direction, path.\nthe line of sight\nthe line of vision" }, { "mean": "The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.\nI tried to make a call, but the line was dead.\na dedicated line;  a shared line\nPlease speak up, the line is very faint." }, { "mean": "A clothesline.\nWe need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail." }, { "mean": "A letter, a written form of communication.\nSynonyms: epistle, letter, note\nDrop me a line." }, { "mean": "A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.\na line of stages\nan express line" }, { "mean": "(military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces." }, { "mean": "The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation." }, { "mean": "A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A measuring line or cord." }, { "mean": "That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode." }, { "mean": "A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark." }, { "mean": "Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body)." }, { "mean": "A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. \nSynonyms: (Canada) lineup, (UK, Ireland) queue\nThe line forms on the right.\nThere is a line of houses.", "submean": [ "(military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle." ] }, { "mean": "(military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc." }, { "mean": "(music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work." }, { "mean": "A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage." }, { "mean": "A small amount of text. 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(Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)\nJudy gave me a line on a lawyer who's supposed to be the best in the business." }, { "mean": "A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself. \nline of business, product line\nHow many buses does the line have?\nThe airline is in danger of bankruptcy." }, { "mean": "(stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber." }, { "mean": "Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:", "submean": [ "(historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.\n", "One twelfth of an inch.\n", "One sixteenth of an inch.", "One fortieth of an inch.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(advertising) Short for agate line." }, { "mean": "(historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux." }, { "mean": "(baseball, slang, 1800s, with \"the\") The batter's box." }, { "mean": "(fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.\nSynonym: line of engagement" }, { "mean": "(engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).\nthe engine is in line / out of line" }, { "mean": "A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Instruction; doctrine." }, { "mean": "(genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup." }, { "mean": "(perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter." }, { "mean": "(ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together." }, { "mean": "(Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team." }, { "mean": "(medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.\npatient had a line inserted\nline sepsis" }, { "mean": "(South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).\nmaknae line; hyung line; 97 line" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with \"up\"); to form into a line; to align.\nto line troops\n(Can we add an example for this sense?)" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.\nto line works with soldiers" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To form a line along." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.\nto line a copy book" }, { "mean": "(rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.\nThe dispatcher lined the switches at Pickle interlocking for the freight turnout to clear the train into the passing track before the express arrived." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To read or repeat line by line.\nto line out a hymn" }, { "mean": "(intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. 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