lines meaning
EN[laɪnz]US
WLines
- NounBFline
- plural of line.
- (fortifications, in the plural) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
- (education, in the plural) 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, in the plural) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
- plural of line.
- VerbBFlinePRliningPT, PPlined
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In rice lines containing the dominant (susceptibility) allele of the gene, the expression of the nodulin homolog is up regulated upon infection with Xoo .
- The suit joins a long line of court encounters between sharp reviews and the restaurateurial ego, and, if the earlier cases are a reliable guide, it is doomed.
- The saleswoman told her that her face would look older unless she bought this line of skincare products.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Line up the 1/2 template with the stringer (or draw a center line) — Stephen Pirsch [1]
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I think they've basically decided to go through with it, but they still have to sign on the dotted line.
- Only the results for the thicker PEO microlayers conformed to Eq. 2, with P PEO,eff P PEO , as indicated by the dashed line.
- The areas of lung dysventilation with an absence of alveolar air are visualized in the form of consolidations adjacent to the pleural line.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of lines in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary