lines
/laɪnz/ noun A1- Words spoken by the actors. · I have yet to learn my lines.
- Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
- 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
- The reins with which a horse is guided by its driver.
- A certificate of church membership.
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Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.
“The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions.
The actual official guardian of the papers is the famous government expert, Sir James Walter, whose decorations and sub-titles fill two lines of a book of reference.
“You might start a paper on those lines.
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