line
/laɪn/ verb C2- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen. · to line a cloak with silk or fur· to line a box with paper or tin
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money. · to line the shelves
He/she/it lines · Past lined · Past participle lined · -ing form lining
Verb forms
- Base form
- line
- He/she/it
- lines
- Past
- lined
- Past participle
- lined
- -ing form
- lining
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Sherlock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such instructors, may hope in time to attain to some degree of their skill.
If we have no other way of catching him, we can always bait our line with the ring.
“‘Tention!” cried Holmes, in a sharp tone, and the six dirty little scoundrels stood in a line like so many disreputable statuettes.
No doubt it appeared to you to be a mere trampled line of slush, but to my trained eyes every mark upon its surface had a meaning.
Other matches
- line A path through two or more points A1
- line To place B2
- line A group of people born in a certain year C2
- line The longer fiber C2
- line Expresses that the speaker has forgotten their ... C2
- line in To finish a sketch or outline by using a perman...
- line off To mark off using lines.
- line out To appear in a lineout.
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