line
/laɪn/ noun A1- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight. · The arrow descended in a curved line.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- An edge of a graph.
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- The equator.
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
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Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
“Well, if you take that line, Mr.
Except the recollection of the line of politics his father had adopted, and which might interfere, unless he acted with the greatest prudence, with his own career, Gérard de Villefort was as happy as a man could be.
All my lines of thought lead me back invariably to the one basic question—why should an athletic man develop his frame upon so unnatural an instrument as a single dumb-bell?”
Other matches
- line To place B2
- line To cover the inner surface of C2
- 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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