line
noun
- one-dimensional geometric object
- group of people waiting for service or goods
- subdivision of a text file
- tactical formation of soldiers
- subdivision of a poem
- ornamental element on an artwork
- in graphics, narrow field between two points
- wire, cord
verb
- form a line (esp. "line up")
- provide a lining, accompany in line-like fashion
- puts lines on
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /laɪn/ / /lɑɪn/ / [lɑe̯n]
intj
Etymology: 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”). Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen. The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.
- Expresses that the speaker has forgotten their dialogue and needs to be prompted with it.
name
Etymology: From the Middle English surname, derived from the Anglo-Norman suffix -line found in names such as Adeline and Madeline.
- An English and Scottish surname.
noun
Etymology: From Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen.
- Flax, linen.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Middle French lignerbor. English line Borrowed from Middle French ligner.
- To copulate with, to impregnate.