What is line?

More definitions of "line":

• (noun): A fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops).
  Example: "They attacked the enemy's line"

• (noun): The maximum credit that a customer is allowed.
  Synonyms: credit line, line of credit, bank line, personal credit line, personal line of credit

• (verb): Reinforce with fabric.
  Example: "Lined books are more enduring"

• (noun): A single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum.

• (noun): Acting in conformity.
  Example: "In line with"; "he got out of line"; "toe the line"

• (noun): A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.
  Synonyms: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam

• (noun): Something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible.
  Example: "A washing line"

• (noun): A conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power.
  Synonyms: cable, transmission line

• (noun): A pipe used to transport liquids or gases.
  Synonyms: pipeline

• (noun): A length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point.

• (noun): A particular kind of product or merchandise.
  Example: "A nice line of shoes"
  Synonyms: product line, line of products, line of merchandise, business line, line of business

• (noun): The descendants of one individual.
  Synonyms: lineage, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

• (noun): A formation of people or things one beside another.
  Example: "The line of soldiers advanced with their bayonets fixed"; "they were arrayed in line of battle"; "the cast stood in line for the curtain call"

• (noun): A commercial organization serving as a common carrier.

• (noun): Text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen.
  Example: "The letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"

• (noun): A formation of people or things one behind another.
  Example: "The line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter"

• (noun): A conceptual separation or demarcation.
  Example: "There is a narrow line between sanity and insanity"
  Synonyms: dividing line, demarcation, contrast

• (noun): Mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it.
  Synonyms: production line, assembly line

• (verb): Cover the interior of (garments).
  Example: "Line the gloves"

• (noun): The methodical process of logical reasoning.
  Example: "I can't follow your line of reasoning"
  Synonyms: argumentation, logical argument, line of reasoning

• (noun): A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
  Synonyms: tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, melodic phrase

• (verb): Make a mark or lines on a surface.
  Example: "Draw a line"
  Synonyms: trace, draw, describe, delineate

• (noun): A telephone connection.
  Synonyms: telephone line, phone line, telephone circuit, subscriber line

• (noun): A short personal letter.
  Example: "Drop me a line when you get there"
  Synonyms: note, short letter, billet

• (noun): A mark that is long relative to its width.
  Example: "He drew a line on the chart"; "The substance produced characteristic lines on the spectroscope"

• (noun): A connected series of events or actions or developments.
  Synonyms: course

• (noun): Space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising.
  Synonyms: agate line

• (noun): In games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area.

• (verb): Be in line with; form a line along.
  Example: "Trees line the riverbank"
  Synonyms: run along

• (noun): A spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent.

• (noun): The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
  Example: "He's not in my line of business"
  Synonyms: occupation, business, job, line of work

• (verb): Mark with lines.
  Example: "Sorrow had lined his face"

• (noun): (often plural) a means of communication or access.
  Synonyms: channel, communication channel

• (verb): Fill plentifully.
  Example: "Line one's pockets"

Famous quotes containing the word line:

“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“What comes over a man, is it soul or mind
That to no limits and bounds he can stay confined?
You would say his ambition was to extend the reach
Clear to the Arctic of every living kind.
Why is his nature forever so hard to teach
That though there is no fixed line between wrong and right,
There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“I fear I agree with your friend in not liking all sermons. Some of them, one has to confess, are rubbish: but then I release my attention from the preacher, and go ahead in any line of thought he may have started: and his after-eloquence acts as a kind of accompaniment—like music while one is reading poetry, which often, to me, adds to the effect.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)