lines

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laɪnz/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪnz

Noun

lines

  1. plural of line

Noun

lines pl (plural only)

  1. (film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.
    I have yet to learn my lines.
  2. (fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
  3. (shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
  4. (education) 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
  5. (US) The reins with which a horse is guided by its driver.

Derived terms

Verb

lines

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of line

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lines”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

From lesbi or lesbian. Compare binan.

Noun

lines (first-person possessive linesku, second-person possessive linesmu, third-person possessive linesnya)

  1. (gay slang) a lesbian woman

Latin

Verb

linēs

  1. second-person singular future active indicative of linō

Spanish

Noun

lines m pl

  1. plural of line
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