lines
See also: Lines
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laɪnz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪnz
Noun
lines pl (plural only)
- (film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.
- I have yet to learn my lines.
- (fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
- (shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
- (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
- (US) The reins with which a horse is guided by its driver.
Derived terms
Verb
lines
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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