Line is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LINE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to mark out with slender, continuous marks
• stand or be positioned at intervals along
• mark or cover with lines
• cover the inside surface of (a container or garment) with a layer of different material
• form a layer on the inside surface of (an area); cover as if with a lining
• To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
• To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
• To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
• To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
• To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
• To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
• To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.
• be in line with; form a line along
• cover the interior of
• make a mark or lines on a surface
• fill plentifully
• reinforce with fabric
• mark with lines
NOUN:
• a long, narrow mark or band
• a straight or curved continuous extent of length without breadth.
• a direct course
• a furrow or wrinkle in the skin, especially on the face
• a contour or outline considered as a feature of design or composition
• (on a map or graph) a curve connecting all points having a specified common property.
• a line marking the starting or finishing point in a race
• (in football, hockey, etc.) the goal line
• the equator.
• a notional limit or boundary
• each of the very narrow horizontal sections forming a television picture.
• a narrow range of the spectrum that is noticeably brighter or darker than the adjacent parts.
• the level of the base of most letters, such as h and x, in printing and writing.
• denoting an image consisting of lines and solid areas, with no gradation of tone
• each of (usually five) horizontal lines forming a stave in musical notation.
• a sequence of notes or tones forming an instrumental or vocal melody
• a dose of a powdered narcotic drug, especially cocaine, laid out in a line ready to be taken.
• a length of cord, rope, wire, or other material serving a particular purpose
• a telephone connection or service
• a railway track
• a branch or route of a railway system
• a company that provides ships, aircraft, or buses on particular routes on a regular basis
• a horizontal row of written or printed words
• a part of a poem or song forming one row of written or printed words
• an amount of text or number of repetitions of a sentence written out as a school punishment
• a row of people or things
• a queue.
• a connected series of people following one another in time (used especially of several generations of a family)
• a series of related things
• a range of commercial goods
• an area or branch of activity
• a direction, course, or channel
• a manner of doing or thinking about something
• an agreed approach; a policy
• a false or exaggerated remark or story
• a connected series of military fieldworks or defences facing an enemy force
• an arrangement of soldiers or ships in a column or line formation; a line of battle.
• regular army regiments (as opposed to auxiliary forces or household troops).
• long narrow mark
• Flax; linen.
• The longer and finer fiber of flax.
• A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
• A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
• The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
• Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
• A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
• A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
• A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
• Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
• That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
• The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
• A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
• Lineament; feature; figure.
• A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
• A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
• A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
• A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
• The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
• A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
• A measuring line or cord.
• That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
• Instruction; doctrine.
• The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
• The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
• A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
• The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
• A trench or rampart.
• Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
• Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
• One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
• A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.
• The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
• The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
• A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
• a formation of people or things one beside another
• a mark that is long relative to its width
• a formation of people or things one behind another
• a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
• text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
• a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
• a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
• a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
• a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
• a connected series of events or actions or developments
• a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
• a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
• a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
• the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
• acting in conformity
• the descendants of one individual
• something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
• in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
• (often plural) a means of communication or access
• a particular kind of product or merchandise
• a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
• space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
• the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
• a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
• persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
• a short personal letter
• a conceptual separation or distinction
• mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
• the words of an actor's part in a play or film
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to mark with lines (slender, continuous marks)

Words related to LINE

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Words that contain LINE

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How to use LINE in a sentence

• Line a well-buttered baking-dish with a rich pie-paste.
• Like men, horses show what they are in the shape, the size, the line, the character of the head.
• Discovery is in line with the south end of the Bluff from the camp and we are near the 79th parallel.
• Still we cannot entirely ignore the fact that, in spite of the lack of orders on the subject, traces of a line ahead are to be detected in the earliest action of the war.
• After a time, back of the line, instruction schools were opened in bomb making and bomb throwing.
• Down into the cellar passed a long line of descending men, dropping to its floor in rapid succession.
• It was invariably either that a troop train was passing up the line and we must wait for it to go by, or else part of the engine had fallen off.
• This event, which will hardly excite any attention in America, is deemed here the most important one, which has taken place in their civil line during the present century.
• With clenched fists and blazing eyes Erebus, taking the line of the least resistance, sought the princess.
• But Charlotte distinctly tells us that her brother never knew that his sisters had published a line.
• We are in the full sweep of this movement along the whole line and it has not yet reached its flood.
• Wilson had a monopoly of the raw material in the history line.
• The more he was put off, the more he was bent on reaching the firing line.
• Why she could not and did not attempt to determine, psychological analysis being rather out of her line.
• Outside the bay the ships formed into a column of three abreast, making a line nine miles in length.
• There were at least thirty-five water carts in line waiting their turn to fill up at this presumably good supply.
• The inner surface of the rectangular inclosing wall is marked by a line in the interior of the tunnel.
• A line is drawn down the paper and one-half of the outline and decoration worked out.
• Every company which had reached the ridge had joined the fighting line.
• It has been recognized by a long line of decisions that it is constitutional to grant such aid to railroads, but it may be questioned in almost any other industry.
• When the girls first took up their positions in the line, they believed they would never grow weary of looking about them.
• At last the detachment was halted and the line faced about.
• While I cannot but hope for one line from you to say that you are recovering.
• Then remove the line three feet from the first row, and so on, until the planting is completed.
• Later, in the note-book of 1812, the first line of the poem appears, in connection with a scheme for an overture.

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