'Line of lines' definitions:
Definition of 'Line of lines'
From: GCIDE
- Line \Line\, n. [OE. line, AS. l[imac]ne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See Linen.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Direction; as, the line of sight or vision. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Poet.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure. [1913 Webster]
- In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. --Broome. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. [1913 Webster]
- He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Math.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness. [1913 Webster]
- 10. The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline. [1913 Webster]
- Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 11. A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark. [1913 Webster]
- Though on his brow were graven lines austere. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. --Cleveland. [1913 Webster]
- 12. Lineament; feature; figure. "The lines of my boy's face." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 13. A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers. [1913 Webster]
- Unite thy forces and attack their lines. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 14. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 15. A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line. [1913 Webster]
- 16. (Geog.) (a) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map. (b) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line. [1913 Webster]
- 17. A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline. [1913 Webster]
- 18. (Script.) (a) A measuring line or cord. [1913 Webster]
- He marketh it out with a line. --Is. xliv. 13. (b) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode. [1913 Webster]
- The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. --Ps. xvi. 6. (c) Instruction; doctrine. [1913 Webster]
- Their line is gone out through all the earth. --Ps. xix. 4. [1913 Webster]
- 19. (Mach.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 20. The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad. [1913 Webster]
- 21. (Mil.) (a) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column. (b) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 22. (Fort.) (a) A trench or rampart. (b) pl. Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy. [1913 Webster]
- 23. pl. (Shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections. [1913 Webster]
- 24. (Mus.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed. [1913 Webster]
- 25. (Stock Exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber. [1913 Webster]
- 26. (Trade) 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. --McElrath. [1913 Webster]
- 27. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name. [1913 Webster]
- 28. pl. The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
- 29. A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch. [1913 Webster]
- Hard lines, hard lot. --C. Kingsley. [See Def. 18.]
- Line breeding (Stockbreeding), breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother.
- Line conch (Zool.), a spiral marine shell ({Fasciolaria distans}), of Florida and the West Indies. It is marked by narrow, dark, revolving lines.
- Line engraving. (a) Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, cut with the burin upon copper or similar material; also, a plate so engraved. (b) A picture produced by printing from such an engraving.
- Line of battle. (a) (Mil. Tactics) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver. (b) (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement.
- Line of battle ship. See Ship of the line, below.
- Line of beauty (Fine Arts),an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; -- differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth).
- Line of centers. (Mach.) (a) A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. (b) A line which determines a dead center. See {Dead center}, under Dead.
- Line of dip (Geol.), a line in the plane of a stratum, or part of a stratum, perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon.
- Line of fire (Mil.), the direction of fire.
- Line of force (Physics), any line in a space in which forces are acting, so drawn that at every point of the line its tangent is the direction of the resultant of all the forces. It cuts at right angles every equipotential surface which it meets. Specifically (Magnetism), a line in proximity to a magnet so drawn that any point in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point. --Faraday.
- Line of life (Palmistry), a line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life.
- Line of lines. See Gunter's line.
- Line of march. (Mil.) (a) Arrangement of troops for marching. (b) Course or direction taken by an army or body of troops in marching.
- Line of operations, that portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. --H. W. Halleck.
- Line of sight (Firearms), the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object.
- Line tub (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled.
- Mason and Dixon's line, Mason-Dixon line, the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run before the Revolution (1764-1767) by two English astronomers named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. In an extended sense, the line between the free and the slave States; as, below the Mason-Dixon line, i.e. in the South.
- On the line, (a) on a level with the eye of the spectator; -- said of a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures. (b) at risk (dependent upon success) in a contest or enterprise; as, the survival of the company is on the line in this project.
- Right line, a straight line; the shortest line that can be drawn between two points.
- Ship of the line, formerly, a ship of war large enough to have a place in the line of battle; a vessel superior to a frigate; usually, a seventy-four, or three-decker; -- called also line of battle ship or battleship. --Totten.
- To cross the line, to cross the equator, as a vessel at sea.
- To give a person line, to allow him more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him, like a hooked fish that swims away with the line.
- Water line (Shipbuilding), the outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'line of lines'
From: GCIDE
- Gunter's line \Gun"ter's line`\ A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and {line of numbers}. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Line of lines'
- Line,
- Lined,
- Lining,
- On the line,
- To line up,
- between the lines,
- in line,
- in line with,
- line up,
- lined up,
- lines,
- out of line,
- A straight line,
- Balk line,
- Base line,
- Bee line,
- Blank line,
- Broken line,
- Bulked line,
- Casting line,
- Center Line,
- Chalk line,
- Circular lines,
- Clew line,
- Cod line,
- Complex of lines,
- Congruency of lines,
- Contour line,
- Correction line,
- Cotidal lines,
- County Line,
- Dandy line,
- Date line,
- Datum line,
- Derby Line,
- Drag line,
- Equinoctial line,
- Fancy line,
- Fiducial line,
- Fish line,
- Fishing line,
- Fraunhofer lines,
- Geodetic line,
- Ground line,
- Gunter's line,
- Hair line,
- Hard lines,
- Helispherical line,
- Horizontal line,
- Hour line,
- Indented line,
- Isentropic lines,
- Isoclinal lines,
- Isodiabatic lines,
- Isodynamic lines,
- Isogonic lines,
- Isometric lines,
- Isopiestic lines,
- Isorropic line,
- Isothermal line,
- Lateral line,
- Lead line,
- Ledger line,
- Leech line,
- Leger line,
- Level line,
- Life line,
- Line breeding,
- Line conch,
- Line engraving,
- Line of battle,
- Line of beauty,
- Line of centers,
- Line of collimation,
- Line of dip,
- Line of fire,
- Line of flotation,
- Line of force,
- Line of incidence,
- Line of levels,
- Line of life,
- Line of march,
- Line of nodes,
- Line of operations,
- Line of sight,
- Line of striction,
- Line of syzygies,
- Line shaft,
- Line tub,
- Line-up,
- Lined gold,
- Load line,
- Log line,
- Loxodromic line,
- Lubber's line,
- Maginot line,
- Magistral line,
- Mean line,
- Median line,
- Nobert's lines,
- Nodal line,
- Picket line,
- Pitch line,
- Plumb line,
- Plummet line,
- Rear line,
- Reef line,
- Regiment of the line,
- Right line,
- Rush line,
- Segment of a line,
- Service line,
- Set line,
- Ship of the line,
- Side line,
- Slab line,
- Snow line,
- Sounding line,
- Space line,
- Spider lines,
- Spilling line,
- State Line,
- Strategic line,
- Stray line,
- Stream line,
- Telpher line,
- To cross the line,
- To draw a line,
- To give line,
- To line bees,
- To read between the lines,
- Town Line,
- Trigonometrical lines,
- Tripping line,
- Trolley line,
- Trunk line,
- Up-line,
- Vanishing line,
- Vertical line,
- Vortex line,
- Water line,
- Wave line,
- West Line,
- White line,
- Zollner's lines,
- a-line,
- aclinic line,
- actor's line,
- added line,
- adonic line,
- agate line,
- agonic line,
- assembly line,
- bank line,
- bar line,
- battle line,
- blood line,
- bottom line,
- boundary line,
- brake lining,
- branch line,
- bread line,
- bus line,
- business line,
- by-line,
- checkout line,
- chorus line,
- chow line,
- city line,
- color line,
- colour line,
- command line,
- conga line,
- credit line,
- cylindrical lining,
- danger line,
- delay line,
- demarcation line,
- direct line,
- district line,
- dividing line,
- dotted line,
- draw a line,
- draw the line,
- drive line,
- drop a line,
- drop line,
- fall in line,
- family line,
- fault line,
- feeder line,
- fence line,
- field line,
- finish line,
- finishing line,
- firing line,
- flight line,
- foul line,
- front line,
- frown line,
- fuel line,
- furnace lining,
- gag line,
- gas line,
- geodesic line,
- get a line,
- goal line,
- green line,
- hand line,
- hanoverian line,
- hard line,
- harpoon line,
- heart line,
- hold the line,
- hot line,
- isoclinic line,
- isogonal line,
- isogonic line,
- isometric line,
- keep in line,
- lancastrian line,
- land line,
- laugh line,
- lay on the line,
- line backer,
- line block,
- line coach,
- line double,
- line drawing,
- line drive,
- line feed,
- line item,
- line judge,
- line management,
- line of business,
- line of control,
- line of credit,
- line of defence,
- line of defense,
- line of descent,
- line of destiny,
- line of duty,
- line of fate,
- line of flight,
- line of gab,
- line of heart,
- line of inquiry,
- line of latitude,
- line of longitude,
- line of merchandise,
- line of numbers,
- line of poetry,
- line of products,
- line of questioning,
- line of reasoning,
- line of saturn,
- line of scrimmage,
- line of shadows,
- line of succession,
- line of thought,
- line of verse,
- line of vision,
- line of work,
- line officer,
- line organisation,
- line organization,
- line personnel,
- line printer,
- line roulette,
- line score,
- line single,
- line spectrum,
- line squall,
- line storm,
- line triple,
- line worker,
- lined snake,
- love line,
- lubber line,
- main line,
- melodic line,
- mensal line,
- mooring line,
- neat line,
- new line,
- off-line,
- old line,
- on-line,
- opening line,
- party line,
- petrol line,
- phone line,
- pipe line,
- plantagenet line,
- plimsoll line,
- plot line,
- poverty line,
- power line,
- private line,
- product line,
- production line,
- program line,
- property line,
- punch line,
- put on the line,
- rail line,
- railroad line,
- railway line,
- read between the lines,
- reception line,
- red line,
- regression line,
- rhumb line,
- rivet line,
- royal line,
- sash line,
- scratch line,
- scrimmage line,
- sewer line,
- shoot a line,
- short line,
- siegfried line,
- silver lining,
- snap line,
- spectrum line,
- squall line,
- staff line,
- starting line,
- static line,
- stay in line,
- steam line,
- steamship line,
- stepped line,
- straight line,
- streetcar line,
- string line,
- subscriber line,
- supply line,
- tag line,
- telegraph line,
- telephone line,
- ticket line,
- timber line,
- toe the line,
- toll line,
- top of the line,
- towing line,
- transit line,
- transmission line,
- trap line,
- trawl line,
- tree line,
- trend line,
- trip line,
- unemployment line,
- verse line,
- waiting line,
- wats line,
- yard line,
- A deep line of operations,
- Center Line, MI,
- County Line, AL,
- Derby Line, VT,
- Deviation of the line of the vertical,
- Foul ball lines,
- International Date Line,
- Line of battle ship,
- Load water line,
- Mason and Dixon's line,
- Pipe-line,
- Polar equation of a line,
- Right-lined,
- Springing line of an arch,
- Spurling-line,
- State Line City,
- State Line City, IN,
- State Line, ID,
- State Line, MS,
- Straight-lined,
- To give a person line,
- Town Line, NY,
- West Line, MO,
- acoustic delay line,
- baulk-line,
- command line interface,
- digital subscriber line,
- drive line system,
- electrical line of force,
- electromagnetic delay line,
- equity credit line,
- hard-line,
- hook line and sinker,
- in-line skate,
- lateral line organ,
- light water line,
- line of least resistance,
- line one's pockets,
- line-shooter,
- line-shooting,
- lined tree lizard,
- loop-line,
- magnetic line of force,
- mason and dixon line,
- night-line,
- off-line equipment,
- off-line operation,
- old line state,
- old-line,
- on-line database,
- personal credit line,
- personal line of credit,
- refractory-lined,
- silk-lined,
- sonic delay line,
- well-lined,
- off-line vs on-line offline off linepredicate,
- on-line vs off-line online on linepredicate,
- Clew-line block,
- Mason-Dixon line,
- Projection of a straight line of a plane,
- Rib-band lines,
- Water-line model,
- Wave-line system,
- Wave-line theory,
- line-at-a-time printer,
- line-drive double,
- line-drive single,
- line-drive triple,
- long-line fishing,
- six-lined racerunner,
- straight-line method,
- Salix-Beauty Line Park,
- four-lined leaf bug,
- four-lined plant bug,
- straight-line method of depreciation,
- Salix-Beauty Line Park, PA