| 单词 | line |
| 释义 | Word Frequency line 1(laɪn) noun 1. a narrow continuous mark, as one made by a pencil, pen, or brush across a surface 2. such a mark cut into or raised from a surface 3. a thin indented mark or wrinkle 4. a straight or curved continuous trace having no breadth that is produced by a moving point 5. mathematics a. any straight one-dimensional geometrical element whose identity is determined by two points. A line segment lies between any two points on a line b. a set of points (x, y) that satisfies the equation y = mx + c, where m is the gradient and c is the intercept with the y-axis 6. a border or boundary the county line 7. sport a. a white or coloured band indicating a boundary or division on a field, track, etc b. a mark or imaginary mark at which a race begins or ends 8. American football a. line of scrimmage b. the players arranged in a row on either side of the line of scrimmage at the start of each play 9. a specified point of change or limit the dividing line between sanity and madness 10. a. the edge or contour of a shape, as in sculpture or architecture, or a mark on a painting, drawing, etc,defining or suggesting this b. the sum or type of such contours or marks, characteristic of a style or design the line of a draughtsman the line of a building 11. anything long, flexible, and thin, such as a wire or string a washing line a fishing line 12. a telephone connection a direct line to New York 13. a. a conducting wire, cable, or circuit for making connections between pieces of electricalapparatus, such as a cable for electric-power transmission, telecommunications, etc b. (as modifier) the line voltage 14. a system of travel or transportation, esp over agreed routes a shipping line 15. a company operating such a system 16. a route between two points on a railway 17. mainly British a. a railway track, including the roadbed, sleepers, etc b. one of the rails of such a track 18. New Zealand a roadway usually in a rural area 19. a course or direction of movement or advance the line of flight of a bullet 20. a course or method of action, behaviour, etc take a new line with him 21. a policy or prescribed course of action or way of thinking (often in the phrases bring or come into line) 22. a field of study, interest, occupation, trade, or profession this book is in your line 23. alignment; true (esp in the phrases in line, out of line) 24. one kind of product or article a nice line in hats 25. New Zealand a collection of bales of wool all of the one type 26. a row of persons or things a line of cakes on the conveyor belt 27. a chronological or ancestral series, esp of people a line of prime ministers 28. a row of words printed or written across a page or column 29. a unit of verse consisting of the number of feet appropriate to the metre being usedand written or printed with the words in a single row 30. a short letter; note just a line to say thank you 31. a piece of useful information or hint about something give me a line on his work 32. one of a number of narrow horizontal bands forming a television picture 33. physics a narrow band in an electromagnetic spectrum, resulting from a transition in an atom, ion, or molecule of a gas or plasma 34. music a. any of the five horizontal marks that make up the stave Compare space (sense 10)b. the musical part or melody notated on one such set c. a discernible shape formed by sequences of notes or musical sounds a meandering melodic line d. (in polyphonic music) a set of staves that are held together with a bracket or brace 35. a unit of magnetic flux equal to 1 maxwell 36. a defensive or fortified position, esp one that marks the most forward position in war or a national boundary the front line 37. line ahead 38. a formation adopted by a body or a number of military units when drawn up abreast 39. the combatant forces of certain armies and navies, excluding supporting arms 40. fencing one of four divisions of the target on a fencer's body, considered as areas to whichspecific attacks are made 41. the scent left by a fox 42. a. the equator (esp in the phrase crossing the line) b. any circle or arc on the terrestrial or celestial sphere 43. the amount of insurance written by an underwriter for a particular risk 44. US and Canadian a line of people, vehicles, etc, waiting for something Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): queue45. slang a portion of a powdered drug for snorting 46. slang something said for effect, esp to solicit for money, sex, etc he gave me his usual line 47. above the line 48. below the line 49. all along the line 50. do a line 51. draw the line 52. get a line on 53. hold the line 54. in line for 55. in line with 56. in the line of duty 57. lay on the line 58. shoot a line 59. step out of line 60. toe the line verb 61. (transitive) to mark with a line or lines 62. (transitive) to draw or represent with a line or lines 63. (transitive) to be or put as a border to tulips lined the lawns 64. to place in or form a row, series, or alignment Derived forms linable (ˈlinable) or lineable (ˈlineable) adjective lined adjective linelike (ˈlineˌlike) adjective liny (ˈliny) or liney (ˈliney) adjective Word origin C13: partly from Old French ligne, ultimately from Latin līnea, n use of līneus flaxen, from līnum flax; partly from Old English līn, ultimately also from Latin līnum flaxWord Frequency line 2(laɪn) verb (transitive) 1. to attach an inside covering to (a garment, curtain, etc), as for protection, to hide the seaming, or so that it should hang well 2. to cover or fit the inside of to line the walls with books 3. to fill plentifully a purse lined with money 4. to reinforce the back of (a book) with fabric, paper, etc Word origin C14: ultimately from Latin līnum flax, since linings were often made of linen |
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