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单词 dividing line
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dividing line

Word forms: plural dividing lines
1. countable noun [usually singular]
A dividing line is a distinction or set of distinctions which marks the difference between two types of thing or two groups.
There's a very thin dividing line between joviality and hysteria. [+ between]
2. singular noun
The dividing line between two areas is the boundary between them.
...the street that was the dividing line between San Francisco and the fields ofthe Presidio. [+ between]

dividing line in British English

(dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ laɪn)
noun
1. 
a quality that distinguishes one thing from another
What is the dividing line between 'pretty' and 'beautiful'??
Often the dividing line is blurred.
There's a very thin dividing line between joviality and hysteria.
2. 
a boundary

Examples of 'dividing line' in a sentence
dividing line

All of the participants on both sides of the dividing line playing the same nihilistic game.
Forbes, Bryan THE ENDLESS GAME
August 1919. She had thought of it then as the dividing line between the true end of war and the beginning of a new era of peace.
Appiganesi, Lisa DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
There's a thin dividing line between what he tells them to do, and what they do knowing he'd be in favour.
Barnard, Robert POLITICAL SUICIDE
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