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  • 41line — I. /laɪn / (say luyn) noun 1. a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface. 2. something resembling a traced line, as a band of colour, a seam, a furrow, etc.: lines of stratification in… …

  • 42line — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a continuous mark or band made on a surface (drew a line). 2 use of lines in art, esp. draughtsmanship or engraving (boldness of line). 3 a thing resembling such a mark esp. a furrow or wrinkle. 4 Mus. a each of (usu. five)… …

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  • 43line — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English; partly from Anglo French lingne, from Latin linea, from feminine of lineus made of flax, from linum flax; partly from Old English līne; akin to Old English līn flax more at linen Date:… …

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  • 44line — Synonyms and related words: DMZ, Indian file, L, MO, Spenserian stanza, WATS, WATS line, Zeitgeist, abut, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, aceldama, acknowledgment, acquiescence, acquire, action, activity, adaptation, adaption,… …

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  • 45line — I n 1. rule, bar, score, underline, underscore, hairline; mark, stroke, streak, dash, hyphen, virgule, diagonal; marking, inscription, inscript, engraving, incision; scratch, notch, slash, etch, hatching. 2. band, stripe, strip, belt, zone, layer …

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  • 46line — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. interline, face; delineate. n. mark; cord, string; crease, wrinkle; verse, note; route, system; vocation, calling; lineage; row, file. See indication, filament, poetry, business, ancestry,… …

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  • 47verse — I. noun Etymology: Middle English vers, fers, from Anglo French vers & Old English fers, both from Latin versus, literally, turning, from vertere to turn more at worth Date: before 12th century 1. a line of metrical writing 2. a. (1) metrical… …

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  • 48verse — noun 1》 writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.     ↘archaic a line of poetry. 2》 a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song. 3》 each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture.… …

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  • 49Line of syzygies — Syzygy Syz y*gy (s[i^]z [i^]*j[y^]), n.; pl. {Syzygies} ( j[i^]z). [L. syzygia a joining together, conjunction, Gr. syzygi a; sy n with + zeygny nai to join, zygo n yoke: cf. F. syzygie. See {Yoke}, n.] 1. (Astron.) The point of an orbit, as of… …

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  • 50verse — Synonyms and related words: English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Spenserian stanza, acquaint, adage, advertise, advertise of, advise, alba, ana, anacreontic, anacrusis,… …

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