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Definition: Line |
LineNoun1. A formation of people or things one beside another; "the line of soldiers advanced with their bayonets fixed"; "they were arrayed in line of battle"; "the cast stood in line for the curtain call". 2. A mark that is long relative to its width; "He drew a line on the chart"; "The substance produced characteristic lines on the spectroscope". 3. A formation of people or things one behind another; "the line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter". 4. A length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point. 5. Text consisting of a row of words written across a page or column or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines". 6. A single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum. 7. A fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops); "they attacked the enemy's line". 8. Methodical reasoning; "I can't follow your line of reasoning". 9. A conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power. 10. : a connected series of events or actions or developments; "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available". 11. : a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent. 12. : a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles". 13. : a pipe used to transport liquids or gases; "a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport". 14. : railroad track and roadbed. 15. : a telephone connection. 16. : acting in conformity; "in line with" or "he got out of line" or "toe the line". 17. : the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors". 18. : something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible; "a washing line". 19. : the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business". 20. : in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area. 21. : (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms". 22. : a particular kind of product or merchandise; "a nice line of shoes". 23. : a commercial organization serving as a common carrier. 24. : space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising. 25. : the maximum credit that a customer is allowed. 26. : a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven". 27. : a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there". 28. : a conceptual separation or demarcation: "there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity". 29. : mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it. Verb1. Be in line with; form a line along; of trees along a river, etc. 2. Cover the interior of, as of garments: "line the gloves". 3. Make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand". 4. Mark with lines; "sorrow had lined his face". 5. Mark with lines, draw lines on; "The paper was lined". 6. Fill plentifully; "line one's pockets". 7. Reinforce with fabric; of books. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "line" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Line 1. |
Business | A class or group of products or merchandise, such as is carried by a wholesale or retail merchant. For example, a merchant may carry a -- of shoes, or a -- of tools. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Unit of measurement for advertising space, one column wide and 1/14 inch deep. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Chemical Industry | It has a series of fine -- engraved on. . embossing c calenders. These lines are engraved to form an angle with the construction of the cloth. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A device for transferring electrical energy from one point to another, such as a transmission line. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The portion of a data circuit external to data-circuit terminating equipment(DCE)that connects the DCE to a data switching exchange(DSE), that connects a DCE to one or more other DCEs, or that connects a DSE to another DSE. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The visible or recordable path traced on the screen or target by the moving spot. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Requires visual concentration when checking grades of. . . on processing --. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A cord or wire used toalign the young vines at planting or to draw a straight line on the land. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | A hackled bast fiber, generally flax. . . more than 10 inches long. -- is distinguished from tow, which is bast fiber less than 10 inches long. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | An individual's field of intellectual, artistic, or business activity or interest. . . . A field of business or professionnal activity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Line Trade, business. What line are you in? What trade or profession are you of? "In the book line"- i.e. the book trade. This is a Scripture phrase. "The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage." The allusion is to drawing a line to mark out the lot of each tribe, hence line became the synonym of lot, and lot means position or destiny; and hence a calling, trade, or profession. Commercial travellers use the word frequently to signify the sort of goods which they have to dispose of; as, one travels "in the hardware line," another "in the drapery line," or "grocery line," etc. Line (The). The equator. (See Crossing The Line. ) The deep-sea line. A long line marked at every five fathoms, for sounding the depth of the sea. The line. All regiments of infantry except the foot-guards, the rifle brigade, the marines, the militia, and the volunteers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Passage or tube that confines and conducts fluid. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A pipe used for conveying fluids. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | A sexually-reproducing population derived from a common parentage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | In artillery and naval gunfire support, a spotting, or an observation, used by a spotter or an observer to indicate that a burst(s)occurred on the spotting line. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The limit of a surface; a length without breadth; an outline; a contour b. The course in which anything proceeds, or which anyone takes; direction given or assured c. A cable, rope, chain, or other flexible device for transmitting pull d. To line pieces up in order to couple them together. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A circuit or channel connecting two exchanges or two switching devices; a circuit capable of being switched at both ends and provided with the necessary terminating and signalling equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Comes partly from Old English lIne. Definition: Food line. Context: They usually mention the work place in their conversation, so simplification of words is necessary. Social Source: Carson Dining Hall. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | LINE. To get a man into a line, i.e. to divert his attention by a ridiculous or absurd story. To humbug. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Sports & Leisure | The four theoretical areas of the target: upper inside and outside, and lower inside and outside. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word line apparently derives from the Latin linum, meaning flax plant from which linen is produced; at one time, a stretched linen thread was the most reliable way to determine a straight line. Also see liner and lining.
The word line can refer to a queue area.
Electrical engineering
In electrical engineering, a line is, more generally, any circuit (or loop) of an electrical system. This electric circuit loop (or electrical network), consists of electrical elements (or components) connected directly by conductor terminals to other devices in series.
In telecommunications, a telephone line is a single-user circuit on a telephone communications system.
Mathematics
A line, or straight line, is, roughly speaking, an (infinitely) thin, (infinitely) long, straight geometrical object. Given two points, one can always find exactly one line that passes through the two points; the line provides the shortest connection between the points. Two different lines can intersect in at most one point; two different planes can intersect in at most one line. This intuitive concept of a line can be formalized in various ways.
If geometry is developed axiomatically (as in Euclid's Elements and later in David Hilbert's Foundations of Geometry), then lines are not defined at all, but characterized axiomatically by their properties. "Everything that satisfies the axioms for a line is a line." While Euclid did define a line as "length without breadth", he did not use this rather obscure definition in his later development.
In Euclidean space Rn (and analogously in all other vector spaces), we define a line L as a subset of the form
where a and b are given vectorss in Rn with b non-zero. The vector b describes the direction of the line, and a is a point on the line. Different choices of a and b can yield the same line.
One can show that in R2, every line L is described by a linear equation of the form
with fixed real coefficients a, b and c such that a and b are not both zero. An important property of these lines is their slope.
More abstractly, one usually thinks of the real line as the prototype of a line, and assumes that the points on a line stand in a one-to-one correspondence with the real numbers. However, one could also use the hyperreal numbers for this purpose, or even the long line of topology.
The "straightness" of a line, interpreted as the property that it minimizes distances between its points, can be generalized and leads to the concept of geodesics on differentiable manifolds.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Line."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The lines used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry are by default straight, but may have many different shapes. (Care must sometimes be taken to distinguish these shapes from actual charges, such as "a mount [or triple mount] in base," or, particularly in German heraldry, different kinds of embattled from castle walls.) The most common include the following:
- indented: with small zigzags like a saw's edge.
- dentilly: similar to indented, but with one of the sides of the points perpendicular and the other angled (of more recent vintage).
- dancetty: a deep zigzag with (usually) three points; in early days no distinction was drawn between this and indented. (A fess dancetty is called a dance.)
- rayonné: as indented, but with curved instead of straight lines.
- wavy (rarely called undy): like a sine curve.
- engrailed: a series of half-circles, with the lobes pointing towards the chief or dexter as a line of division, or towards the interior of an ordinary.
- invected: the reverse of engrailed.
- nebuly: a series of mushroom shapes, representing stylized clouds.
- potenty: like a row of capital T's ("potent" means a crutch).
- embattled: topped with a row of small squares, like a battlement.
- When a fess is embattled, only the topmost edge is altered. If both edges are to be embattled, the term embattled-counter-embattled (or counter-embattled, as in the arms of Sir Cecil Denniston Burney) is used. In this case the lines are parallel. If gaps face gaps, the term bretessé is used.
- embattled grady: has one small square atop another.
- raguly: as with embattled, but slanted instead of orthogonal.
- dovetailed: as the name implies; unlike embattled, gaps face gaps.
Exotic line shapes
The heraldry of the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA) includes a "per fess indented of five points," but specifying the number of points is unusual if not otherwise unheard-of.[1]
The arms of the Free State in South Africa show "a chief dancetty, the peaks terminating in merlons," and so might be called a combination of dancetty and embattled.
The arms of Schellenberg, in Liechtenstein, provide an example of embattled "with three battlements."
Some examples also exist of urdy, where the line is in the shapes of the upside-down and rightside-up "shields" of vair.
The arms of Carmichael show a fess "wreathy," which may or may not be strictly speaking a line of partition, but it does modify the fess; the coat is not blazoned as a "wreath in fess".
The 20th century saw some innovations in lines of partition. Erablé, a series of alternating upside-down and rightside-up maple-leaves (though a typically Canadian line of partition, the College of Arms in London has used it in a few grants [1] and a Finnish line of partition, invented by Kaj Cajander, which the Canadian Heraldic Authority coined the term sapine to blazon, resembles spruce twigs (though the arms of Naas and Altmelon in Austria show a similar line)[1]). Other 20th-century examples of lines, or things akin to lines, include the 1990 grant to Albersdorf-Prebuch, also in Austria, in which the upper line of the fess takes the form of fruit, the bottom of vine-leaves. (It is debatable what the distinction is between such lines, and examples such as the Austrian arms of Bierbaum am Auersbach, in which three pears grow from a shakefork.)[1]
South Africa's Heraldic Authority has developed the line of partition serpentine, which is rather like wavy, but with only one "wave".[1] Similar is the German "im Schlangenschnitt" (snake-wise).
Chiefs and fesses are sometimes seen arched, though there is some debate as to whether or not this a line of partition.
Some mentions of a line "crested" or "wavy crested" exist (in the form of stylised "cresting" waves), and while one source[1] thinks it might be an SCA invention, SCA has actually rejected this line[1].
A shield horizontally and vertically divided into red (upper left and lower right) and silver with sawedged lines would be blazoned: Quarterly indented gules and argent.
Chevrons can be topped with a fleur-de-lys, and ordinaries with a non-straight border (particularly if they are dancetty or engrailed) can have the points topped with demi fleurs-de-lys. In some reference works flory-counter-flory is treated like a line of partition, even though strictly speaking it is not.
In Scotland lines of partition are often used to modify a bordure to difference the arms of a cadet from the chief of the house.
Reference
- Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Line (heraldry)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LINE | English | Long interspersed nuclear element | Biology & Biotechnology |
LINE | French | Séquence répétée dispersée longue | Biology & Biotechnology |
| LIA | English | Line immunoAssay | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LineSynonyms: agate line (n), air (n), ancestry (n), argumentation (n), assembly line (n), bank line (n), blood (n), blood line (n), bloodline (n), business (n), business line (n), cable (n), channel (n), communication channel (n), contrast (n), course (n), crease (n), credit line (n), crinkle (n), demarcation (n), descent (n), dividing line (n), furrow (n), job (n), line of business (n), line of credit (n), line of descent (n), line of merchandise (n), line of products (n), line of reasoning (n), line of work (n), lineage (n), logical argument (n), melodic line (n), melodic phrase (n), melody (n), note (n), occupation (n), origin (n), parentage (n), pedigree (n), personal credit line (n), personal line of credit (n), phone line (n), pipeline (n), product line (n), production line (n), rail line (n), railway line (n), seam (n), short letter (n), stock (n), strain (n), telephone line (n), transmission line (n), tune (n), wrinkle (n), delineate (v), describe (v), draw (v), outline (v), run along (v), trace (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Business | Part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career. |
Connection | Bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string; (filament). |
Continuity | Rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade. |
Pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of ancestors; strain. | |
Filament | Noun: filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle, vein; hair, capillament, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet, venula, venule. |
Indication | Mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick. |
Measurement | Measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers; gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo. |
Paternity | House, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. |
Poetry | Canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe. |
Posterity | Straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture. |
Writing | Stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Line |
| Non-English Usage: "Line" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Frisian (line). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Are you sure this line is clean (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Bet you've heard that line often enough (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) Have I stepped over some line in the sands of coolness with you, because excuse me if somebody doesn't know the secret handshake with you. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) Bottom line, she tries to blackmail me, I'll drop her out a higher window (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) | |
Lyrics | Pick up the phone call up the line (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas) Oh oh Telephone Line, give me some time, I'm living in twilight (Telephone Line; performing artist: ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA) It's gotta be the right kind line (Speed Kills; performing artist: 10CC) On the seduction line (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC) Girl, you've been givin' me that line so many times (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Clever | Incontinence hot line. Can you hold please? (references; author: unknown) Michigan: First Line Of Defense From The Canadians (references; author: unknown) Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line. (references; author: unknown) Life lesson: There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness. (references; author: unknown) It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Macon County Line (1974) When the Line Goes Through (1973) Death Line (1972) Interrupted Line (1972) 17 Days Down the Line (1972) | |
Song Titles | Rock Island Line, The (performing artist: Lonnie Skiffle Group Donegan) I Walk The Line (performing artist: Johnny Cash) Line in track 13 (performing artist: Leo Kotke) Can't You Line 'Em (performing artist: Leadbelly) Rock Island Line (performing artist: Leadbelly) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured is a proton beam from the brain during CT scans. Using dozens of CT slices, a computer produced this three-dimensional representation of the eyes and optic nerves (blue and green). The brain stem (green) , and the tumor (red). The yellow line shows the proton beam field-shaping aperture. Credit: unknown photographer. |  | The image shows a close-up of a patient's body prior to radiation treatment. A lighted scale is projected onto the body to exactly line up the treatment with the tumor site. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | People standing in food line in Laredo, Texas, following the Rio Grande flood of 1954. Credit: CDC. |  | Line graph showing AIDS Cases by Exposure Category and Year of Report 1985-1996, United States. Credit: CDC. |
 | Plane table setup in shoal water - legs driven about 6" into sand Note rodman slogging ashore in line with alidade Combined operations party of H. A. Paton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Sounding within surf line with rowed skiff. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Looking from the dune line to the north at Delaware Seashore State Park. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A Northern Gannet, somewhat north of its normal range, tangled in fishing line and drowned. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Baseline measurements on the lagoon ice - note stakes along line. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | "Ice Crystals Formed on a Line." In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume II, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 360. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Line of Chairs" by Ian Archambeau Commentary: "A line of chairs. If your going to download the picture it would be cool if you could leave a comment why, thanks." | "Straight Line" by John Hong Commentary: "Straight Line." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Typical 1950's digital spaceship sounds within a repetitive bass line. | | Syncopated bass line with keyboard glissandi. |
| Fast xylophone line with piano melody and various descending glissandi. | | Rhythmic bass line and shaker for an active guitar solo. |
| Rapid bass line moving through octaves with lots of flying object sounds. | | Driving bass line with keyboard chords and synthesized melody. |
| Constant bass line with guitar harmonics and digital percussion accompaniment. | | Double-time bass line with a strong backbeat and cliché ending. |
| A smooth jazz piece with flute playing over a walking bass line. | | Swing-influenced bass line with upbeat accompaniment and high keyboard. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Apelles | Not a day without a line. |
G.k. Chesterton | Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. |
Horace Mann | Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications. |
Jules Renard | A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. |
MoliFre | I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. |
Seneca | I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. |
Theodore Roosevelt | Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard. |
Will Rogers | If you want a line on a man, ask somebody that works with him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | This slowness and aversion in the people to quit their old constitutions, has, in the many revolutions which have been seen in this kingdom, in this and former ages, still kept us to, or, after some interval of fruitless attempts, still brought us back again to our old legislative of king, lords and commons: and whatever provocations have made the crown be taken from some of our princes heads, they never carried the people so far as to place it in another line. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In the section of the evacuated zone lying to the north of a line, from East to West (shown by a red line on map No. 4 which is annexed to the present Treaty). (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | When the cloud of dust had cleared away, and the line was once more visible, we saw with thankful hearts that the child and his deliverer were safe |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They formed a line of half a mile |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The sea had fallen below the line of seawrack on the shallow side of the breakwater and already the tide was running out fast along the foreshore |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom looked down the line of tents and he saw Ruthie and Winfield standing in front of a tent in decorous conversation with someone inside |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | 0.06 White line for crow fence |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The cells that line the alveoli are called epithelial cells. (references) | |
Neuroleptics are the first line of treatment for schizophrenia. (references) | ||
A line graph that records urinary bladder pressure at various volumes. (references) | ||
Business | Ukraine's wire line network is far from optimal. (references) | |
Services are two-way and one-way with phone line return. (references) | ||
The transmission line to Colombia has a 600 MW load capacity. (references) | ||
Children | Uruguay | INAME also operates a confidential hot line for children who are victims of domestic abuse. (references) |
Belize | The NOPCA instituted a nationwide telephone help line to encourage discourse and reduce abuse. (references) | |
Taiwan | In January a hot line was established to accept complaints of child abuse and offer counseling. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | Television stations censor programming in line with government guidelines. (references) |
Luxembourg | While independent, all but one have an editorial line slanted toward a major political party. (references) | |
Mexico | Accordingly the editorial line of some key news organizations remained biased in favor of the Government. (references) | |
Discrimination | Brazil | The Secretariat also continued to operate a hot line for complaints of prejudice, discrimination, or other crimes based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin. (references) |
Economic History | Austria | It's a fine line to walk. (references) |
Benin | Some forests line the banks of rivers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nauru | Citizenship and inheritance rights are traced through the female line. (references) |
China | In March, Beijing authorities claimed that their hot line received nearly 120 calls per day. (references) | |
Vietnam | By contrast, the procuracy, also a separate branch that reports to the National Assembly, has a unified line of command and controls its own budget. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | However, according to press reports, the head of an NGO working with Orang Asli said in May 2000 that school dropout rates among Orang Asli had increased markedly over previous years, and the percentage of Orang Asli living below the poverty line was increasing as well. (references) |
Minorities | Brazil | The state government of Rio de Janeiro created a hot line for reporting complaints of racism in July 2000. By the end of 2000, it had received 604 complaints, of which about 15 percent were referred for legal action. (references) |
Mauritania | Ethnic and cultural tension and discrimination arise from the geographic and cultural line between traditionally nomadic Arabic-speaking (Hassaniya) Moor herders and Peuhl herders of the Halpulaar group in the north and center, and sedentary cultivators of the Halpulaar (Toucouleur), Soninke, and Wolof ethnic groups in the south. (references) | |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | Czech tax codes are generally in line with European Union tax policies. (references) |
SWITZERLAND | Over 50 Swiss and foreign companies are now offering fixed line services. (references) | |
OMAN | A significant proportion of Oman's rural population lives near the poverty line. (references) | |
Political Rights | Liechtenstein | The monarchy is hereditary in the male line. (references) |
Bhutan | Finally the decree provided that the National Assembly, by a two-thirds vote of no confidence, can require the King to abdicate and to be replaced by the next person in the line of succession. (references) | |
Burundi | The act changed the structure of government by eliminating the post of prime minister, creating two vice presidents, removing the National Assembly Speaker from the line of presidential succession, and enlarging the National Assembly. (references) | |
Trade | India | Guarantees may be for a single transaction or a revolving line of credit. (references) |
Qatar | Table 8.7 provides a review of company borrowings, sources and line of business. (references) | |
Jamaica | The amendment will bring the country in line with the customs valuation regime of the WTO. (references) | |
Travel | Venezuela | The airport taxi line uses black Ford Explorers only. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | One rail line carries passengers and freight between Dammam and Riyadh. (references) | |
New Zealand | Their switch gear and line qualities are more than satisfactory for facsimile transmission. (references) | |
Women | Taiwan | From January to July, the hot line received 52,000 calls. (references) |
Bulgaria | Female-headed households frequently live below the poverty line. (references) | |
Barbados | The center also has a hot line for clients who wish to maintain their anonymity. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Albania | Nationwide more than 17 percent of the population lives under the official poverty line. (references) |
Canada | A family whose only employed member earns the minimum wage would be considered below the poverty line. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | COIN provides an information hot line and offers psychological, legal, and health counseling to returning women. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation. Hail, high Excess -- especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dan Rather | In Jerusalem tonight, right at the dividing line between the Israeli west and the mostly Arab east Jerusalem, yet another suicide bombing. We had driven by only minutes before the bomb went off. |
Dennis Miller | Hey, the bottom line is, the fundamental nature of mankind never changes. |
James Hewitt | I couldn't see her. And the wonderful thing is that there was a great effort made to get mail and that sort of thing to people on the front line. And it made an awful lot of difference. It is extremely good for morale. |
John Walsh | Well, that was the big question in the sniper case. And Chief Moose was absolutely furious that something leaked out when he was trying to close in on the sniper. There is real a fine line. |
Mitch Daniels | Let's see what direction the debate takes. We did not believe those were relatively as effective as the proposals in the package, which passed one body and got within a couple yards of the goal line in the Senate, in fact had the votes to pass. |
Prince Albert of Monaco | That is how the line of succession goes, but should anything happen to me, they can go through my sister, Caroline, or Stephanie, depending on who is the oldest and go through her children. |
Rush Limbaugh | The bottom line is, before Clinton came to office, Pakistan and India did not have nuclear weapons. |
Sally Jessy Raphael | Kind of a base, bottom line, I would guess. And that's not all television, that's the need to be tabloid television, I think. It's either that or a plug your new book and let's have a lot of giggles, or plug your movie or whatever. |
William Shatner | Oh, I had fun with them, but you have got to be careful because it's fun. The fun is the reality of it and yet is the unreality of it. So that line is very, very hazy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | From thence he proceeded to run the boundary line between the United States and Spain. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Unauthorized by the Constitution, without the sanction of Congress, to go beyond the line of defense, the vessel, being disabled from committing further hostilities, was liberated with its crew. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Perfection in our organization could not have been expected in the outset either in the National or State Governments or in tracing the line between their respective powers. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | A convention with Mexico for extending the time for the appointment of commissioners to run the boundary line has been concluded and will be submitted to the Senate. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Action along this line should not be postponed beyond March, in order to avoid uncertainty and disruption. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our efforts in behalf of humanity I think need not be restricted by any parallel or by any boundary line. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | In other words, the Federal Government will hold the line on real spending. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | When health coverage for a fellow on the assembly line costs thousands of dollars, the cost goes into the product he makes. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | This is not the American way, and we must draw the line. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | There is a line in our time, and in every time, between the defenders of human liberty and those who seek to master the minds and souls of others. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Line" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.46% of the time. "Line" is used about 22,431 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.46% | 22,309 | 396 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.16% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.09% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22,431 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "line" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Line | Last name | 1,000 | 14,006 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "line". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Koa | N/A | Biblical | A line |
| Tikvah | N/A | Biblical | A little line |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Finland | Birka Line Ab | Greece | Dane Sea Line SA |
| Japan | S Line Gifu Co., Ltd. | South Korea | Korea Line Corp. |
| Sweden | Atlantic Container Line AB | Thailand | Unithai Line Public Company Limited |
| USA | Full Line Distributors, Inc | ||
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