/laɪn/
Translation
A long thin mark, or a row of people or things one behind the other.
Word origin
Comes from the Old English 'line' and Latin 'linea', meaning a string or thread.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- line
Grammar
Examples
.
Here 'line' means a long thin mark.
.
Here 'line' means a row of people waiting one behind the other.
.
Here 'line' means a row of space for writing on.
A line is a long, thin mark, like one drawn with a pen. It can also mean a row of people or things standing one after another.
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Stories
(8)Sports Day
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The Broken Window
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The Passenger
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The First Letter
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The Midnight Piano
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The Register
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The Suggestion Box
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The Whale on the Beach
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Grammar articles
(14)Adjective order in English: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
As vs like in English: swims like a fish, works as a waiter, and the truth about like I said
British vs American grammar: have got, gotten, the team are, and the other quiet differences
Countable and uncountable nouns in English: advice, information, news and the ones you simply have to learn
Discourse markers in English: well, anyway, actually, mind you and by the way
Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Linking words in English: however, although, even though, despite and therefore
Modals of deduction in English: must be, might be, could be and can't be
Phrasal verbs in English: what they are, meanings, rules and examples
Prepositions in English: place, time and movement explained
The subjunctive and the unreal past in English: I suggest he go, if I were you, and it's time we left
Wish and if only in English: wish + past, wish + past perfect, wish + would, and why I wish I would is wrong
Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-
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