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— English words —

• line n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• line n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• line n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• line n. Direction, path.
• line n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two…
• line n. A clothesline.
• line n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• line n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• line n. (Military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• line n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• line n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• line n. (Obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• line n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
• line n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• line n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one’s body).
• line n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and…
• line n. (Military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps…
• line n. (Music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
• line n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• line n. A small amount of text. Specifically…
• line n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade…
• line n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• line n. (Slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a…
• line n. A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• line n. (Stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• line n. Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry…
• line n. (Advertising) Short for agate line.
• line n. (Historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• line n. (Baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• line n. (Fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• line n. (Engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but…
• line n. A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
• line n. (Obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• line n. (Genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• line n. (Perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way…
• line n. (Ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• line n. (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field;…
• line n. (Medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
• line n. (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
• line v. (Transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• line v. (Transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by…
• line v. (Transitive) To form a line along.
• line v. (Transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
• line v. (Rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
• line v. (Transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• line v. (Transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• line v. (Intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
• line v. (Transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• line v. (Transitive) To measure.
• line n. (Obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• line v. (Transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• line v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• line v. (Transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• line v. (Transitive, now rare, of a dog) To copulate with, to impregnate.
• Line prop.n. An English and Scottish surname.
• LINE n. (Genetics) Acronym of w:long interspersed nuclear element, a type of retrotransposon in genomics.
• LINE n. A close quarters combat system, see LINE (combat system) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Czech
  • líne n. Vocative singular of lín.
  • líné adj. Feminine genitive/dative/locative singular of líný, neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of…
• Danish - Norwegian
  • Line prop.n. A female given name.
• Estonian
  • -line suff. Derives adjectives from nouns.
• Irish
  • líne n. Line, row.
  • líne n. Lineage, race, family; generation.
  • líne n. (Literary) span.
  • líne n. Clutch (of eggs).
• Middle english
  • line n. Rope, cord.
  • line n. Line, rule, ruler, measure.
  • line n. (Figurative) rule, direction, command, edict.
  • line n. Line, straight mark; also a fictitious line.
  • line n. (Written) line, verse.
  • line n. Alternative form of lyne.
• Norwegian nynorsk
  • line n. A line (a continuous mark through two or more points; a succession of ancestors or descendants; the…
  • line n. A line (a strong rope, cord, string, wire).
• Old english
  • line n. Line.
  • line n. Rope, cable.
  • line n. Row, series.
  • line n. Direction, rule.
• Phuthi
  • line pron. You, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.
• Polish
  • linę n. Accusative singular of lina.
• Taos
  • łíne n. (Botany) grass.

— English words, defined in German —

• line S. Ursprünglich: Schnur, Faden: lange, relativ dünne Textilie.
• line S. [a] allgemein: Linie: (gerade oder gebogene) Verbindung oder Weg zwischen zwei oder mehreren Punkten…
• line S. [a] Meridian, Längengrad, Breitengrad [b] häufig großgeschrieben (the Line): der Äquator, der Erdäquator.
• line S. Richtung, Weg.
• line S. Fernmeldewesen: Leitung.
• line S. [a] Zeile: geschriebene oder gedruckte Zeile (Reihe) von Buchstaben, Wörtern, Zahlen oder Zeichen, oder…
• line S. Schlange (Reihe von Individuen oder Gegenständen).
• line S. Leinen, Linnen; Lein.
• line V. Die Innenseite (einer Sache) bedecken, füttern (mit einem Futter versehen).
• line V. Veraltet, von einem Hund: (eine Hündin) begatten.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• line n. Lijn.

— English words, defined in French —

• line n. Corde, fil.
• line n. Ligne (droite / courbe), trait.
• line n. Un tuyau, par exemple dans un système hydraulique.
• line n. Ride.
• line n. (États-Unis), (Canada) File d’attente, file, queue.
• line n. Vers.
• line n. Ligne de produits.
• line n. Case d’un formulaire.
• line v. (Transitif) Border.
• line v. (Transitif) (Line up) Aligner.
• line v. (Intransitif) (Line up) Faire la queue.
• LINE n. (Biochimie) Élément nucléaire dispersé long.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• line s. Línea.
• line s. Arruga.
• line s. Fila, hilera.
• line s. Compañía, empresa.
• line v. Hacer una fila.
• line v. Trazar líneas.
• line v. Forrar, revestir.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• line s. Fila.
• line s. Linha.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• line s. (Matematica) (geometria) linea.
• line s. (Matematica) (geometria) retta.
• line s. Riga.
• line s. Direzione.
• line s. Collezione.
• line s. (Militare) trincea.

— In French —

• Line prén.f. Prénom féminin.

— In Spanish —

• Liñe s. Apellido.

410 English words from 80 English definitions

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28 English words from 40 foreign definitions

Aligner Border Canada Case dans der Die exemple Faire fil fila file Futter Line linea Line␣up Linha Linnen long Meridian par queue Ride Riga the trait Unis Vers

95 foreign words from 40 foreign definitions

allgemein Apellido Äquator Arruga attente bedecken begatten Biochimie Breitengrad Buchstaben Collezione Compañía Corde courbe Direzione dispersé droite dünne eine einem einer Élément empresa Erdäquator États États-Unis Faden Faire␣la␣queue féminin formulaire Forrar füttern gebogene gedruckte Gegenständen geometria gerade geschriebene großgeschrieben Hacer häufig hilera Hund Hündin hydraulique Individuen Innenseite Intransitif lange Längengrad Lein Leinen Leitung Ligne Lijn Línea líneas Linie Matematica mehreren Militare mit nucléaire oder par␣exemple Prénom produits Punkten Reihe relativ retta revestir Richtung Sache Schlange Schnur système Textilie Transitif Trazar trincea tuyau una Ursprünglich Veraltet Verbindung versehen von Weg Wörtern Zahlen Zeichen Zeile zwei zwischen

471 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

linea lined linel linen Linen liner Liner LINER lines Lines LINEs liney lineae lineal linean Linean linear Linear LINEAR lineic lineid linels linens Linens lineny liners Liners LINERs lineup line-up line␣up lineage Linear␣A Linear␣B linears line␣art lineary lineate linecut line-dry lined␣up line␣fed line␣gun Lineham Linehan lineids Lineker linelet lineman linemen +421 words

2505 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

alined aliner alines A-lines clines klined klines k-lines v-lines V-lines V␣lines ablines aliners bolines bylined byliner bylines colines Colinet delined delines dolines Exlines felines inlined inliner inlines Jelinek lolines Malines Melines molines Molines molinet onlined onliner onlines relined relines salines sliness splined splines unlined unlines uplines up-lines up␣lines valines airliner +2455 words

1881 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

aline Aline A-line cline Cline -cline kline Kline k-line v-line V-line V␣line abline Arline boline byline Celine coline deline Deline doline Exline feline galine -giline haline hyline inline in-line in␣line loline meline Meline moline Moline online on-line on␣line reline saline Saline siline spline unline upline up-line up␣line valine Adaline Adeline +1831 words

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

-ine lin Lin -lin lin. Lin.

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

nil NIL nil-

5 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

LEIN lien Neil Niel Nile

115 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

alien Alien aline Aline A-line anile Belin Bilen cline Cline -cline Eblin Edlin elain Elain Eleni elfin Elgin Elgin. Elian Elina Eling Elino ELINT Elkin eloin elsin elvin Elvin Enlil enlit Eplin Ilene incel incle indel ingle Ingle inkle inled inlet intel Intel Klein Klien kline Kline k-line laine lebni +65 words

35 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

EIL EIN -ein Eli ENL ile Ile %ile -ile ile- -ine lei Lei Lei. Len lie Lie LIE -lie lin Lin -lin lin. Lin. LNe LNE NEI Nie NIE n.i.e. nil NIL nil- NLE NLI

79 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bine cine cine- dine Dine Diné Eine -eine fine Fine gine Hine jine kine kine- lane Lane lene lice Lide life Life lige Lije like Like -like Lile lime Lina Linc lind Lind ling Ling -ling Lin-i link Link linn Linn lino LINQ lins lint Lint Linz Lipe lire Lise lite -lite liue live lone LRNe lune Lune lyne Lyne mine Mine nine Nine pine Pine -pine rine Rine sine SINE tine Tine vine Vine wine Wine WINE zine

12 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

-ine lie Lie LIE -lie lin Lin -lin lin. Lin. LNe LNE

11 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

laine Leine liane limne Lince Linde linge linne Linne Linse lisne

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