LINES Definition & Meaning

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lines

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plural noun

general appearance or outline
a car with fine lines
a plan of procedure or construction
built on traditional lines
1. the spoken words of a theatrical presentation
2. the words of a particular role
  he forgot his lines
informal.
a marriage certificate
marriage lines
luck, fate, or fortune (esp in the phrase hard lines )
1. rows of tents, buildings, temporary stabling, etc, in a military camp
  transport lines
2. a defensive position, row of trenches, or other fortification
  we broke through the enemy lines
1. a school punishment of writing the same sentence or phrase out a specified number of times
2. the phrases or sentences so written out
  a hundred lines
read between the lines
to understand or find an implicit meaning in addition to the obvious one

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Major utilities use unionized labor to build and repair equipment, including the lines connecting distant industrial-scale solar farms in the desert.

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Some of Israel's critics, including those who have brought cases before the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, argue that such lines have already been crossed.

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Line 70, which services Olive Street and Grand Avenue, and lines 910 and 950 that serve Metro’s J Line have since been included.

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Travel round Chinese provinces and you see they are littered with empty projects – lines of towering concrete shells that have been labelled "ghost cities".

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Tens of thousands of Los Angeles County workers walked off their jobs and onto picket lines Tuesday, amid what their union described as a failure by the county to fairly bargain for a new contract.

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