lines
Speech parts
1. lines - Noun
2. lines - Verb
3. Lines - Proper noun
Meaning
lines
plural of line
(film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.
I have yet to learn my lines.
(fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
(shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
(education) A school punishment in which a student must repeatedly write out a line of text related to the offence (e.g. "I must be quiet in class") a specified number of times; the lines of text so written out.
If you don't behave I'll give you lines
I had to write out 200 lines
(US) The reins with which a horse is guided by its driver.
lines
third-person singular simple present indicative of line
Lines
A surname.
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Examples
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
God writes straight even on wavy lines.
God writes straight by broken lines.
God writes on crooked lines.