yellow line
Noun
Meaning
yellow line (plural yellow lines)
A straight line painted on the side of a road, to indicate that parking is restricted
Examples
A double white or yellow line means that neither side may overtake.
After police offered to take one highly intoxicated woman home from a downtown store, she reportedly ran into the middle of the street, stood on a yellow line, and attempted to give herself a field sobriety test.
Boily, 35, an iron worker, was driving home after drinking at a Christmas office party downtown and, when he passed Place d’Orléans, where the highway is no longer divided, started passing cars in the oncoming lane and across the double yellow line.
In the United Kingdom and Canada, notably on extra-urban roads, a solid white or yellow line closer to the driver is used to indicate that no overtaking is allowed in that lane.
Places with urban growth boundaries Albania Albania maintains the 'yellow line' system hailing from its Socialist Regime - limiting urban development beyond a designated boundary for all municipalities.
In the UK, male/female quick release connectors (red line or emergency), have a female on the truck and male on the trailer, but a yellow line or service has a male on the truck and female on the trailer.