English Online Dictionary. What means lines? What does lines mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laɪnz/
- Rhymes: -aɪnz
Noun
lines
- plural of line
Noun
lines pl (plural only)
- (film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.
- (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.
- (US) The reins with which a horse is guided by its driver.
Derived terms
- fluff one's lines
Verb
lines
- third-person singular simple present indicative of line
Anagrams
- Niles, elsin, lenis, liens, lisne
Indonesian
Etymology
From lesbi or lesbian. Compare binan.
Noun
lines (first-person possessive linesku, second-person possessive linesmu, third-person possessive linesnya)
- (gay slang) a lesbian woman
Latin
Verb
linēs
- second-person singular future active indicative of linō
Spanish
Noun
lines m pl
- plural of line