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Noun [Englisch]

IPA: laɪn, laɪnz Audio: en-us-line.ogg , en-us-lines.ogg Forms: the line [singular], the lines [plural]
Etymology: aus dem Mittelenglischen, von dem altenglischen Wort līne („Schnur“); verwandt mit dem deutschen Wort Leine
  1. Schnur, Faden: lange, relativ dünne Textilie
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-zxXhJN7R
  2. Linie: (gerade oder gebogene) Verbindung oder Weg zwischen zwei oder mehreren Punkten Tags: general
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun--ICegmsu
  3. Linie: gerader, eindimensionaler Körper, der unendlich lang und unendlich dünn ist Tags: geometry
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-L15qOMr7
  4. Strecke, beidseitig begrenzte gerade Linie (2b) Tags: colloquial, geometry
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-5Pwcz2WZ
  5. Meridian, Längengrad, Breitengrad
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-rWrjdMc9
  6. der Äquator, der Erdäquator
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-U~-2fFk~
  7. Richtung, Weg
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-1slPGQm3
  8. Leitung
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-iLzSTTVl
  9. Zeile: geschriebene oder gedruckte Zeile (Reihe) von Buchstaben, Wörtern, Zahlen oder Zeichen, oder eine Leere anstelle solches Textes
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-S2bAESei
  10. gesprochener Satz
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-nydDFKn4
  11. Spruch, Platte, Geschwätz
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-Nfqtra6t
  12. Schlange (Reihe von Individuen oder Gegenständen)
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-pvlWlH6Z
  13. Tags: no-gloss
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-47DEQpj8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rope, cord, thread, line segment, equator, queue Hypernyms: figure, text Translations: Schnur (Deutsch), Faden (Deutsch), Leine (Deutsch), Linie (Deutsch), Gerade (Deutsch), Strecke (Deutsch), Äquator (Deutsch), Leitung (Deutsch), Zeile (Deutsch), corde (Französisch), fil (Französisch), ligne (Französisch), droite (Französisch), segment (Französisch)

Noun [Englisch]

IPA: laɪn Audio: en-us-line.ogg Forms: the line [singular]
Etymology: aus dem Mittelenglischen, von dem altenglischen Wort līn („Lein, Leinen“); verwandt mit den deutschen Wörtern Lein, Leinen
  1. Leinen, Linnen; Lein
    Sense id: de-line-en-noun-cxaV-oPU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: linen, flax Derived forms: linefeed Translations (Leinen, Linnen; Lein): Linie [feminine] (Deutsch), doğru (Türkisch), hatt-ı müstakim [archaic] (Türkisch)

Verb [Englisch]

IPA: laɪn Forms: simple present I, you, they, simple present line, he lines, she lines, it lines, simple past lined, present participle lining, past participle lined
Etymology: von dem altenglischen Wort līn („Lein, Leinen“) und der Tatsache, dass Futter oft linnen war
  1. die Innenseite (einer Sache) bedecken, füttern (mit einem Futter versehen)
    Sense id: de-line-en-verb-T7CY3dXC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb [Englisch]

IPA: laɪn Forms: simple present I, you, they, simple present line, he lines, she lines, it lines, simple past lined, present participle lining, past participle lined
Etymology: von dem mittelfranzösischen Wort ligner
  1. (eine Hündin) begatten Tags: archaic
    Sense id: de-line-en-verb-d4CJD-k0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (veraltet, von einem Hund: (eine Hündin) begatten): ligner (Französisch), couvrir (Französisch)

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "plane"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "body"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "object"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Substantiv (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "2a",
      "word": "path"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2a",
      "word": "streak"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2a",
      "word": "stripe"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "curve"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2b,c",
      "word": "ray"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "connection"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6a",
      "word": "verse"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6a",
      "word": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6b",
      "word": "part"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6b",
      "word": "monologue"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6b",
      "word": "soliloquy"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6c",
      "word": "lie"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6c",
      "word": "exaggeration"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "aus dem Mittelenglischen, von dem altenglischen Wort līne („Schnur“); verwandt mit dem deutschen Wort Leine",
  "expressions": [
    {
      "note": "zwischen den Zeilen lesen (auch das Versteckte, nicht ausdrücklich Gemeinte in etwas Gesagtem oder Geschriebenem verstehen)",
      "sense_index": "6a",
      "word": "read between the lines"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the line",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the lines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "figure"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6a",
      "word": "text"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "line",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Kapitel 9",
          "text": "Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Joshua Plunkett, Jeanne K. Hanson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Trees and Shrubs (2008), Seite 164",
          "text": "Use fabric or nursery grade webbing around stakes and trunk, loosely tying the line to the tree about 6 inches below the point where the tree bounces back in your hand when you grab the trunk.",
          "translation": "Das ist eine gerade Linie."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590–96)",
          "text": "They […] brought […] garments made of line."
        },
        {
          "text": "The tailor lined the cloak with silk."
        },
        {
          "text": "The bird lined its nest with pine needles."
        },
        {
          "ref": "The Country Gentleman's Magazine (September 1868), Seite 292",
          "text": "Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black."
        },
        {
          "ref": "A Lawson, The Modern Farrier (1825)",
          "text": "A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Youatt, The Dog (1855)",
          "text": "Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Schnur, Faden: lange, relativ dünne Textilie"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-zxXhJN7R",
      "raw_tags": [
        "ursprünglich"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The letter S is drawn with one line, the letter H with three."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Percy Shelley, The Daemon of the World (1816)",
          "text": "The atmosphere in flaming sparkles flew; / And where the burning wheels / Eddied above the mountain’s loftiest peak / Was traced a line of lightning."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Linie: (gerade oder gebogene) Verbindung oder Weg zwischen zwei oder mehreren Punkten"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun--ICegmsu",
      "sense_index": "2a",
      "tags": [
        "general"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Euclid defined a line as a breadthless length."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Linie: gerader, eindimensionaler Körper, der unendlich lang und unendlich dünn ist"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-L15qOMr7",
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "tags": [
        "geometry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The line between point A and point B was 2cm long."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Strecke, beidseitig begrenzte gerade Linie (2b)"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-5Pwcz2WZ",
      "sense_index": "2c",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "geometry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Meridian, Längengrad, Breitengrad"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-rWrjdMc9",
      "sense_index": "3a"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Kapitel 54",
          "text": "She was somewhere to the northward of the Line."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "der Äquator, der Erdäquator"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-U~-2fFk~",
      "raw_tags": [
        "häufig großgeschrieben (the Line)"
      ],
      "sense_index": "3b"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Richtung, Weg"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-1slPGQm3",
      "sense_index": "4"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Emergency Care And Transportation of the Sick And Injured (2006), herausgegeben von der American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Seite 58:",
          "text": "You should not touch downed power lines."
        },
        {
          "text": "The line went dead."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Leitung"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-iLzSTTVl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Fernmeldewesen"
      ],
      "sense_index": "5"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "(This line contains two parentheses.)",
          "translation": "(Diese Zeile enthält zwei Klammern.)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Zeile: geschriebene oder gedruckte Zeile (Reihe) von Buchstaben, Wörtern, Zahlen oder Zeichen, oder eine Leere anstelle solches Textes"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-S2bAESei",
      "sense_index": "6a"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The actor only has twelve lines in the movie."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "gesprochener Satz"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-nydDFKn4",
      "sense_index": "6b"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't try to feed me that line again!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spruch, Platte, Geschwätz"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-Nfqtra6t",
      "sense_index": "6c"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The line of people wound all the way around the building."
        },
        {
          "text": "The line of cars stretched around the block."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Schlange (Reihe von Individuen oder Gegenständen)"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-pvlWlH6Z",
      "sense_index": "7"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Jamie Ponti, Animal Attraction (2005), Seite 76",
          "text": "“That's the stupidest line I've ever heard,” he says."
        }
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-47DEQpj8",
      "sense_index": "6b,c",
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "laɪn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "laɪnz",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Plural:"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-line.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-line.ogg"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-lines.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-lines.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Plural:"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "rope"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "cord"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "thread"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2c",
      "word": "line segment"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "3b",
      "word": "equator"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "7",
      "word": "queue"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Schnur"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Faden"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Leine"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Linie"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Gerade"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Strecke"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Äquator"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Leitung"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Zeile"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "corde"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "fil"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "ligne"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "droite"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "segment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "line"
}

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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Singularetantum (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Substantiv (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "linefeed"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "aus dem Mittelenglischen, von dem altenglischen Wort līn („Lein, Leinen“); verwandt mit den deutschen Wörtern Lein, Leinen",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the line",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "line",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590–96)",
          "text": "They […] brought […] garments made of line."
        },
        {
          "text": "The tailor lined the cloak with silk."
        },
        {
          "text": "The bird lined its nest with pine needles."
        },
        {
          "ref": "The Country Gentleman's Magazine (September 1868), Seite 292",
          "text": "Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black."
        },
        {
          "ref": "A Lawson, The Modern Farrier (1825)",
          "text": "A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Youatt, The Dog (1855)",
          "text": "Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Leinen, Linnen; Lein"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-noun-cxaV-oPU",
      "sense_index": "1"
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "laɪn"
    },
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "linen"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "flax"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Leinen, Linnen; Lein",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Linie"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Türkisch",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Leinen, Linnen; Lein",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "doğru"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Türkisch",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Leinen, Linnen; Lein",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "hatt-ı müstakim"
    }
  ],
  "word": "line"
}

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      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
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      "name": "Verb (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "von dem altenglischen Wort līn („Lein, Leinen“) und der Tatsache, dass Futter oft linnen war",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simple present I, you, they"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple present line"
    },
    {
      "form": "he lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "she lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "it lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple past lined"
    },
    {
      "form": "present participle lining"
    },
    {
      "form": "past participle lined"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "line",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The tailor lined the cloak with silk."
        },
        {
          "text": "The bird lined its nest with pine needles."
        },
        {
          "ref": "The Country Gentleman's Magazine (September 1868), Seite 292",
          "text": "Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black."
        },
        {
          "ref": "A Lawson, The Modern Farrier (1825)",
          "text": "A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Youatt, The Dog (1855)",
          "text": "Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "die Innenseite (einer Sache) bedecken, füttern (mit einem Futter versehen)"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-verb-T7CY3dXC",
      "sense_index": "1"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "laɪn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "line"
}

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Verb (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "von dem mittelfranzösischen Wort ligner",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simple present I, you, they"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple present line"
    },
    {
      "form": "he lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "she lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "it lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple past lined"
    },
    {
      "form": "present participle lining"
    },
    {
      "form": "past participle lined"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "line",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Country Gentleman's Magazine (September 1868), Seite 292",
          "text": "Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black."
        },
        {
          "ref": "A Lawson, The Modern Farrier (1825)",
          "text": "A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Youatt, The Dog (1855)",
          "text": "Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(eine Hündin) begatten"
      ],
      "id": "de-line-en-verb-d4CJD-k0",
      "raw_tags": [
        "von einem Hund"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "laɪn"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "veraltet, von einem Hund: (eine Hündin) begatten",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "ligner"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "veraltet, von einem Hund: (eine Hündin) begatten",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "couvrir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "line"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "plane"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "body"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "object"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
    "Englisch",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "Substantiv (Englisch)",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "2a",
      "word": "path"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2a",
      "word": "streak"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2a",
      "word": "stripe"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "curve"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2b,c",
      "word": "ray"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "connection"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6a",
      "word": "verse"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6a",
      "word": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6b",
      "word": "part"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6b",
      "word": "monologue"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6b",
      "word": "soliloquy"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6c",
      "word": "lie"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6c",
      "word": "exaggeration"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "aus dem Mittelenglischen, von dem altenglischen Wort līne („Schnur“); verwandt mit dem deutschen Wort Leine",
  "expressions": [
    {
      "note": "zwischen den Zeilen lesen (auch das Versteckte, nicht ausdrücklich Gemeinte in etwas Gesagtem oder Geschriebenem verstehen)",
      "sense_index": "6a",
      "word": "read between the lines"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the line",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the lines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "word": "figure"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6a",
      "word": "text"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "line",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Kapitel 9",
          "text": "Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Joshua Plunkett, Jeanne K. Hanson, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Trees and Shrubs (2008), Seite 164",
          "text": "Use fabric or nursery grade webbing around stakes and trunk, loosely tying the line to the tree about 6 inches below the point where the tree bounces back in your hand when you grab the trunk.",
          "translation": "Das ist eine gerade Linie."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590–96)",
          "text": "They […] brought […] garments made of line."
        },
        {
          "text": "The tailor lined the cloak with silk."
        },
        {
          "text": "The bird lined its nest with pine needles."
        },
        {
          "ref": "The Country Gentleman's Magazine (September 1868), Seite 292",
          "text": "Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black."
        },
        {
          "ref": "A Lawson, The Modern Farrier (1825)",
          "text": "A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Youatt, The Dog (1855)",
          "text": "Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Schnur, Faden: lange, relativ dünne Textilie"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "ursprünglich"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The letter S is drawn with one line, the letter H with three."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Percy Shelley, The Daemon of the World (1816)",
          "text": "The atmosphere in flaming sparkles flew; / And where the burning wheels / Eddied above the mountain’s loftiest peak / Was traced a line of lightning."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Linie: (gerade oder gebogene) Verbindung oder Weg zwischen zwei oder mehreren Punkten"
      ],
      "sense_index": "2a",
      "tags": [
        "general"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Euclid defined a line as a breadthless length."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Linie: gerader, eindimensionaler Körper, der unendlich lang und unendlich dünn ist"
      ],
      "sense_index": "2b",
      "tags": [
        "geometry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The line between point A and point B was 2cm long."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Strecke, beidseitig begrenzte gerade Linie (2b)"
      ],
      "sense_index": "2c",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "geometry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Meridian, Längengrad, Breitengrad"
      ],
      "sense_index": "3a"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Kapitel 54",
          "text": "She was somewhere to the northward of the Line."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "der Äquator, der Erdäquator"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "häufig großgeschrieben (the Line)"
      ],
      "sense_index": "3b"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Richtung, Weg"
      ],
      "sense_index": "4"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Emergency Care And Transportation of the Sick And Injured (2006), herausgegeben von der American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Seite 58:",
          "text": "You should not touch downed power lines."
        },
        {
          "text": "The line went dead."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Leitung"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Fernmeldewesen"
      ],
      "sense_index": "5"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "(This line contains two parentheses.)",
          "translation": "(Diese Zeile enthält zwei Klammern.)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Zeile: geschriebene oder gedruckte Zeile (Reihe) von Buchstaben, Wörtern, Zahlen oder Zeichen, oder eine Leere anstelle solches Textes"
      ],
      "sense_index": "6a"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The actor only has twelve lines in the movie."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "gesprochener Satz"
      ],
      "sense_index": "6b"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't try to feed me that line again!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spruch, Platte, Geschwätz"
      ],
      "sense_index": "6c"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The line of people wound all the way around the building."
        },
        {
          "text": "The line of cars stretched around the block."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Schlange (Reihe von Individuen oder Gegenständen)"
      ],
      "sense_index": "7"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Jamie Ponti, Animal Attraction (2005), Seite 76",
          "text": "“That's the stupidest line I've ever heard,” he says."
        }
      ],
      "sense_index": "6b,c",
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "laɪn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "laɪnz",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Plural:"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-line.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/En-us-line.ogg/En-us-line.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-line.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-lines.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c9/En-us-lines.ogg/En-us-lines.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-lines.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Plural:"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "rope"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "cord"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "thread"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2c",
      "word": "line segment"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "3b",
      "word": "equator"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "7",
      "word": "queue"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Schnur"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Faden"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Leine"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Linie"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Gerade"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Strecke"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Äquator"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Leitung"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Zeile"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "corde"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "fil"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "ligne"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "droite"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "segment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "line"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
    "Englisch",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "Singularetantum (Englisch)",
    "Substantiv (Englisch)",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "linefeed"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "aus dem Mittelenglischen, von dem altenglischen Wort līn („Lein, Leinen“); verwandt mit den deutschen Wörtern Lein, Leinen",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the line",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "line",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590–96)",
          "text": "They […] brought […] garments made of line."
        },
        {
          "text": "The tailor lined the cloak with silk."
        },
        {
          "text": "The bird lined its nest with pine needles."
        },
        {
          "ref": "The Country Gentleman's Magazine (September 1868), Seite 292",
          "text": "Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black."
        },
        {
          "ref": "A Lawson, The Modern Farrier (1825)",
          "text": "A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Youatt, The Dog (1855)",
          "text": "Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Leinen, Linnen; Lein"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "laɪn"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-line.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/En-us-line.ogg/En-us-line.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-line.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "linen"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "flax"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Leinen, Linnen; Lein",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Linie"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Türkisch",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Leinen, Linnen; Lein",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "doğru"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Türkisch",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "Leinen, Linnen; Lein",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "hatt-ı müstakim"
    }
  ],
  "word": "line"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
    "Englisch",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "Verb (Englisch)",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "von dem altenglischen Wort līn („Lein, Leinen“) und der Tatsache, dass Futter oft linnen war",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simple present I, you, they"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple present line"
    },
    {
      "form": "he lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "she lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "it lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple past lined"
    },
    {
      "form": "present participle lining"
    },
    {
      "form": "past participle lined"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "line",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The tailor lined the cloak with silk."
        },
        {
          "text": "The bird lined its nest with pine needles."
        },
        {
          "ref": "The Country Gentleman's Magazine (September 1868), Seite 292",
          "text": "Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black."
        },
        {
          "ref": "A Lawson, The Modern Farrier (1825)",
          "text": "A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Youatt, The Dog (1855)",
          "text": "Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "die Innenseite (einer Sache) bedecken, füttern (mit einem Futter versehen)"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "laɪn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "line"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
    "Englisch",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "Verb (Englisch)",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "von dem mittelfranzösischen Wort ligner",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simple present I, you, they"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple present line"
    },
    {
      "form": "he lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "she lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "it lines"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple past lined"
    },
    {
      "form": "present participle lining"
    },
    {
      "form": "past participle lined"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "line",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Country Gentleman's Magazine (September 1868), Seite 292",
          "text": "Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black."
        },
        {
          "ref": "A Lawson, The Modern Farrier (1825)",
          "text": "A bitch lined by a mangy dog is very liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some time or other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "William Youatt, The Dog (1855)",
          "text": "Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(eine Hündin) begatten"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "von einem Hund"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "laɪn"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "veraltet, von einem Hund: (eine Hündin) begatten",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "ligner"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Französisch",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "veraltet, von einem Hund: (eine Hündin) begatten",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "couvrir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "line"
}

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