"centerline" meaning in All languages combined

See centerline on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: centerlines [plural]
Etymology: center + line Etymology templates: {{compound|en|center|line}} center + line Head templates: {{en-noun}} centerline (plural centerlines)
  1. A line down the center of a road, generally one that divides traffic moving in opposite directions.
    Sense id: en-centerline-en-noun-IUw7jXqW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. (martial arts, boxing) An imaginary line connecting the center of two fighters' bodies while they face each other. Categories (topical): Boxing, Martial arts
    Sense id: en-centerline-en-noun-29JARBcC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Topics: boxing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: centreline, centre line

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for centerline meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "center",
        "3": "line"
      },
      "expansion": "center + line",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "center + line",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "centerlines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "centerline (plural centerlines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, US Department of Transportation, Traffic control for street and highway construction and maintenance operations",
          "text": "It is particularly confusing when the motorist is channelized across the highway centerline. For long-term closures conflicting pavement markings must be removed or obliterated before relaning the roadway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A line down the center of a road, generally one that divides traffic moving in opposite directions."
      ],
      "id": "en-centerline-en-noun-IUw7jXqW",
      "links": [
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "traffic",
          "traffic"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Boxing",
          "orig": "en:Boxing",
          "parents": [
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Martial arts",
          "orig": "en:Martial arts",
          "parents": [
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 July 31, Vovchanchyn Fan, “Re: Bob and weaving drill”, in Sherdog (Usenet)",
          "text": "You might already know that, I don't know, but since you are training at home I didn't want you to be weaving wildly on each side of the rope - the goal is to pop up as tight as possible to the center line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 January 3, Justin Pressley, “Re: having problems whilst sparring”, in Sherdog (Usenet)",
          "text": "take his lead leg out from under him. Just dont it when he is going for a power jab, just make sure your heads out of the center line",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An imaginary line connecting the center of two fighters' bodies while they face each other."
      ],
      "id": "en-centerline-en-noun-29JARBcC",
      "links": [
        [
          "martial arts",
          "martial arts"
        ],
        [
          "boxing",
          "boxing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(martial arts, boxing) An imaginary line connecting the center of two fighters' bodies while they face each other."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "boxing",
        "government",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "martial-arts",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "sports",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "centreline"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "centre line"
    }
  ],
  "word": "centerline"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "center",
        "3": "line"
      },
      "expansion": "center + line",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "center + line",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "centerlines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "centerline (plural centerlines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, US Department of Transportation, Traffic control for street and highway construction and maintenance operations",
          "text": "It is particularly confusing when the motorist is channelized across the highway centerline. For long-term closures conflicting pavement markings must be removed or obliterated before relaning the roadway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A line down the center of a road, generally one that divides traffic moving in opposite directions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "traffic",
          "traffic"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Boxing",
        "en:Martial arts"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005 July 31, Vovchanchyn Fan, “Re: Bob and weaving drill”, in Sherdog (Usenet)",
          "text": "You might already know that, I don't know, but since you are training at home I didn't want you to be weaving wildly on each side of the rope - the goal is to pop up as tight as possible to the center line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 January 3, Justin Pressley, “Re: having problems whilst sparring”, in Sherdog (Usenet)",
          "text": "take his lead leg out from under him. Just dont it when he is going for a power jab, just make sure your heads out of the center line",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An imaginary line connecting the center of two fighters' bodies while they face each other."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "martial arts",
          "martial arts"
        ],
        [
          "boxing",
          "boxing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(martial arts, boxing) An imaginary line connecting the center of two fighters' bodies while they face each other."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "boxing",
        "government",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "martial-arts",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "sports",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "centreline"
    },
    {
      "word": "centre line"
    }
  ],
  "word": "centerline"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.