"line of fire" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lines of fire [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|lines of fire}} line of fire (plural lines of fire)
  1. (military, weaponry) direction in which a weapon fires Categories (topical): Military, Weapons Translations (direction of fire): skudlinje [common-gender] (Danish), ildlinje [common-gender] (Danish), ampumalinja (Finnish), tulilinja (Finnish), ligne de tir [feminine] (French), Schusslinie [feminine] (German), eldlína [feminine] (Icelandic), linea del fuoco [feminine] (Italian), skottlinje [common-gender] (Swedish), eldlinje [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-line_of_fire-en-noun-y9WE84~o Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 89 11 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 90 10 Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry Disambiguation of 'direction of fire': 100 0
  2. (figurative, by extension) position vulnerable to attack Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-line_of_fire-en-noun-QIqISj32

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for line of fire meaning in English (3.6kB)

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