Line

The word line derives from the Latin linum, meaning flax plant from which linen is produced; at one time, a stretched linen thread was the most reliable way to determine a straight line.

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The word line can refer to:

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• a "straight line", in the geometric sense; see line (mathematics);
• a length of rope;
• a queue area;
• a line of written, printed, or spoken text;
• a product line, in marketing;
• an obsolete unit of measurement, equal to one-twelfth of an imperial inch;
• a circuit (or loop) in electrical engineering;
• a Powerline for electric power transmission;
• a telephone line;
• a measure of video display resolution or image resolution; see line (video);
• a program to emulate Linux on Microsoft Windows in the manner of WINE — see LINE;
• the line of battle in naval warfare, hence "ship of the line";
• a shipping line is a company engaged in sea transport, (from which comes the term Ocean liner);
• the infantry, as in line infantry, since foot soldiers used to pitch their tents in the field in straight lines; hence nowadays "Borneo Lines", for instance, is the name of a barracks;
• a line may refer to lineage in genealogy or evolution;
• an archaic name of the unit for magnetic flux, now named the maxwell.
• Lines (video game).
• "LINE-1" stands for "long interspersed nucleotide element-1", an abundant retrotransposon of the human genome.
• "doing a line" may refer to snorting cocaine.

Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

Flax: Common flax (also known as linseed) is a member of the Linaceae family, which includes about 150 plant species widely distributed around the world. Some of them are grown in domestic flower beds, as flax is one of the few truly blue flowers. (Most "blue" flowers are really a shade of purple.)...

Linen: Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant....

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