Line

Line or lines may refer to:

Science and technology

• Line (electrical engineering), a circuit or loop.
  • A power line for electric power transmission
  • line power or lines power, domestic mains electricity.
  • telephone line
  • RF transmission line
  • Line level, a common standard for audio signals.
• Line (video), a measure of video display resolution or image resolution
• line, former name of the unit of magnetic flux, the Maxwell
• Line (unit), an obsolete unit of length equal to one-twelfth or one-tenth of an inch.
• Line (geometry), an infinitely-extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature.
• line: a medical catheter, particularly one used for intravenous treatment.
  • CVP line
  • PICC line
  • umbilical line
• Line (text file), a row of characters as a unit of organization within text files.
• A "line of longitude" or "line of latitude" in geography. "The Line" may refer to the equator.
• Relationships in genetics and genealogy, such as Lineage and kinship and descent.

Transport

• Railway line
• Shipping line, a company engaged in sea transport.
• The International Load Line or Plimsoll line (Waterline), indicates the maximum safe draft for the vessel
• Airline
• A bus line, see List of bus operating companies

Business

• Line function, a business activity.
• Product lining, in marketing.

Military

• Line (formation), a standard tactical formation of forces.
  • Line infantry, a line formation of infantrymen who were part of the "Line Regiments".
• Line of battle, in naval warfare, a line of warships, hence "Ship of the line".

Sports

• In water sports: small rope
• The point spread in spread betting
• In cricket, the direction of a delivery, see line and length.
• Offensive line or defensive line in American football.
• Racing line, in auto racing, a path taken through a corner.
• In kiting: kite line
• In fishing: fishing line

Arts

• Line (play), a 1967 long-running play written by Israel Horovitz.
• Lines (Emily Brontë poem), written in December 1837.
• Lines Review, a Scottish literary periodical published between 1952 and 1998.
• "Lines", abbreviation for "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798", a poem by William Wordsworth
• A line of text in writing or typography.
• Line (poetry), the fundamental unit of poetic composition.
• The dialogue to be spoken in a script or screenplay.

Sewing and fashion

• To insert a Lining
• Fashion line
• Style line
• Empire line or Empire silhouette

The abbreviation LINE

• LINE (combat system), a martial arts system
• Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE), a type of retrotransposon in genomics.

Other

• Line (given name), a Danish and Norwegian female given name
• A length of rope, cable, or chain when put to use (such as a clothesline, anchor line)
• A line or queue of people waiting in a queue area
• A thin continuous length of ink or other marking in a drawing
• A geographical or political border that is clearly defined and demarcated
• Lines (punishment), punishment by forced writing of text
• Party line (politics), an idiom for a political party or social movement's canon agenda
• Lines of cocaine
• Lines (video game)
• A one-, two- or three-line whip, a notice issued by a Chief Whip in the UK parliament
• A "straight line" is used to set up a joke, while the punch line completes it
• Line Islands, an island group in the central Pacific
• Line, a drug in the video game Togainu no Chi

See also

• Division of Lyne, Australian electoral district
• Lyne (surname)
• Lyne, Denmark (town)
• Liner (disambiguation)
• Lining (disambiguation)