Line
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A line is a path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
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Etymology
From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līn- (“flax”).
Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.
The oldest sense of the word is "rope, cord, thread"; from this the senses "path", "continuous mark" were derived.
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See also
- A Line Made by Walking by English artist Richard Long
- Walking the line
- Boundary
- Line (poetry)
- Thin
- Demarcation
- It's a thin line between love and hate
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