Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The number of lines of printed or written material.
- noun Payment for written work at a specified amount per line.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
lineage . - noun Lining; arrangement in line.
- noun In printing:
- noun The quantity of matter estimated in lines.
- noun Payment or rate of payment by the line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
lineage .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
lineage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the number of lines in a piece of printed material
- noun a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
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Examples
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Back in the school, Jeremy approaches Alaric who gives Jeremy a new start if he writes a paper on the history and linage of Mystic Falls.
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He was a fairly unheralded recruit — UW didn't offer him a scholarship despite his linage.
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Comare that to Tonga where the country is ruled by a feudal system consisting of a linage of kings and Nobles whom pass their rights onto their sons.
Global Voices in English » Fiji faces suspension from Pacific Islands Forum 2009
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Back in the school, Jeremy approaches Alaric who gives Jeremy a new start if he writes a paper on the history and linage of Mystic Falls.
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And more than once I have traced linage of ideas from Weimar Germany to now, connecting leaders then, to new leaders, to leaders who started and copied things over here.
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Sarah Palin could easily be the newest species in a highly successful linage of patsies.
Shan Wells: Toonblog: The Natural History Of Sarah Palin 2009
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There is some natural curiosity about how The Reverend Professor John Mazurek 1919 – 2oo3 and I came to be heirs of the Cyril Fagan legacy linage when he said it was so we took his word for it.
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Count Gramalkin www.countgramalkin.com is the home of Count Gramalkin; Professional Western Sidereal Zodiacal Astrologer, Tarot Reader and the foremost practicing direct heir from his chosen linage of the astrological insights, knowledge and research of the modern day father of astrology, the great world famous Western Sidereal Astrologer Astronomer Cyril Fagan of Dublin, Ireland 1896-1970.
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From Egypt to Syria to Germany, Jews living in the land of Mesopotamia which is now Israel can trace their linage back 3000 years and they never asked to own the land.
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Eric suggested that Allen Page (who has Democrat linage) might be less advantageous to Coleman than a conservative justice.
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