Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of marking or outlining with lines.
- noun An outline.
- noun An arrangement of lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A marking by lines; disposition or arrangement of lines.
- noun In zoology, one or more line-like marks on a surface; the appearance or form of a lineated surface: as, the lineation of the thorax of a fly.
- noun Mensuration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Delineation; a line or lines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A
linear feature in rock, often structural - noun literature The way in which
line breaks are inserted in apoem
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of marking or outlining with lines
- noun the line that appears to bound an object
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Williams's lineation is called upon to play a fundamental role in the poem.
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003
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(Original lineation is evident, of course, in the facsimile images.)
Annotated Text 1918
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They had to be transcribed, entailing a whole series of choices about lineation, punctuation, and orthography.
Is Rap Poetry? The Poetry Foundation 2011
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Its short lines are reminiscent of Plath, but it has a restraint that lightens the effect of the lineation.
Vendler on Armitage: the willingness not to make a point…not to be witty 2009
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Its short lines are reminiscent of Plath, but it has a restraint that lightens the effect of the lineation.
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Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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They had to be transcribed, entailing a whole series of choices about lineation, punctuation, and orthography.
Is Rap Poetry? The Poetry Foundation 2011
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Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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Others see him as a statesman, who does not let party lineation get in the way of doing what must be done.
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But this lineation holds them over against pure banality just enough to let them emerge as capable of bearing attention and hence of becoming fascinating in their own right.
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003
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