Meaning

12 senses
  1. (intransitive)To appear in a lineout.

  2. (intransitive)To take part in a sports event.

  3. (transitive)To create (something, e.g. parking spaces, lanes in a road) by marking lines on asphalt.

  4. (transitive)To plant in a line.

  5. (name, transitive)To remove from effective inclusion on a list by crossing an item off; to cross out.

  6. (transitive)To chant each line of a hymn before the congregation must sing it, as an aid for those worshippers who can not read out of a hymnbook.

  7. (transitive)To outline (something) to be finished later (often by lining in the drawing).

  8. (broadly, transitive)To generally and briefly predict or describe (something).

  9. (intransitive)To line up; to form a line.

  10. (intransitive)To move or hurry away.

  11. (transitive)To apply border lines to (something) in a contrasting colour.

  12. (intransitive)To become out by hitting a line drive which is caught.

    Jones lined out to second.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. There's a line out the door.

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  2. This bus line goes out of the city.

  3. Diego got in line, checked out and left the store.

  4. We pulled the lyrics line by line out of a hat.

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  5. Read the highlighted line out loud.

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Forms

lines out, lining out, lined out, lined out
Base formline out · to line out
3rd person singularlines out
Present participlelining out
Past simplelined out
Past participlelined out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyline out
he, she, itlines out

Past simpleLesson

all personslined out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave lined out
he, she, ithas lined out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill line out

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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