Line

Look up Line, line, or líne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Line most often refers to:

Line (geometry), object that has zero thickness and curvature and stretches to infinity
Telephone line, a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system

Line, lines, The Line, or LINE may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Line (melody), a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity
Line (music) or part, a strand or melody of music played by an individual instrument or voice

The Line (game show), a 2014 American game show
The Line (TV series), a Canadian television series
"The Line" (Heroes), a 2007 episode of the American television series Heroes
The Line, a 2021 documentary series directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Doug Shultz

Below the line, an advertising term
Bottom line, or profit line, net profit
Line function, primary business activity that negatively affects income if interrupted
Line item, an accounting term
Line of business, a product or set of related products
Poverty line, an economics term
Product lining, offering several related products for sale individually

Line (electrical engineering), any circuit or loop of an electrical system
- Line level, a common standard for audio signals
- Transmission line, a specialized structure designed to carry alternating current of radio frequency
Line (text file), a row of characters as a unit of organization within text files
Line (video), a measure of video display resolution or image resolution
Line Corporation, a Tokyo-based technology company
- Line (software), a social messaging application operated by Line Corporation

Line (formation), standard tactical formation of forces
Line infantry, line formation of infantrymen who were part of the "Line Regiments"
'Lines' is another word for fortifications

Line (given name), a Scandinavian female given name
Line (singer) (born 1996), a Danish singer and finalist in the Danish X Factor
Lines (surname)
The Lines family of Birmingham, England, including:
- Samuel Lines (1778–1863) and his sons
  - Samuel Rostill Lines (1804–1833)
  - Frederick Thomas Lines (1808–1898)
  - Henry Harris Lines (1800 or 1801–1889)

Líně, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic
Linesøya, an island in the municipality of Åfjord in Norway
The Line, Saudi Arabia, a planned city in Saudi Arabia
Line Islands, an island group in the central Pacific
The Line (sculpture trail), based on the Greenwich Meridian, in South East and East London

Fault line, a geological term
Inbred line, either of:
- Inbred strain or linear organisms, model organisms that are nearly genetically identical and are used in laboratories
- Products of line breeding, a technique in animal and plant agriculture and horticulture
Lineage (evolution), a sequence of species that form a line of descent
Long interspersed nuclear element, or LINE, a DNA sequence of two non-overlapping reading frames, accounting for 21% of human DNA
Maxwell (unit), the unit of magnetic flux, formerly called line

Line (ice hockey), group of forwards that play in a group, or "shift", during a game
Line and length, direction, and distance, to first bounce on the pitch, in delivery in cricket
Line of scrimmage, in American and Canadian football
Racing line, in auto racing, path taken through a corner

Airline, a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight
Log-line, in nautical usage, a piece of rope which has been assigned a function
Shipping line, a company engaged in sea transport
Railway line, a railway route or service
Waterline, the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water

Line (unit), an obsolete unit of length equal to one-twelfth or one-tenth of an inch
The Line, a website and social media campaign promoting respectful relationships, run by Our Watch in Australia
LINE (combat system), a martial arts system
Line (graphics), a narrow field between two points
Line (heraldry), used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry
Queue area, known in American English as a place to stand "in line"
Writing lines, a form of school punishment