Word Meanings - LINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Flax; linen. "Garments made of line." Spenser. 2. The longer and fiber of flax.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LINE)

• Avocation
• Profession
• calling
• lot
• employment
• vocation
• occupation
• business
• pursuit
• line
• Career
• Course
• success
• walk
• progress
• history
• race
• Order
• sequence
• continuity
• direction
• way
• mode
• career
• road
• route
• series
• passage
• succession
• round
• manner
• plan
• conduct
• method
• Department
• Section
• division
• portion
• function
• office
• branch
• province
• Direction
• tendency
• inclination
• control
• command
• bearing
• superscription
• order
• address

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LINE)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to LINE)

• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.