Linie — meaning in English
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English meaning
- curve noun A smoothly bending line, with no sharp corners.
- equator noun The imaginary line around the middle of the Earth, equally distant from the North and South Poles, dividing it into two hemispheres.
- file noun A collection of related documents or data stored together, whether on paper or on a computer.
- line noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
- strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.
Senses
Linie is used for these senses in English:
- curve (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- equator (geography, often, _, “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.
- file (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- line (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- line (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- line A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- line (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- line (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
curve — full definition
- noun A smoothly bending line, with no sharp corners.
- verb To bend gradually rather than at a sharp angle.
- noun A system of grading students relative to how the whole class performed, rather than against a fixed standard.