Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to line
Participle: lined
Gerund: lining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | line |
| you | line |
| he;she;it | lines |
| we | line |
| you | line |
| they | line |
Perfect
| I | have lined |
| you | have lined |
| he;she;it | has lined |
| we | have lined |
| you | have lined |
| they | have lined |
Past
| I | lined |
| you | lined |
| he;she;it | lined |
| we | lined |
| you | lined |
| they | lined |
Pluperfect
| I | had lined |
| you | had lined |
| he;she;it | had lined |
| we | had lined |
| you | had lined |
| they | had lined |
Future
| I | will line |
| you | will line |
| he;she;it | will line |
| we | will line |
| you | will line |
| they | will line |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lined |
| you | will have lined |
| he;she;it | will have lined |
| we | will have lined |
| you | will have lined |
| they | will have lined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | line |
| you | line |
| he;she;it | line |
| we | line |
| you | line |
| they | line |
Perfect
| I | have lined |
| you | have lined |
| he;she;it | have lined |
| we | have lined |
| you | have lined |
| they | have lined |
Imperfect
| I | lined |
| you | lined |
| he;she;it | lined |
| we | lined |
| you | lined |
| they | lined |
Pluperfect
| I | had lined |
| you | had lined |
| he;she;it | had lined |
| we | had lined |
| you | had lined |
| they | had lined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would line |
| you | would line |
| he;she;it | would line |
| we | would line |
| you | would line |
| they | would line |
Perfect
| I | would have lined |
| you | would have lined |
| he;she;it | would have lined |
| we | would have lined |
| you | would have lined |
| they | would have lined |
Imperative
| you | line |
| we | Let's line |
| you | line |
Verbs conjugated like 'line'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'line'
aline,
dine,
fine,
kline,
lene,
lie,
lige,
like,
lime,
lin,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *līno-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *līną
4. Proto-Germanic *līnǭ
5. Proto-West Germanic *līnā
6. Old English līne
7. Middle English line
8. English line
9. From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).
10. Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.
11. The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.
Sample Sentences
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“That undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns.”[1] [ 1 ] A slightly inaccurate quotation from _Hamlet_, Act III, scene I, lines 369-370. ~~~ A missionary figure among the fugitives in Canada told us that many of the fugitives confessed themselves to have escaped from comparatively kind masters, and that they were induced to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] the same kind of country until evening, when we come to the town where we are to stop for tea and supper; and having delivered the mail bags at the Post-office, ride through the usual wide street, lined with the usual stores and houses (the drapers always having hung up at their door, by way of sign, a piece of bright red cloth ), to the hotel where this meal is prepared. There being many boarders [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[ 1 ] _Hamlet_, Act I, scene 1, lines 115-116 And, therefore, their all hitting upon this is a striking fact in pneumatology, which we recommend to the attention of spiritual media generally.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)