línea

Meaning

1. (feminine) line (a straight path through two or more points)
2. (feminine) line (a piece of spoken dialogue in a script)
3. (feminine) line (a path for electrical current)
4. (feminine) telephone line (a physical telephone connection or a single telephony account)
5. (feminine) party line (an established policy that politicians should adhere to)
6. (feminine, figuratively) line (similar directives in business and other contexts)
7. (feminine) policy (the actual regulations and behavior of government agencies)
8. (feminine, slang) line (a long thin pile of cocaine or other drug)
9. (feminine, historical) linea, Spanish line (a traditional small unit of length, equivalent to 1.9 mm)
10. (feminine) queue (British), line (US)

Concepts

line

row

lineage

figure

bloodline

range

rank

origin

round

way

route

parentage

path

🛣️

ancestry

stock

blood

🩸

kin

kinfolk

kinsfolk

letter

limit

lines

note

order

pedigree

phone line

phratry

queue

railway line

relatives

series

shape

sideline

speech

stria

stripe

symbol

telephone circuit

telephone line

transmission line

vein

words

blood line

line of descent

Sept

short letter

stemma

subscriber line

stretch marks

supply line

Synonyms

fila

hilera

renglón

trazo

raya

rasgo

dirección

familia

👪

estilo

estría

figura

franja

frase

hilo

🧵

letra

límite

linaje

lista

orden

origen

papel

parentesco

pista

registro

sangre

🩸

serie

surco

término

🔚

trayectoria

turno

vez

⌚

vía

abolengo

contraste

demarcación

estirpe

garabato

línea divisoria

pauta

pedigrí

saga

trazado

verso

surco fino

fibras nerviosas cerebrales

línea telefónica

línea de transmisión

línea ferroviaria

circuito telefónico

línea de teléfono

Translations

ligne

linea

linha

Linie

línia

lijn

Zeile

γραμμή

riga

Strich

Reihe

regel

fila

Hyphenated as

lí‧ne‧a

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlinea/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin: līnea

Cognate with Portuguese: linha

Cognate with Galician: liña

Cognate with Catalan: línia

In summary

Borrowed from Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Compare the inherited Old Spanish form liña, still used in archaic modern Spanish. Cognate with Portuguese linha, Galician liña, and Catalan línia and llinya.

Sentences

La línea incluye un pasillo sin usar en el medio de una vía .

The line includes an unused corridor in the middle of a track.

Manténgase detrás de la línea divisoria .

Stay behind the dividing line.

Esta línea corresponde notablemente bien con la frontera actual .

This line corresponds remarkably well with the current border.

El pueblo sirvió como la terminal de una línea de diligencias .

The village served as the terminus of a stagecoach line.

Esta es la línea argumental en la cual los diferentes personajes se moverán .

This is the plot line in which the different characters will move.

Actualmente toda la línea ferroviaria en la provincia se encuentra en ruinas y abandonada .

Currently the entire railway line in the province is in ruins and abandoned.