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Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈli.ne.a/
"Dibuja una línea recta en el papel."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A long, narrow mark or band.
"Draw a straight line across the paper." - 2
A continuous extent of length, straight or curved, without breadth.
"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from Old English 'līne', meaning 'rope, cord, wire', stemming from Proto-Germanic *līnīn, and reinforced by Latin 'līnea' (linen thread, plumb line). Over time, the semantic scope expanded from physical strings and threads to geometric paths, text rows, telecommunications channels, and boundaries.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Line" is said worldwide
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ligne
Transliteration: /liɲ/
"Tracez une ligne droite sur la page."
Linie
Transliteration: /ˈliːni̯ə/
"Zeichnen Sie eine gerade Linie auf das Papier."
linea
Transliteration: /ˈli.ne.a/
"Traccia una linea retta sul foglio."
línea
Transliteration: /ˈli.ne.a/
"Dibuja una línea recta en el papel."
linha
Transliteration: /ˈli.ɲɐ/
"Desenhe uma linha reta no papel."
रेखा
Transliteration: rekha
"कागज पर एक सीधी रेखा खींचें।"
线
Transliteration: xiàn
"在纸上画一条直线。"
선
Transliteration: seon
"종이에 직선을 그리세요."
線
Transliteration: sen
"紙にまっすぐな線を引いてください。"
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