Look up Line, line, or líne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Line most often refers to:

• Line (geometry), object that has zero thickness and curvature and stretches to infinity
• Telephone line, a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system

Line, lines, The Line, or LINE may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Business

• Below the line, an advertising term
• Bottom line, or profit line, net profit
• Line function, primary business activity that negatively affects income if interrupted
• Line item, an accounting term
• Line of business, a product or set of related products
• Poverty line, an economics term
• Product lining, offering several related products for sale individually

Computing and telecommunications

• Line (electrical engineering), any circuit or loop of an electrical system
  • Line level, a common standard for audio signals
  • Transmission line, a specialized structure designed to carry alternating current of radio frequency
• Line (text file), a row of characters as a unit of organization within text files
• Line (video), a measure of video display resolution or image resolution
• Line Corporation, a Tokyo-based technology company
  • Line (software), a social messaging application operated by Line Corporation

Military

People

• Line (given name), a Scandinavian female given name
• Line (singer) (born 1996), a Danish singer and finalist in the Danish X Factor
• Lines (surname)
• The Lines family of Birmingham, England, including:
  • Samuel Lines (1778–1863) and his sons
    • Samuel Rostill Lines (1804–1833)
    • Frederick Thomas Lines (1808–1898)
    • Henry Harris Lines (1800 or 1801–1889)

Places

• Líně, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic
• Linesøya, an island in the municipality of Åfjord in Norway
• The Line, Saudi Arabia, a planned city in Saudi Arabia
• Line Islands, an island group in the central Pacific
• The Line (sculpture trail), based on the Greenwich Meridian, in South East and East London

Science

• Fault line, a geological term
• Inbred line, either of:
  • Inbred strain or linear organisms, model organisms that are nearly genetically identical and are used in laboratories
  • Products of line breeding, a technique in animal and plant agriculture and horticulture
• Lineage (evolution), a sequence of species that form a line of descent
• Long interspersed nuclear element, or LINE, a DNA sequence of two non-overlapping reading frames, accounting for 21% of human DNA
• Maxwell (unit), the unit of magnetic flux, formerly called line

Sports

Transport

• Airline, a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight
• Log-line, in nautical usage, a piece of rope which has been assigned a function
• Shipping line, a company engaged in sea transport
• Railway line, a railway route or service
• Waterline, the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water

Other uses

• Line (unit), an obsolete unit of length equal to one-twelfth or one-tenth of an inch
• The Line, a website and social media campaign promoting respectful relationships, run by Our Watch in Australia
• LINE (combat system), a martial arts system
• Line (graphics), a narrow field between two points
• Line (heraldry), used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry
• Queue area, known in American English as a place to stand "in line"
• Writing lines, a form of school punishment

See also

• A-line (clothing), a style of skirt or dress
• Line cook, a chef who works a station in a professional restaurant
• Linear (disambiguation)
• Liner (disambiguation)
• Lining (disambiguation)
• Lyne (disambiguation)
• Iine (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Line