Word Finder - lining

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To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.

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to line troops

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To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.

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to line works with soldiers

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To form a line along.

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To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.

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to line a copy book

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To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.

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To read or repeat line by line.

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to line out a hymn

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To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.

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Jones lined to left in his last at-bat.

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To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.

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To measure.

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To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.

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The bird lines its nest with soft grass.

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To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.

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To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

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to line the shelves

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(of a dog) To copulate with, to impregnate.

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A covering for the inside surface of something.

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The material used for such a covering.

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The act of attaching such a covering.

They're all lining up now.

She thought she saw the glint of weapons lining his trench.

There is no silver lining when you make a deal with him.

The stone doors lining each side were all closed.

Bored after another tour around, she returned to the office to examine the books lining one wall.

Such crystals occur either in cavities in mineral-veins and in granitic rocks, or as a lining in agate geodes.

He suspected it was because the same mettle lining Dusty's backbone lined hers.

Xander barely resisted the urge to touch the finely woven garment with a fur lining that was certain to be the softest thing in the world.

A protoplasinic lining is found on their walls which contains nuclei.

This bolus is surrounded, as by a bag, by the cast-up lining of the gizzard.

Remains of the original marble wall lining and stucco decoration also exist.

This time, there was no mistaking the weapons lining his trench coat or the sword along one thigh.

The doors lining the halls were unmarked, and she began to suspect her plan would fail fast if she had to open every door in the hallway.

Mansr strode down one of the many paths lining the rocky hills, away from the encampment and into a part of the hills untouched by any but the moons' light.

The brunette waved in return and led her through the small town to a boardwalk lining the wide, slow-moving Mississippi River.

The soldier flashed a smile as he started down the narrow pathway lining the canal.

Rhyn looked up at the brightest of the portals lining the otherworldly landing between worlds.

His cold, chiseled features were bathed in the light of a streetlamp while his room was dark, aside from light lining the cracked bathroom door.

He all but dragged her through the quiet, stinking roads of Corcoran, seething, oblivious to the wooden huts lining the muddied street on each side of them.

Memon presided over all before him, at times as still as the statues lining the halls and at times barking orders for more wine or shouting at servants who placed food wrong on the tables.

The one-room shack was neat, with pallets on one side, a fire at its center, a small area to prepare food and crates lining one wall that acted both as storage and seating.

Right now, he wanted to touch the lining, to see if it would bring him comfort.

The communication with the atrium is guarded by a valvula cardiaca dextra, which only in function represents the mammalian tricuspid; it consists of an oblique reduplication of the muscular fibres together with the endocardiac lining of the right ventricle, while the opposite wall is convex and forms neither a velum nor papillary muscles, nor chordae tendineae.

Beneath this again is a distinct peritoneum lining the coelom, which appears to be wanting as a special layer in some Polychaetes (Benham, Gilson).

In the majority of the Megascolicidae each sac is provided with one or more diverticula, tubular or oval in form, of a slightly different histological character in the lining epithelium, and in them is invariably lodged the sperm.

In both there are species which form no nest or burrow, others which construct a simple silk-lined tunnel in the soil, and others which close the aperture of the burrow with a hinged door; while both share the habit of lining the burrow with silk to prevent the infall of loose sand or mould; and the species which make an open burrow close the aperture with a sheet of silk in the winter during hibernation and open it again in the spring.

The walls and contents in some forms arise simultaneously; in others the walls are first formed and their lining then proliferates.

The ovary and testes are heaped-up masses of red or yellow cells due to a proliferation of the cells lining the coelom.

If the eye, provided if necessary with a perforated plate in order to reduce the aperture, be situated inside the shadow at a place where the illumination is still sensible, and be focused upon the diffracting edge, the light which it receives will appear to come from the neighbourhood of the edge, and will present the effect of a silver lining.

Black droplets of oil are seen in the epithelial cells lining the secreting tubules.

Thrombosis is an accident of not dissimilar character, whereby a vessel is blocked not by a travelling particle, but by a clotting of the blood in situ, probably on the occasion of some harm to the epithelial lining of the vessel.

The pressure developed was sufficient to crush an arched lining of two-foot granite blocks.

The base is double but the inner lining has an opening in the centre.

In starting the furnace, the bottom is prepared by ramming it with charcoal-powder that has been soaked in milk of lime and dried, so that each particle is coated with a film of lime, which serves to reduce the loss of current by conduction through the lining when the furnace becomes hot.

Glass stills heated by a sand bath are sometimes employed in the final distillation of sulphuric acid; platinum, and an alloy of platinum and iridium with a lining of gold rolled on (a discovery due to Heraeus), are used for the same purpose.

Another feat of his was to apply a lining of silver to a shakudo box by shaping and hammering only, the fit being so perfect that the lining clung like paper to every part of the box.

The lining of these pits is amply supplied with branches from the trigeminal nerves, but the f unction is still quite unknown.

In the latter case the larva crawls about the bottom of the water or up the stems of plants, with its thickly-chitinized head and legs protruding from the larger orifice, while it maintains a secure hold of the silk lining of the tube by means of a pair of strong hooks at the posterior end of its soft defenceless abdomen.

Of these methods one of the chief is the plan of tubbing, or lining the excavation with an impermeable casing of wood or iron, generally the latter, built up in segments forming rings, which are piled upon each other throughout the whole depth of the water-bearing strata.

The water-tight lining may be either a wrought iron tube, which is pressed down by jack screws as the borehole advances, or cast iron tubbing put together in short complete rings, in contradistinction to the old plan of building them up of segments.

The guides or conductors in the pit may be constructed of wood, in which case rectangular fir beams, about 3 by 4 in., are used, attached at intervals of a few feet to buntons or cross-beams built into the lining of the pit.

Water trickles continuously into the trough, and the centrifugal action holds it as an inside lining against the rim, where it slowly evaporates.

The eggs are laid usually in holes in trees, rocks, or the ground, no lining being formed.

As a result of this change of form the gastric cavity or coelenteron becomes of compressed lenticular form, and the endoderm lining it can be distinguished as an upper or exumbral layer and a lower or subumbral layer.

The canal of the cervix is about an inch long, and is spindle-shaped when looked at from in front; its anterior and posterior walls are in contact, and its lining mucous membrane is raised into a pattern which, from its likeness to a cypress twig, is called the arbor vitae.

The vesiculae seminales are muscular sacs with a mucous lining which is thrown into a series of delicate net-like folds.

This cavity is excavated in a third mass of cells distinct from the cells lining the gut, forming the endoderm, and the cells covering the surface of the body, the ectoderm.

The renal organs are tubular outgrowths of the pericardial parts of the coelom; the reproductive cells are derived from cells lining the generative portion.

The stomach is formed upon much the same principle as that of the horse or rhinoceros, but is more elongated transversely and divided by a constriction into two cavities - a large left cul de sac, lined by a very dense white epithelium, and a right pyloric cavity, with a thick, soft, vascular lining.

Wigan is a name derived from the town Wigan and seems to have been originally applied to a stiff canvas-like cloth used for lining skirts.