different between line vs kin

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?n, IPA^(key): /la?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English l?ne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *l?n?, from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”).

Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.

The oldest sense of the word is "rope, cord, thread"; from this the senses "path", "continuous mark" were derived.

Noun

line (plural lines)

1. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
   1. (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.

      Synonym: straight line

   2. (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.

      Synonym: line segment

   3. (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
   4. (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
   5. (geography, ‘the line’ or ‘equinoctial line’) The equator.
      • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 1:

        Benin […] is situated nearly under the line, and extends along the coast about 170 miles […] .
   6. (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
   7. (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
   8. (soccer) The goal line.
   9. (motoring) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
2. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
3. A hose or pipe, of any size.
   • 1973, Final Environmental Statement for the Geothermal Leasing Program (US department of the interior):

     There is the possible hazard of an oil spill in case the line breaks but normal pipeline maintenance and safety measures, etc., are designed to prevent large or long continued spillage.

   • 1981 October, Popular Science, volume 219, number 4, page 113:

     To the end of the metal fuel line (where it fits into the carb) you attach a four-foot length of flexible fuel line.

4. Direction, path.

5. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.

6. A clothesline.
7. A letter, a written form of communication.

   Synonyms: epistle, letter, note

8. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.

9. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
10. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
11. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
12. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.

    • The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

13. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.

    • The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

14. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
15. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
16. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16^thc.]

    Synonyms: (Canada) lineup, (UK, Ireland) queue
17. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
19. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
    • Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
20. A small amount of text. Specifically:
    1. A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.

       Synonym: row

    2. A verse (in poetry).
    3. A sentence of dialogue, especially [from the later 19^thc.] in a play, movie, or the like.
    4. A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.

21. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. [from earlier 17^thc.]
22. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction. [from later 19^thc.]

23. (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
24. A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself. [from earlier 19^thc.]

25. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
26. A measure of length:
    1. (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
    2. One twelfth of an inch.
    3. One fortieth of an inch.
27. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
28. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
29. (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.

    Synonym: line of engagement
30. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).

31. A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
32. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.

    • Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.

33. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
34. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
35. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
36. (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
37. (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.

Derived terms

Related terms

• (geometry) curve, point, segment
• lineage
• lineal
• linear

Translations

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

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

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
3. (transitive) To form a line along.
4. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
6. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
   • 1897, Daniel Webster Davis, “De Linin’ ub de Hymns”, quoted in Jerma A. Jackson, “Exuberance or Restraint: Music and Religion after Reconstruction”, in Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8078-2860-1, page 15:

     De young folks say ’tain’t stylish to lin’ ’um no mo’; / Dat deys got edikashun, an’ dey wants us all to know / Dey like to hab dar singin’-books a-holin’ fore dar eyes, / An’ sing de hymns right straight along “to manshuns in de skies”.
7. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.

8. (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
9. (transitive) To measure.

Derived terms

• line up
• underline

Translations

Etymology 2

Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen.

Alternative forms

• lin

Noun

line (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
   • a. 1818, J. C. Atkinson (ed.), North Riding Record Society (publisher), Quarter sessions records VIII p. 52 (compilation of historical records published in 1890, as quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary in 1902):

     To spin 2 lb. of line.

   • 1837, Everett, S. Hick 195:

     Which proved fatal to the line or flax crops.

   • 1858, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, page 409:

     1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   • 1869, Dixon, Borrowdale, 2:

     T'burring o' t'woo' an' line wheels,

Translations

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

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

2. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
3. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

Derived terms

(terms derived from the verb "line"):

• line one's pockets

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French ligner.

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

1. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) To copulate with, to impregnate.
   • 1868 September, The Country Gentleman's Magazine, page 292:

     Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black.

Translations

Gallery

References

line in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• LEIN, Neil, Niel, Nile, lien

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English line.

Noun

line f (invariable)

1. line management
2. editing (of a TV programme)

Related terms

• off-line
• on-line

Anagrams

• lenì

Latin

Verb

line

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lin?

References

• line in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lyne, lin, lyene
• ligne (influenced by Old French ligne)

Etymology 1

From Old English l?ne, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?. Some forms and meanings are from Old French ligne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n(?)/

Noun

line (plural lines)

1. rope, cord
2. line, rule, ruler, measure
3. (figuratively) rule, direction, command, edict
4. line, straight mark; also a fictitious line
5. (written) line, verse

Descendants

• English: line

References

• “l?ne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-23.

Etymology 2

From Old English l?n.

Noun

line (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lyne

References

• “lin,, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²li?n?/

Etymology 1

From Latin linea

Alternative forms

• linje

Noun

line f (definite singular lina, indefinite plural liner, definite plural linene)

1. a line (a continuous mark through two or more points; a succession of ancestors or descendants; the stated position of an individual or group)

Derived terms

• kystline
• skiljeline

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lína

Noun

line f (definite singular lina, indefinite plural liner, definite plural linene)

1. a line (a strong rope, cord, string, wire)

References

• “line” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”). Akin to Old High German l?na (“line”) (German Leine (“rope”)), Middle Dutch l?ne (“rope, cord”) (Dutch lijn (“rope”)), Old Norse l?na (“cord, rope”) (Danish line (“rope, cord”)), Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?.ne/

Noun

l?ne f

1. line, rope, cable
2. row, series
3. direction, rule

Declension

Related terms

• l?n
• l?nen, linnen

Descendants

• Middle English: line, lyne
  • English: line

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

Pronoun

liné

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

Spanish

Noun

line m (plural lines)

1. (rugby) lineout

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n, IPA^(key): /k?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English kin, kyn, ken, kun, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank, quality, family, generation, offspring, pedigree, kin, race, people, gender, sex, propriety, etiquette”), from Proto-Germanic *kunj? (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *?n?h?yom, from *?enh?- (“to produce”). Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek ????? (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit ???? (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).

Noun

kin (countable and uncountable, plural kin)

1. Race; family; breed; kind.
2. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
   • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

     You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
3. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
4. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
5. Kind; sort; manner; way.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• kith
• clan

Further reading

• kin at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Kin in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Adjective

kin (not comparable)

1. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".

   It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

kin (plural kins)

1. A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
   • 1899, Hugo Riemann, Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation

     Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.

   • 1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository (page 40)

     If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.

Etymology 3

Noun

kin (plural kins)

1. Alternative form of k'in

Etymology 4

Verb

kin

1. Pronunciation spelling of can.

Anagrams

• -nik, Nik, ink

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kin, from Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *?énus.

Noun

kin (plural kinne)

1. Alternative form of ken.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?n]
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

kin

1. genitive plural of kino

Anagrams

• nik

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *?énus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n/
• Hyphenation: kin
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)

1. chin

Derived terms

• kinlijn
• onderkin

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kin

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Pronoun

kin

1. who

Hungarian

Etymology

ki +? -n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kin]

Pronoun

kin

1. superessive singular of ki

Ido

Etymology

From French cinq, Spanish cinco, Italian cinque, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Numeral

kin

1. five (5)

Japanese

Romanization

kin

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Min Nan

Navajo

Etymology

Compare Dogrib k??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kx???n]

Noun

kin

1. market, store

2. house, cabin, building
3. town

Inflection

Synonyms

• (town): kin shijaa?, kin ?ání, kintah

Derived terms

• k??h (“into the town”)
• kinsáá? (“ruin”)

See also

• hooghan

Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kin

1. him

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

kin ?

1. short

Synonyms

• kurt
• qut
• quse

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German kinne, kin, from Old Saxon kinni.

Noun

kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)

1. chin

Derived terms

• ûnderkin

Further reading

• “kin”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yagara

Noun

kin

1. Alternative form of ginn.

References

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.