Line
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
Films
- Lines (film), a 2016 Greek film
- The Line (2023 film), an American drama
- The Line (2022 film), a Swiss, French, and Belgian drama
- The Line (2017 film), a Slovak-Ukrainian crime film
- The Line (2009 film), an American action-crime film
- The Line, a 2009 independent film by Nancy Schwartzman
Podcasts
- The Line (podcast), 2021 by Dan Taberski
Literature
- Line (comics), a term to describe a subset of comic book series by a publisher
- Line (play), by Israel Horovitz, 1967
- Line (poetry), the fundamental unit of poetic composition
- "Lines" (poem), an 1837 poem by Emily Brontë
- The Line (memoir), by Arch and Martin Flanagan
- The Line (play), by Timberlake Wertenbaker, 2009
Albums
Songs
- "Line" (song), 2017 single by Triana Park
- "Lines" (song), 1976 single by The Walker Brothers
- "The Line" (Foo Fighters song), 2017
- "The Line" (Lisa Stansfield song), 1997
- "The Line" (Raye song), 2017
- "Line", 2018 song by The Story So Far from Proper Dose
- "LINE", 2015 single by Sukima Switch
- "The Line", 2010 single by Battles
- "The Line", 2000 song by Sadist from Lego
- "The Line", 1995 song by Bruce Springsteen from The Ghost of Tom Joad
Other uses in music
- Line (melody), a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity
- Line (music) or part, a strand or melody of music played by an individual instrument or voice
Television
- The Line (game show), a 2014 American game show
- The Line (TV series), a Canadian television series
- "The Line" (Heroes), a 2007 episode of the American television series Heroes
- The Line, a 2021 documentary series directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Doug Shultz
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
Land warfare
- Line (formation), standard tactical formation of forces
- Line infantry, line formation of infantrymen who were part of the "Line Regiments"
- 'Lines' is another word for fortifications
Sea warfare
- Line of battle, in naval warfare, a line of warships
- Line officer, (naval) officer qualified to command a vessel
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)
- Samuel Lines (1778–1863) and his sons
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
Flexible ligatures
- Fishing line, used (or intended) for angling
- Kite line, cord for kite flying
Competitive sports
- Line (ice hockey), group of forwards that play in a group, or "shift", during a game
- Line and length, direction, and distance, to first bounce on the pitch, in delivery in cricket
- Line of scrimmage, in American and Canadian football
- Racing line, in auto racing, path taken through a corner
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
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