line

/laɪn/

意味: 線、行、列

例文: June drew a magical line in the air.
　　  ジューンが空中に魔法の線を引いた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: straight line(直線), phone line(電話線), waiting line(待ち行列)

定義: 物や人が並んでいる状態や、物を区切るための細い印のことです。線や列、電話の回線など、いろいろな意味で使われます。

lineは約3,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a formation of people or things one beside another
Noun: a mark that is long relative to its width
Noun: a formation of people or things one behind another
Noun: a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
Noun: text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
Noun: a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
Noun: a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
Noun: a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
Noun: a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
Noun: a connected series of events or actions or developments
Noun: a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
Noun: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
Noun: a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
Noun: the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
Noun: a telephone connection
Noun: acting in conformity
Noun: the descendants of one individual
Noun: something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
Noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Noun: in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
Noun: (often plural) a means of communication or access
Noun: a particular kind of product or merchandise
Noun: a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
Noun: space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
Noun: the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
Noun: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
Noun: persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
Noun: a short personal letter
Noun: a conceptual separation or distinction
Noun: mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
Verb: be in line with; form a line along
Verb: cover the interior of
Verb: make a mark or lines on a surface
Verb: mark with lines
Verb: fill plentifully
Verb: reinforce with fabric

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Please stand behind the yellow line.(黄色い線の後ろに立ってください。)
She drew a line across the paper.(彼女は紙に線を引きました。)
The phone line is busy right now.(電話回線は今、話し中です。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the line of soldiers advanced with their bayonets fixed
Noun: they were arrayed in line of battle
Noun: the cast stood in line for the curtain call
Noun: He drew a line on the chart
Noun: the line stretched clear around the corner
Noun: you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter
Noun: the letter consisted of three short lines
Noun: there are six lines in every stanza
Noun: they attacked the enemy’s line
Noun: I can’t follow your line of reasoning
Noun: the government took a firm course
Noun: historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available
Noun: his face has many lines
Noun: ironing gets rid of most wrinkles
Noun: a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport
Noun: in line with
Noun: he got out of line
Noun: toe the line
Noun: his entire lineage has been warriors
Noun: a washing line
Noun: he’s not in my line of business
Noun: it must go through official channels
Noun: lines of communication were set up between the two firms
Noun: a nice line of shoes
Noun: she was humming an air from Beethoven
Noun: `let me show you my etchings’ is a rather worn line
Noun: he has a smooth line but I didn’t fall for it
Noun: that salesman must have practiced his fast line of talk
Noun: drop me a line when you get there
Noun: there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity
Verb: trees line the riverbank
Verb: line the gloves
Verb: line a chimney
Verb: draw a line
Verb: trace the outline of a figure in the sand
Verb: sorrow had lined his face
Verb: line one’s pockets
Verb: lined books are more enduring

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): agate line, air, ancestry, argument, argumentation, assembly line, bank line, billet, blood, blood line, bloodline, business, business line, cable, channel, communication channel, contrast, course, crease, credit line, crinkle, delineate, demarcation, descent, describe, dividing line, draw, furrow, job, line, line of business, line of credit, line of descent, line of merchandise, line of products, line of reasoning, line of work, lineage, logical argument, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, note, occupation, origin, parentage, pedigree, personal credit line, personal line of credit, phone line, pipeline, product line, production line, rail line, railway line, run along, seam, short letter, stemma, stock, strain, subscriber line, telephone circuit, telephone line, trace, transmission line, tune, wrinkle

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): activity, area unit, artifact, carrier, communication, conductor, conformity, connection, cover, credit, depression, differentiation, electromagnetic radiation, fill, formation, genealogy, lie, location, mark, mechanical system, merchandise, military position, music, personal letter, persuasion, pipe, reasoning, reinforce, road, score, series, shape, text

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): access road, acre, acting, actinic radiation, actinide series, agate line, aid, aluminize, americana, amorphous shape, anachronism, analysis, angular shape, antiphony, antiquity, are, argumentation, arm-twisting, arpent, article, attachment, attempt, bach, back, backbone, backfield, ballet, bank, bark, barn, base, beam, bedaub, beethoven, behavior, bespot, bilocation, bind, black-body radiation, blacklead, blanket, blindfold, blinker, block, board up, bolster, brahms, brand, bread, brim, brush, building material, burst, busbar, butter, button, buttress, buzz, byway, cable, calibration, canopy, canvas, cap, cargo, carpet, causeway, center, ceremony, chain, channel, cheap money, chimneypot, chopin, circle, clapboard, clearway, cloak, clog, clutter, coat, coif, column, column inch, commercial credit, commodity, complete, concealment, concrete, cone, conjecture, connection, contact, continuance, contraband, contradistinction, control, cookie, copy, cord, cordon, corduroy, course, covering, cowl, crape, creation, credit line, crevice, crisscross, crown, cup of tea, cycle, dance music, daub, decker, decoration, deduction, deluge, demand, dessiatine, detour, dimple, dip, discharge pipe, discussion, dismantling, dissuasion, distorted shape, diversion, domesticity, dominate, dot, draft, drain, dramaturgy, drape, drilling pipe, drive, driveway, dust, earth, east, education, elbow, electioneering, electrify, electrode, electromotive series, electronic text, electroplate, em, energizing, enjoyment, envelop, examination, excavation, exhaust pipe, exhortation, export credit, expostulation, expression, extra, fabric, face, facility, farce, feather, feature, felt, figure, fingerprint, fixture, flag, flake, flank, flare, flash, flight, float, foil, follow-up, footprint, formality, front, frost, fuel injection, fuel line, fun, game, gamma radiation, generic, gilbert and sullivan, grass, gravel, grease, groove, ground, grouping, hairsplitting, handel, harmony, haydn, head, heap, heat sink, hectare, helium group, here, hertzian wave, hierarchy, highway, hitch, hold, home, honoring, hood, hoofprint, hookup, import credit, impregnate, incision, inference, ink, insert, installment, instrumental music, instrumentality, intercommunication, intervene, ironmongery, irregular, jacket, jumper, junction, jungle, keeping, lag, lamentation, laminate, lanthanide series, lap, last, laughter, layer, leadership, lemon, letter, letter of credit, lightning rod, lime, line, lineage, linkage, lipogram, liveliness, load, localize, look out on, love letter, lubricate, lubricating system, lyric, mail, main, manifold, marker, market, mask, measurement, mediate, medium, microwave, military formation, mine, mintmark, monophony, morgen, mound over, mozart, mulch, music, music genre, musical composition, mystification, natural shape, negotiation, nestle, nexus, north, northeast, northwest, note, number, occupation, oil, opening, operation, organization, orient, outer space, overfill, overture, pack, pad, padding, paint, pall, paper, parcel, part music, pass, paste, paving, perch, persuasion, perturbation, pipeline, pizzicato, placement, plane, plank, plaster, plaything, pleasure, plume, point, politics, polyphony, polytonality, popularism, populate, post road, practice, precede, precession, prediction, prelude, preparation, prime, procedure, production line, progression, proselytism, protection, provision, puncture, put on, quarter section, raddle, radio wave, rash, ratiocination, ready-made, rear, recover, refill, refrain, region, regress, release, replenish, representation, restoration, ride, riser, roadway, role, roof, round shape, sag, scarify, schlock, scotch, scribe, search, seat, secondary, section, semiconductor device, sensory activity, sequence, serialism, service, sheathe, sheet, shortcut, shunt, side road, sin, skid road, slant, slip ring, sloganeering, smother, sod, sodom, software package, solid, solo, somewhere, south, southeast, southwest, space, space walk, sparge pipe, speck, speedway, sphere, spot, spray, spread, spritz, square, square foot, square inch, square meter, square mile, square yard, squeaker, stake, standpipe, stanza, star, stations, steam line, steel, stigmatize, stock, stravinsky, straw, striate, string, strip, stripe, stroke, structure, stuff, succession, suggestion, support, surcharge, surface, suspension, syncopation, synthesis, ta’ziyeh, tailpipe, telephone line, temporary hookup, there, thing, thoroughfare, tile, timekeeping, tip, top, top of the line, top off, trace, track, traffic, training, transmission, triangle, tune, turf, turn, turnoff, underlie, underline, use, variation, veneer, ventilation, verbalization, vocal music, wagner, wallpaper, wash, waste, wave train, waveguide, wax, way, weapon, weight, west, whereabouts, whiteout, wire, work, works, worship, wrap, wrinkle, writing, wrongdoing, x ray, yard goods, yoke

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): accountancy, aclinic line, actor’s line, agonic line, airline, appointment, ascender, axis, babbitt, back channel, balkline, bar line, baseline, battle line, battlefront, becket, bottom line, boundary, branch line, by-line, career, casuistry, catering, centerline, chorus, circumscribe, coaxial cable, confectionery, conga line, construct, consumer credit, cord, crest, crib, crisscross, cross hair, crow’s foot, curve, danger line, dateline, dermatoglyphic, descender, diagonal, digital subscriber line, dotted line, electrical cable, employment, excuse, face, family, farming, fault line, fiber optic cable, file, finishing line, firing line, flight line, flourish, foul line, frown line, game, gas line, geodesic, glissando, goal line, graduation, great circle, guideline, hairline, hatch, heading, hemline, hipline, horizon, hot line, inscribe, isogonic line, isogram, isometric line, land line, lanyard, latitude, ledger line, leitmotiv, lens, liaison, lifeline, line of battle, line of fate, line of force, line of heart, line of inquiry, line of life, line of march, line of poetry, line of sight, line of succession, linemen, lineup, lunar latitude, metier, mooring, oil pipeline, opening line, orphan, painter, part, party line, path, perimeter, photography, picket line, policy, position, power line, printer cable, private line, profession, punch line, quadrant, queue, railway, rank, ratline, red line, reline, rhumb line, rim, rivet line, rope, roulade, row, rubicon, scrimmage line, serif, service line, shaft, sheet, shroud, side, sideline, signature, snow line, sound bite, spectrum line, spiel, sport, squiggle, staff line, start, steamship company, straight line, strand, stream, theme, theme song, timber line, toll line, towline, trace, trade, transit line, trap line, treadmill, trend line, trunk line, verse, water line, waterline, watershed, wats, write, yard line

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: argue, channel, channelize, contrast, crease, crinkle, crinkly, delineation, demarcate, descend, drawing, furrow, line, lineal, lineation, liner, lining, melodious, melodize, occupy, parent, trace, tracer, tracing, wrinkle

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics, science, technology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: