| BLOODLINE | • bloodline n. The abstract link between a person and their ancestors. • bloodline n. The pedigree of an animal. • bloodline n. By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product. |
| BREADLINE | • breadline n. A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity. • breadline n. (Figurative) Subsistence level. • bread␣line n. Alternative spelling of breadline. |
| BROADLINE | • broadline adj. (Business) Selling a wide range of groceries. • broadline adj. (Archaeology) Having a broad line inscribed or drawn. • broadline adj. (Chemistry) Designating a technique in nuclear magnetic resonance. (Can we add an example for this sense?) |
| DEADLINE | • deadline n. A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed. • deadline n. (Archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press. • deadline n. (Archaic) A line that does not move. (Can we add an example for this sense?) |
| HANDLINE | • handline n. (Fishing) A single fishing line without a rod, but usually attached to a reel, held in the hands. • handline n. A firefighting hose held and directed by a team of people. • handline v. (Fishing) To fish with a single fishing line held in the hands. |
| HARDLINE | • hardline n. (Business) A retail product collection consisting primarily of hardware targeting the do-it-yourself customer. • hardline n. (Business) A retail product collection which includes many non-information goods, such as home appliances… • hardline n. (Telephony) A physical wire or cable connection; landline. |
| HEADLINE | • headline n. (Journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article. • headline n. (Printing, dated) The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page. • headline n. (Entertainment) The top-billed attraction. |
| LANDLINE | • landline n. A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable. • landline n. (By extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless/mobile. • landline n. (Attributively) That which is connected by such a fixed wire (Telephone, internet etc.). |
| MIDLINE | • midline n. (Anatomy, medicine) The medial line (or plane) of the body, which divides the body into halves that… • midline n. (Typography) The level of the top of the x-height of a typeface. • MIDLINE n. a median line. |
| POSTDEADLINE | • postdeadline adj. After a deadline. • POSTDEADLINE adj. following a deadline. |
| REDLINE | • redline n. A drawing, document, etc. that has been marked for correction or modification. • redline n. The maximum speed, temperature, pressure, etc., at which a device (Such as the engine in a car, aircraft… • redline v. To mark a drawing or document for correction or modification. |
| STRANDLINE | • strandline n. The linear mark left (on a beach etc) by high water. • strand␣line n. (Geology) the line that marks the interface between land and water; a shoreline; it changes daily, and… • STRANDLINE n. the shoreline. |
| WEEDLINE | • WEEDLINE n. the edge of a weedbed. |