(v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
(v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
(v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
(v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
(n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
(n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
(n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
(n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
(n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
(n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
(n.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
(n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
(n.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
(n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
(n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
(n.) Lineament; feature; figure.
(n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
(n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
(n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
(n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
(n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
(n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
(n.) A measuring line or cord.
(n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
(n.) Instruction; doctrine.
(n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
(n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
(n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
(n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
(n.) A trench or rampart.
(n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
(n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
(n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
(n.) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
(n.) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.
(n.) The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
(n.) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
(n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
(v. t.) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
(v. t.) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
(v. t.) To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
(v. t.) To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(3) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(4) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(5) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(6) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(7) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(8) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(9) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(10) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(11) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(12) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(13) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
(14) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
(15) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
(16) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(17) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
(18) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(19) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
(20) N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities from other cell lines were also recovered in the cytosol.
Lineal
Definition:
(a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
(a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
(a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.
(a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) 29 punctures were practiced on 19 patients, 9 women and 10 men of ages comprised between 34 and 94 years, with lesions in different organs of the abdominal cavity diagnosed by ultrasonography with real time equipment and lineal 3.5 and 5 MHz transducers.
(2) With this modification one obtains, for sparsely ionizing radiation, a quality factor which is proportional to the dose average of lineal energy, y.
(3) A direct relationship between total plasmatic salicylate and its free fraction was found together with an inverse proportion between percentage of total free--salicylate and plasma pH and a lineal correlation between plasma free--salicylate and salicylate obtained in spinal fluid.
(4) Some have speculated that it may be a clever trap because, if the children are liable for capital gains tax and are forced to sell their shares, the only person they can sell to is a lineal descendent of Lang Hancock – that is, Gina Rinehart.
(5) The application of lineal discriminative function ensured 93.1% of the right answers.
(6) The relationship between the volume and pressure in the aorta within the physiological range is a lineal function.
(7) To assess lineality in families of bipolar I probands, the authors used direct interviews of family members to reclassify families initially categorized as unilineal by family history.
(8) The lineal sizes of the head exceed those determined by electron microscope approximately by 25%.
(9) The lineal regression model relating mortality and burial data was deaths = 15.94 + 0.80 burials.
(10) These findings highlight the need to systematically assess lineality in all families considered for bipolar I linkage studies and support the preferential inclusion of unilineal families in linkage studies.
(11) Laventiana is also more primitive than Saimiri (= Neosaimiri) fieldsi from the same fauna, further increasing the likelihood that the latter is a lineal ancestor of modern squirrel monkeys.
(12) Second, the mean lineal intercept and tangent diameter varied from 0.048 to 0.058 cm and 0.034 to 0.040 cm, respectively, and did not provide a good concept of the minimum pore size neck dimensions for the specimen.
(13) Twenty measurements were made in fourteen subjects; for CO a good lineal correlation was found (r = 0.81).
(14) They were based on the field magnetic effect and with good lineality.
(15) These responses are consistent with microdosimetric predictions in that recoil protons from neutron interaction are shifted to lower lineal energies as neutron energies increase.
(16) This result demonstrates that in the 6-cell embryo the pair of anterior (AB) blastomeres on the right is equivalent to the pair on the left, and that the extensive differences in fates between lineally homologous derivatives of these cells on the two sides of the animal must be dictated by cell interactions, most of which are likely to occur early in embryogenesis.
(17) In addition, the individuals comprising Semai fission groups are kinsmen which implies that the number of independent genomes represented is markedly less than the number of individual migrants (the lineal effect).
(18) Intrahepatic pO2 rapidly fell to zero and pCO2 increased in a lineal fashion when the total hepatic circulation was interrupted.
(19) Lineal regression analysis shows a correlation coefficient of 0.809 between 7 days and 14 days colonies.
(20) TE manifested its maximum effect in suppressing cancer in mice during the 20th generation of a lineal descent following the injection of the original liver extract into a mother of the cancer proband.