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Definition: Ligne |
LigneNoun1. A linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ligne" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Crosswords: Ligne |
| Specialty definitions using "ligne": back-up line of credit, base of a geometrical figure ♦ Decorphone charge ♦ Jean des Vignes ♦ planned sales. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ligne" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (be similar, resemble), French (design, figure, hand, line, styling), Norwegian (be similar, resemble). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Ligne de sceaux (1973) Au bout de la ligne (1969) La Ligne de démarcation (1966) L' Abonné de la ligne U (1964) La Ligne de mire (1960) | |
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| "Ligne" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Ligne" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
jeux en ligne | 255 | bourse en ligne | 19 |
ligne roset | 169 | dictionnaire en francais ligne | 18 |
dictionnaire en ligne | 85 | voyance en ligne | 18 |
achat en ligne | 52 | en jouets ligne | 17 |
en ligne traduction | 47 | ligne | 17 |
en jeu ligne | 40 | jouer en ligne | 16 |
en ligne vente | 35 | en ligne placement | 16 |
assurance en ligne | 34 | en librairie ligne | 16 |
anti en ligne virus | 32 | compte consultation de en ligne | 15 |
traducteur en ligne | 28 | en jouet ligne | 15 |
boutique en ligne | 27 | sex shop en ligne | 15 |
dictionnaire en français ligne | 24 | courtier en ligne | 15 |
banque en ligne | 23 | en formation ligne | 15 |
casino en ligne | 23 | ligne roset usa.com | 15 |
en gratuit jeux ligne | 22 | achat cave en ligne vins | 15 |
en ligne réservation voyage | 20 | en ligne virements | 14 |
ligne rosset | 20 | musique en ligne | 14 |
credit en ligne | 19 | en gratuits jeux ligne | 14 |
la ligne verte | 19 | en ligne radio | 14 |
compte en ligne | 19 | achats en ligne | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ligne": ligneous. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ligne": aligned, aligner, aligners, maligned, maligner, maligners, misaligned, nonaligned, realigned, unaligned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ingle. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: gien, glen, lien, line, ling. | |
-2 letters: eng, gel, gen, gie, gin, leg, lei, lie, lin, nil. | |
-3 letters: el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: dingle, eloign, engild, genial, gentil, ingles, jingle, leggin, legion, linage, linger, mingle, niggle, single, tingle. | |
+2 letters: aligned, aligner, aneling, angelic, anglice, atingle, belling, belting, belying, blueing, ceiling, celling, cleping, clewing, clinged, clinger, clueing, cringle, dealing, deleing, delving, dingles, dueling, eanling, elating, eliding, eloigns, eloping, eluding, eluting, engilds, english, engrail, erlking, exiling, feeling, felling, felting, finagle, fleeing, flexing, fleying, flinger, fueling, galenic, gallein, gelatin, gelding, gelling, geminal, genital, gentile, gillnet, gingeli, gingely, glenoid, gleying, glinted, glisten, glueing, glycine, gremlin, guyline, healing, heeling, heiling, helling, helming, helping, helving, ignoble, indulge, jelling, jingled, jingler, jingles, keeling, kegling, kelping, kinglet, leading, leafing, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, leching, leering, legging, leggins, legions, legumin, lemming, lending, lensing, lentigo, letting, levying, lighten, lignite, linages, lineage, lingers, lingier, lingoes, linguae, linkage, longies, lugeing, melding, melling, melting, mewling, mingled, mingler, mingles, nargile, neglige, niggled, niggler, niggles, pealing, peeling, pelting, realign, reeling, reginal, relying, ringlet, sealing, seeling, selfing, selling, shingle, singled, singles, singlet, slewing, slinger, sniggle, swingle, telling, tingled, tingler, tingles, unagile, vealing, veiling, welding, welling, welting, winglet, yealing, yelling, yelping. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 67 6E 65 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. --. -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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