Lineal

Definitions: Lineal

Lineal

Adjective

1. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity".

2. Arranged in a line.

Date "lineal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
lifi	English	Lineal foot	Industry, Meteorology & Standards
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Lineal

Synonym: direct (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: collateral (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Length	Linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Lineal

English words defined with "lineal": Lineal measure, Lineality ♦ permutation. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lineal": circulation velocity, collateral relative ♦ entailed estate, entailing of real estate ♦ hoisting power ♦ Lineal descendant, lineal foot ♦ Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary ♦ Prester John. (references)

Etymologies containing "lineal": Multilineal. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lineal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (ruler, straightedge), German (ruler), Manx (line), Portuguese (lineal), Spanish (lineal, linear).

Domain	Title
Books	Algebra Lineal (reference) Algebra Lineal y Aplicaciones (reference) Algebra Lineal y Teoria de Matrices (reference) Americans of Royal Descent : Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families (reference) God and Circumstances: A Lineal Study of Intent in Edgar Allan Poe's the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and Mark Twain's the Great Dark ( American U) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Super Aral Lineal (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Women	Pakistan	However, Qisas and Diyat cannot be invoked where the victim is a direct lineal descendant of the perpetrator. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Lineal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lineal" is used about 19 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	19	80,337

Expressions using "lineal": lineal amplification ♦ lineal consanguinity ♦ lineal foot ♦ Lineal measure. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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.

Language		Translations for "lineal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		linear (linear), trashëgimor (ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial), në vijë të drejtë (as the crow flies, straightaway). (various references)

Arabic		‏متحدر من سلالة واحدة, ‏مؤلف من خطوط (linear), ‏مباشر (collateral, conducting, direct, downright, eve, first hand, forthright, frontal, fulfilling, immediate, non-stop, plump, point blank, proximate, satisfying, through). (various references)

Bulgarian		родов (ancestral, generic, septal, tribal), фамилен (ancestral, family, hereditary), линеен (linear, marching, running), пряк (direct, forthright, immediate, near, straight), по пряка наследствена линия. (various references)

Chinese		线形 (lineally). (various references)

Czech		v přímé linii. (various references)

Danish		løbende fod (foot run, lifi, lineal foot, linear foot, linift., running foot), vægt per løbende meter (weight per lineal metre), tunica fibrosa lienis (lineal albuginea), tunica alguginea lienis (lineal albuginea), miltkapsel (lineal albuginea). (various references)

Dutch		tunica albuginea corporis lienis (lineal albuginea), miltkapsel (lineal albuginea), gewicht per strekkende meter (weight per lineal metre), capsula lienis (lineal albuginea), albuginea lienis (lineal albuginea). (various references)

Farsi		مربوطبه خط, عمودی (Erect, Perpendicular, Right, Straight, Upright, Vertical), خطی (Linear), اجدادی (Ancestral). (various references)

Finnish		metripaino (weight per lineal metre), juoksujalka (running race). (various references)

French		en ligne direct, direct. (various references)

German		in gerader linie, direkt (blunt, bluntly, clear, direct, directly, due, forthright, immediate, immediately, immediatly, live, one-level, outspoken, outspokenly, perfect, plain, plainly, plump, randomly, really, right, sheer, slap, squarely, straigh ahead, straight, straightly, unbroken, undeviating). (various references)

Greek		κατ' ευθείαν γραμμήν. (various references)

Hebrew		מקווקו (linear). (various references)

Hungarian		vonalas (banded, linear, liny, ruled). (various references)

Indonesian		langsung (direct, straightway). (various references)

Italian		diretto (addressed, bound, cross, direct, directly, going, immediate, outright, plump, point blank, through, through train). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		直系血族 (a lineal relation), 直系尊属 (lineal ascendant), 直系卑属 (lineal descendant), 卑属 (lineal descendants), 卑屬 (lineal descendants). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひぞく (bandit, coarse, lineal descendants, rebel, vulgar, vulgarism, vulgarity), ちょっけいそんぞく (lineal ascendant), ちょっけいひぞく (lineal descendant), ちょっけいけつぞく (a lineal relation). (various references)

Korean		직계. (various references)

Manx		sluightoil (fruitful, prolific). (various references)

Pig Latin		ineallay

Portuguese		linear (linear, lineate), lineal, genealogia (general, pedigreed, provenance). (various references)

Romanian		liniar (linear, straight), ereditar (hereditary, inborn, inheritable, innate, patrimonial), descinzând direct. (various references)

Russian		линейный (line, linear, single-line). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prav (right, straight), koji pripada direktnoj lozi, dužni (lengthwise). (various references)

Spanish		lineal (linear). (various references)

Swedish		direkt (direct, directly, first hand, flat, full, immediate, immediately, live, on-line, outright, slap, Square, straight, straight away, through). (various references)

Thai		เป็นเส้นตรง (linear). (various references)

Turkish		doğrudan doğruya (direct, directly, fair, immediately, point blank, right, straight), çizgisel (linear). (various references)

Ukranian		спадковий (ancestral, hereditary, heritable, inheritable, original), родовий (ancestral, clannish, generic, generical, genitive, patrimonial, race), лінійний (linear). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lineal": linealities, lineality, lineally. (additional references)
	Words ending with "lineal": matrilineal, nonlineal, patrilineal, unilineal. (additional references)
	Words containing "lineal": matrilineally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lineal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ileal, inea, klontal, likeaaa, Limnaea, Linal, lincean, Lindal, linea, linead, Linehall, linel, linelt, Linha, linial, linii, linnal, Linnena, Linval, Linwell, longeval, lunala, lunula, lunulae, Lunule, luteal, Lymnaea, Lynall. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lineal" (pronounced li"nēul)
6	l i" n ē u l	matrilineal, patrilineal.
4	-n ē u l	bicentennial, biennial, centennial, ceremonial, colonial, decennial, intracranial, matrimonial, menial, millennial, perennial, quadrennial, testimonial, triennial.
3	-ē u l	actuarial, adverbial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, alluvial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biaxial, binomial, biomaterial, bronchial, burial, cereal, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, conspiratorial, convivial, curatorial, custodial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, entrepreneurial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, filial, fluvial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, industrial, janitorial, jovial, laryngeal, magisterial, malarial, managerial, marsupial, material, medial, memorial, mercurial, microbial, ministerial, myocardial, nomenclatorial, parochial, pictorial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, professorial, prosecutorial, proverbial, pseudopodial, radial, raptorial, remedial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, terrestrial, territorial, tracheal, trivial, tutorial, venereal, vestigial, vitriol.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lienal.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-n"
	-1 letter: alien, aline, anile, elain, ileal, liane.
	-2 letters: anil, elan, ilea, lain, lane, leal, lean, lien, line, nail, nill.
	-3 letters: ail, ain, ale, all, ane, ani, ell, ill, lea, lei, lie, lin, nae, nil.
	-4 letters: ae, ai, al, an, el, en, in, la, li, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-n"
	+1 letter: ainsell, alienly, gallein, linable, manille, ralline.
	+2 letters: ainsells, alkaline, allanite, alleging, allergin, alliance, alpinely, ancillae, anvilled, balkline, canaille, cliental, fellahin, flatline, galleins, genially, inwalled, labeling, landline, lanoline, libelant, lienable, lineable, lineally, linearly, linkable, manilles, menially, quinella, sensilla, splenial, tenaille, unallied, venially.
	+3 letters: alienable, allanites, allegiant, allergins, allethrin, alliances, allogenic, andouille, angelical, balklines, ballerina, befalling, begalling, canailles, candlelit, cellaring, cleanlier, collegian, collinear, coralline, dalliance, equalling, fellating, fellation, flagellin, flatlined, flatliner, flatlines, galenical, galingale, gallamine, galleting, gallinule, gavelling, geminally, genically, genitally, halocline, installed, installer, labelling, landlines, landsleit, landslide, lanolines, laureling, lemniscal, libelants, libellant, lilangeni, lineality, linoleate, medaillon, medalling, medallion, metalling, millenary, millennia, multilane, nonlineal, panelling, pedalling, pellagrin, plantlike, pollinate, quinellas, ravelling, recalling, refalling, reinstall, reliantly, sailplane, saliently, seminally, sensillae, signalled, signaller, silkaline, snaillike, tailplane, tellurian, tenailles, tillerman, unilineal, unlikable, unlivable, villenage.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 6E 65 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
programacion lineal	100	lineal no regresion simple	6
algebra lineal	58	correlación lineal regresión y	6
lineal no regresion	30	lineal transformacion	6
funcion lineal	24	inversa lineal transformacion	5
foot lineal	19	análisis de lineal regresion regresión	5
dilatacion lineal	18	algebra lineal matriz	5
lineal programación	15	lineal multiple regresion	5
lineal no regresión	12	lineal momentum	5
lineal regresión	12	kuhn lineal no programacion tucker	5
lineal no programacion	12	acelerador lineal	5
de lineal problemas programacion	10	algebra de lineal problemas resueltos	5
lineal no programación	10	ecuacion lineal	4
entera lineal programacion	10	lineal regresion	4
correlacion lineal	9	lineal velocidad	4
lineal	9	grafica lineal	4
lineal multiple	9	dependencia e independencia lineal	4
dibujo lineal	9	lineal pensamiento	4
lineal perspectiva	7	lineal regresión simple	4
correlacion lineal regresion y	7	algebra lineal matrix	4
lineal problemas programacion	6	de ejercicios lineal programacion	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Lineal

Definitions: Lineal

Lineal

Adjective

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Lineal

Synonym: Lineal

Synonyms within Context: Lineal

Length

Crosswords: Lineal

Commercial Usage: Lineal

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lineal

Usage Frequency: Lineal

Expressions: Lineal

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lineal

Modern Translations: Lineal

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lineal

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Lineal"

Anagrams: Lineal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Lineal

4C 69 6E 65 61 6C

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