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Definitions: In Line |
In LineAdjective1. Being next in a line of succession; "he was in line for the presidency". 2. Awaiting something; especially something due; "people were in line at the checkout counter"; "she was in line for promotion". Adverb1. One behind another in a line or queue; "they waited in line for the tickets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | Eat my buddy Pumbaa here because he is a treat! Come on down and dine, on this tasty swine, all you have to do is get in line! Are you aching? (The Lion King; writing credit: Irene Mecchi; Jonathan Roberts) I see by your hasty retreat that you're still twentieth in line. (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar) Heh-heh-heh, I did it! Second in line, and all I had to do was miss eight days of work. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) They're going to have to wait in line. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) Well, grandma's gonna have to get in line. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Fall in line just watching all their feet ("We Got the Beat"; performing artist: The Go-Go's) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In Line of Duty (1931) | |
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 | Children in line to be vaccinated at the Well-Baby Clinic in Dekalb County, Georgia.Credit: CDC. |  | Plane table setup in shoal water - legs driven about 6" into sand Note rodman slogging ashore in line with alidade Combined operations party of H. A. Paton.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | [Albert Schweitzer] : [Hospital residents in line for food].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Steaming in line abreast with two other ships of Battleship Division FIVE, Atlantic Fleet, during an exercise in about 1921. The other ships are USS Delaware (BB-28) and USS North Dakota (BB-29). Photographed by A.E. Wells.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Firing her 14"/45 main battery guns during exercises in the early 1920s. USS Nevada (BB-36) is the next battleship in line.Credit: NAVY. |  | Men and women with luggage waiting in line.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Children in line for breakfast at American Methodist Mission, Klarysew, Poland.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aliens standing in line during transfer from Fort McPherson to Fort Oglethorpe.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmer waiting in line for load of liquid feed, Owensboro, Kentucky.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Men waiting in line for relief commodities, San Antonio, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We were drawn up in line on three sides, with cannons and matches lighted before us. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The pickers clustered disconsolately back to the barnyard and stood in line to be paid off. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Cars should be competitively priced and in line with what is offered to Israeli car importers. (references) | |
Individual contracts are then to be drawn up in line with the terms of the collective contract. (references) | ||
The tariff levels are gradually being brought in line with the average international levels in a phased manner. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | Television stations censor programming in line with government guidelines. (references) |
Rwanda | Radio Rwanda denounced "illegal" meetings, press conferences, and "other activity not in line with the law" during the year. (references) | |
Romania | This commission is entitled to decide on the "opportuneness" of building the place of worship, and to judge whether the construction is in line with the specific dogma of the religion in question. (references) | |
Economic History | Bolivia | Bolivian accounting principles are not in line with world standards. (references) |
Cyprus | The new operational set-up of monetary policy is fully in line with EU practices. (references) | |
Norway | National treatment should be granted in line with Norway's obligations under the EEA accord. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ukraine | However, in July the Government adopted a series of laws designed to bring existing legislation regulating the court system and the administration of justice more in line with constitutional requirements for an independent judiciary. (references) |
Kazakhstan | While international human rights organizations and local monitors were not in a position to determine the veracity of charges against the former prime minister, they stated that the procedures followed in the case were not in line with international commitments. (references) | |
South Africa | No additional C-MAX prisons were opened by year's end, but a new prison based on the C-MAX model was under construction and scheduled to begin operations in January 2002. Parliament passed legislation in 1998 to restructure the prison service and bring prison law in line with the Constitution. (references) | |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | Czech tax codes are generally in line with European Union tax policies. (references) |
GREECE | Greece's foreign exchange market is in line with EU rules on free movement of capital. (references) | |
THAILAND | However, the government continues to ease other import duties in line with WTO and AFTA commitments. (references) | |
Trade | Jamaica | The amendment will bring the country in line with the customs valuation regime of the WTO. (references) |
Turkey | Turkey is a member of GATT/WTO and regulates its customs practices in line with GATT requirements. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | While Kazakhstan has sought to bring standards in line with WTO regulations, these reforms are uneven. (references) | |
Women | Mozambique | When a husband dies, his widow is only fourth in line (after sons, fathers, and brothers) to inherit the household goods. (references) |
Ethiopia | Rape sentences have increased incrementally from 10 to 13 years, in line with the 10 to 15 years prescribed by law; however, rapists generally remain in prison for a period of between 7 and 10 years. (references) | |
Switzerland | The Council of States--the upper house of Parliament--followed the lead of the Federal Council in December 2000 and required the Federal Government to develop a new maternity benefits scheme in line with the July 2000 proposal. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Spain | Each year the Government revises its minimum wage for workers over age 18, in line with the consumer price index. (references) |
China | The law also permits workers and employers in all types of enterprises to sign individual contracts, which are to be drawn up in line with the terms of the collective contract. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Wherever purchasing power fails to reach this level we should see that they have some means of getting adequate food at prices in line with their ability to buy. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | The leaders of American business and the leaders of American labor-those who really have power over wages and prices-must act responsibly, and in their Nation's interest by keeping increases in line with productivity. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Sixty thousand of our fellow citizens are waiting in line for justice, and we should act now to end their wait. |
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Expressions using "in line": fall in line ♦ get in line ♦ in line processing ♦ in line with ♦ in line with each other ♦ keep in line ♦ single in line memory modules ♦ stand in line ♦ troops in line. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "in line"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njëshkolonë (in file), në marrëveshje (knowingly), gati (about, all but, almost, at hand, but, in store, much, nearly, picked, practically, prepared, pretty, ready, scarcely, virtual, well nigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 符合美國利益 (in line with American interests), 符合 (in accordance with, in keeping with, manage, to agree with, to be in line with, to correspond with, to handle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asettua riviin (draw up in line, line up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nous sommes convaincus que le rapport du Secrétaire général est conforme au plan établi par l'Ouest pour la Namibie (they are convinced that the report by the Secretary General is in line with the Western Namibia Plan), faire la queue (stand in line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlange stehen (queue, stand in line, to line up, to queue up, to stand in a queue, to stand in line), in der Reihe bleiben (to keep in line). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απευθείασ επεξεργασία (in line processing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egy vonalban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 番 (order of things, turn in line), 割込み (cutting in line, interrupt, interruption, muscling in on, sharing a theater box, wedging oneself in), 割り込み (cutting in line, interrupt, interruption, muscling in on, sharing a theater box, wedging oneself in), 公務疾病 (sickness incurred in line of duty), 公務災害 (accidents in line of duty), 対外"策に沿って (in line with the foreign policy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいがいせいさくにそって (in line with the foreign policy), "うむしっぺい (sickness incurred in line of duty), "うむさいがい (accidents in line of duty), わり"み (cutting in line, interrupt, interruption, muscling in on, sharing a theater box, wedging oneself in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inay inelay módulos de memória de linha única (single in line memory modules), espere na fila (wait in line), alinhar (align, Aline, edging, German, get in line, Italian and Netherlands laws the French and Luxembourg concepts, line, range, range type, to bring into line second paragraph of Article 4 of the Convention of 27.9.1968 merely brings into line with the Belgian). (various references) в соответствии с (according, as consistent with, as per, in accord with, in accordance with, in agreement with, in compliance with, in conformity with, in keeping with, in line with, pursuant to), однорядный (single in line, single-in-line, uniserial), первый кандидат (first in line). (various references) ser elegido en línea (get in line). (various references) ens (even, in line with each other, your). (various references) sıralı (in order, in train, Sequent, serial, serried), sırada, hizada. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Chronicles Chapter 13, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai paretaxato abia ton polemon en dunamei polemistaiV dunamewV tetrakosiaiV ciliasin andrwn dunatwn kai ieroboam paretaxato proV auton polemon en oktakosiaiV ciliasin dunatoi polemistai dunamewV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cumque inisset Abia certamen et haberet bellicosissimos viros et electorum quadringenta milia Hieroboam instruxit e contra aciem octingenta milia virorum qui et ipsi electi erant et ad bella fortissimi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne Abia hadde gon in strijf, and hadde most best fiytynge men, and of chosen foure hundrith thousand, Jeroboam ordeynde ayeinward scheltrun of eiyt hundrith thousand of men, the whiche and thei weren chosen and to batails most stronge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valor. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war. |
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| Language | 2 Chronicles Chapter 13, Verse 3 |
| Bulgarian | И Авия се опълчи за бой с войска от силни войници, на брой четиристотин хиляди отборни мъже; а Еровоам се опълчи за бой против него са осемстотин хиляди отборни мъже, силни и храбри. |
| Cebuano | Ug si Abias nakiggubat uban sa usa ka panon sa sundalo nga mga tawong maisug sa gubat, bisan upat ka gatus ka libo nga mga piniling tawo: ug gipahamutang ni Jeroboam sa paglaray ang gubat batok kaniya uban sa walo ka gatus ka libo sa mga piniling tawo, nga mga gamhanang tawo sa kaisug. |
| Chinese | 有 一 次 亞 " 雅 率 挑 選 的 兵 四 十 萬 " 陣 、 都 是 勇 敢 的 戰 士 ． 耶 羅 波 安 也 挑 選 大 能 的 勇 士 八 十 萬 、 對 亞 " 雅 " 陣 。 |
| Croatian | Abija je izašao u boj s hrabrim ratnicima, sa èetiri stotine tisuæa izabranih junaka; Jeroboam je svrstao u bojni red protiv njega osam stotina tisuæa ljudi, sve biranih junaka. |
| Danish | Abija åbnede Krigen med en krigsdygtig Hær, 400.000 udsøgte Mænd, og Jeroboam mødte ham med 800.000 udsøgte Mænd, dygtige Krigere, |
| Dutch | En Abia bond den strijd aan met een heir van strijdbare helden, vierhonderd duizend uitgelezen mannen; en Jerobeam stelde tegen hem de slagorde, met achthonderd duizend uitgelezen mannen, kloeke helden. |
| Finnish | Abia alotti sodan urhoollisella sotajoukolla, neljälläsadalla tuhannella valiomiehellä, mutta Jerobeam asettui sotarintaan häntä vastaan kahdeksallasadalla tuhannella valiomiehellä, sotaurholla. |
| French | Abija engagea les hostilités avec une armée de vaillants guerriers, quatre cent mille hommes d`élite; et Jéroboam se rangea en bataille contre lui avec huit cent mille hommes d`élite, vaillants guerriers. |
| German | Und Abia rüstete sich zum Streit mit vierhunderttausend junger Mannschaft, starke Leute zum Kriege. Jerobeam aber rüstete sich, mit ihm zu streiten mit achthunderttausend junger Mannschaft, starke Leute. |
| Haitian Creole | Abija leve yon lame katsanmil (400.000) vanyan sòlda ki konn goumen. Jewoboram bò pa l' kanpe pou goumen kont Abija ak witsanmil (800.000) vanyan sòlda ki konn goumen. |
| Hungarian | Azért felkészüle Abija a háborúra négyszázezer válogatott harczosból álló sereggel; és Jeroboám vele szembeszállott nyolczszázezer válogatott harczosból álló sereggel. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Abia mengerahkan 400.000 prajurit, sedangkan Yerobeam mengerahkan 800.000 prajurit. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Abiapun mengikat perang dengan suatu tentara orang perwira perkasa empat ratus ribu orang pilihan; maka Yerobeampun mengikat perang hendak melawan dia dengan delapan ratus ribu orang pilihan, semuanya perwira perkasa. |
| Italian | Abia attaccò battaglia con un esercito di valorosi, quattrocentomila uomini scelti. Geroboamo si schierò in battaglia contro di lui con ottocentomila uomini scelti. |
| Korean | 아 비 야 " 택 한 " 싸 움 에 용 맹 한 군 사 사 십 만 으 로 싸 움 을 예 비 하 였 여 로 보 " 은 택 한 " 큰 용 사 " 십 만 으 로 대 진 한 지 라 |
| Maori | Na ka whakatikaia e Apia nga ngohi o tana ope, he hunga maia mo te whawhai, e wha rau mano, he hunga whiriwhiri. I whakatikaia ano e Ieropoama ana ngohi hei whawhai ki a ia; e waru rau mano ana, he hunga whiriwhiri, he marohirohi, he toa. |
| Modern Greek | Και παρεταχθη ο Αβια εις μαχην με στρατευμα δυνατων πολεμιστων, τετρακοσιων χιλιαδων ανδρων εκλεκτων· και ο Ιεροβοαμ παρεταχθη εις μαχην εναντιον αυτου με οκτακοσιας χιλιαδας ανδρων εκλεκτων, δυνατων εν ισχυι. |
| Norwegian | Abia begynte krigen med en hær av djerve stridsmenn, fire hundre tusen utvalgte menn; men Jeroboam stilte sig i fylking mot ham med åtte hundre tusen utvalgte menn, også djerve stridsmenn. |
| Portuguese | Abias dispôs-se para a peleja com um exército de varões valentes, quatrocentos mil homens escolhidos; e Jeroboão dispôs contra ele a batalha com oitocentos mil homens escolhidos, todos homens valentes. |
| Rumanian | Abia a knceput lupta cu o oaste de rqzboinici viteji, patrusute de mii de oameni alewi; wi Ieroboam s`a knwiruit de bqtaie kmpotriva lui cu opt sute de mii de oameni alewi, rqzboinici viteji. |
| Spanish | Abías dispuso la batalla con un ejército de 400.000 hombres de guerra escogidos. Jeroboam preparó la batalla contra él con 800.000 hombres escogidos y valientes. |
| Swedish | Och Abia begynte kriget med en här av tappra krigsmän, fyra hundra tusen utvalda män; men Jerobeam ställde upp sig till strid mot honom med åtta hundra tusen utvalda tappra stridsmän. |
| Thai | อาบียาห์เส"็จออกทำสงคราม มีกองทัพทหารชำนาญศึกเป็นคนคั"เลือกแล้วสี่แสนคน และเยโรโบอัมไ"้ตั้งแนวรบสู้กับพระองค์"้วยคนคั"เลือกแล้วเป็นทแกล้วทหารแป"แสนคน |
| Ukrainian | І зачав Авійя війну з військом хоробрих вояків, чотири сотні тисяч вибраних мужів, а Єровоам приготовився до війни з ним з вісьмома сотнями тисяч вибраних мужів, хоробрих вояків. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-n-n" | |
-1 letter: linen, linin. | |
-2 letters: lien, line, linn, nine. | |
-3 letters: inn, lei, lie, lin, nil. | |
-4 letters: el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-n-n" | |
+1 letter: aniline, incline. | |
+2 letters: aliening, anilines, biennial, eloining, enisling, ensiling, inclined, incliner, inclines, induline, lenition, lichenin, likening, linguine, liniment, livening, mainline, relining. | |
+3 letters: antialien, anticline, asininely, beelining, biennials, clonidine, crinoline, declining, eloigning, engilding, enlisting, entailing, entitling, entoiling, incliners, indulines, infantile, inflexion, inletting, inquiline, interline, interlink, lenitions, licencing, licensing, lichening, lichenins, lilangeni, lineation, lingering, linguines, liniments, lippening, listening, mainlined, mainlines, mildening, millennia, nickeling, nielloing, penciling, quinoline, reclining, redlining, relinking, renailing, silencing, sniveling, tinseling, triennial, unilineal, unilinear, unveiling, vicennial. | |
+4 letters: alienating, alienation, alimenting, annihilate, anticlines, bemingling, biennially, blinkering, centillion, clinkering, clonidines, crinolined, crinolines, datelining, disincline, encircling, enfilading, engirdling, englishing, engrailing, enkindling, enlivening, ensilaging, enticingly, epilimnion, explaining, femininely, fingerling, fingernail, flintiness, glistening, headlining, imminently, impaneling, incidental, inclinable, indwelling, infinitely, inflecting, inflection, inflexions, inquilines, insensible, insensibly, intangible, interlined, interliner, interlines, interlinks, intestinal, inveigling, invincible, javelining, julienning, kindliness, kingliness, leniencies, lentigines, lightening, lineations, livingness, melanizing, millennial, millennium, nebulising, nebulizing, nephelinic, nickelling, novelising, novelizing, penalising, penalizing, pencilings, pencilling, penicillin, pipelining, plenishing, princeling, quinolines, realigning, rekindling, relumining, sidelining, slinkiness, snivelling, stenciling, tinselling, toenailing, triennials, ungainlier, unkindlier, unveilings, unyielding, vinylidene. | |
+5 letters: alienations, anilinguses, annihilated, annihilates, antiwrinkle, bipinnately, bulletining, cannibalise, cannibalize, centillions, cylindering, declination, delineating, delineation, dimensional, disinclined, disinclines, eliminating, elimination, epilimnions, fingerlings, fingernails, finicalness, franklinite, geanticline, gillnetting, hellenizing, illuminance, imboldening, impanelling, inalienable, inalienably, inanimately, incidentals, incipiently, indefinable, indefinably, inessential, infantilize, inferential, inflections, influencing, influential, infrangible, ingeniously, ingrainedly, initialness, insertional, insincerely, insistently, instillment, intangibles, intelligent, intensional, intensively, intentional, interfiling, interisland, interlacing, interlaying, interleukin, interlinear, interliners, interlining, interlinked, interloping, intermingle, internalise, internality, internalize, inventively, inventorial, itinerantly, langbeinite, legionnaire, lightninged, liltingness, linearising, linearizing, linebacking, linecasting, lingeringly, luminescing, luteinizing, malingering, millenarian, millenniums, mislearning, multiengine, nationalise, nationalize, nephelinite, nightingale, nonfamilies, pencillings, penicillins, penitential, pinwheeling, princelings, reconciling, reenlisting, reinflating, reinflation, relicensing, replevining, reshingling, saintliness, sentineling, sickeningly, solemnizing, splintering, stencilling, triennially, unbelieving, undecillion, underlining, ungainliest, unkindliest, unlimbering, unnilhexium, ventilating, ventilation, vernalizing, vilipending, vinblastine, vinylidenes, willingness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 4C 69 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n   L i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 004C 0069 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380246758071 |
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