Life Line

  

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Life Line

Definition: Life Line

Life Line

Noun

1. A crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Life Line

Synonyms: lifeline (n), line of life (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Life Line

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Life Line is one of Heinlein's earliest science fiction stories, about a man who builds a machine that will predict how long a person will live. Professor Pinero's invention has a powerful impact on the life insurance industry, as well as on his own life.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Life Line."

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Crosswords: Life Line

English words defined with "life line": businessjobline, line of life, line of workoccupationRidgerope. (references)
Specialty definitions using "life line": DiaryFigsisophane, isopheneReal Programmers Don't Use Pascalsubmarine worker. (references)

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Modern Usage: Life Line

DomainUsage

Lyrics

I don't need another life line (Drowning; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

Don't cut my life line (What Would You Say; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Movie/TV Titles

Life Line (1967)

The Life Line (1919)

Shooting the Life Line (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Life Line

DomainTitle

Books

  • Life Line Series: Canyon Rescue, a Police Dog Named Nosey, Hi-Jack, Flying Hospital, Fire in Great Falls Forest (reference)

  • Throw Out the Life Line Lay Out the Corse: Poems 1965-1985 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Life Line

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  life line

78

  horizontal life line

3

  life line screening

34

  life line food

3

  life line palm reading

10

  life line shakespeare time william

3

  palmistry life line

8

  adult adult afrodisiac afrodisiac androsterone androsterone androsterone androsterone androsterone aphrodisiac aphrodisiac appeal approaching approaching attract attract attract attract attract attract attractant attractant attraction behavior better chemical cologne cologne cologne concentrate concentrate confidence dating dating enlargement faramoan faramone feramone feremoan feremone ferimoan feromone get girl guy human human increased information jelq laid life line love love love love love

2

  america company insurance life line old

7

  50 cent life line

2

  life line phone service

5

  hitlers life line time

2

  life line shakespeare time

5

  50 cent life line lyrics

2

  life line palm

5

  ins life line old

2

  life line lyrics night starting

4

  hand life line

2

  earth life line time

4

  gandhis life line time

2

  ambulance life line

4

  life line pet

2

  life line pharmacy

3

  life line night starting

2

  air life line

3

  life line phone

2

  life line montessori time

3

  care home life line

2

  life line puppy

3

  command half life line

2

  digital life line

3

  half life line time

2
  

life line lyrics

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Life Line

Language Translations for "life line"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

ţin-te bine (pull up your socks). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Life Line

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lifeline.

Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-i-l-l-n"

-2 letters: feline, nellie, nielli.

-3 letters: elfin, fille.

-4 letters: feel, fell, file, fill, fine, flee, lief, lien, life, line, neif, nill.

-5 letters: eel, elf, ell, fee, fen, fie, fil, fin, ill, lee, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-i-l-l-n"
 

+1 letter: lifelines.

 

+2 letters: inflexible.

 

+4 letters: beneficially, lifelikeness.

 

+5 letters: feuilletonism, feuilletonist, inferentially.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Life Line


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 66 65      4C 69 6E 65

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

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01100110 01100101 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#102 &#101 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0066 0065      004C 0069 006E 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46757271246758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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