Lay it on the line

Definition

line 1 / laÇn / n ၁။ [C] (က) မ်ဥ္းေၾကာင္း။ အစင္းအေၾကာင္း။ a straight / wavy / dotted / diagonal line ❍ Don’t park on the double yellow lines (ie those painted at the side of a road). ❍ Draw a line from A to B. (ခ) (မ်က္ႏွာ) အေရးအေၾကာင္း။ a face covered in lines and wrinkles. ၂။ [U] (ပန္းခ်ီ)ေကာက္ေၾကာင္း။ Note the artist’s delicate use of line and texture. ၃။ lines [pl] ပံုသဏၭာန္။ ေကာက္ေၾကာင္း။ the sleek lines of a racing car. ၄။ (က) (usu the line ) [C usu sing ] (ကစားကြင္းရိွ)မ်ဥ္းေၾကာင္း။ be first across the (finishing) line (ie in a race) ❍ If the ball crosses the line it’s out. (ခ) [C] နယ္နိမိတ္မ်ဥ္း။ cross the line (ie border) from Mexico into the USA. See also COASTLINE ၅။ [C] ေရွ႕ဖ်ားတပ္မ်ား တစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ရိွ မ်က္ႏွာစာ။ ေရွ႕တပ္တန္း။ the front line (ie that nearest to the enemy) ေရွ႕တန္း။ ❍ behind enemy lines. ရန္သူ႕ ေနာက္ေက်ာ။ ၆။ [C] (လူ၊ ပစၥည္းစသည္ စီတန္းထားေသာ) အတန္း။ a line of people waiting at the Post Office ❍ stand/wait in line ❍ get into line ❍ long lines of houses. ၇။ [C usu sing ] မ်ဳိး႐ိုး။ အဆက္အႏြယ္။ a line of kings ❍ in the male/female line ❍ She comes from a long line of musicians. ၈။ (က) [C] စာတန္း။ စာေၾကာင္း။ page 5, line 13 ❍ Start each paragraph on a new line. ❍ A sonnet is a poem with 14 lines. (ခ) [C] ( infml ) စာတို။ Write me a line if you’ve time. (ဂ) lines [pl] သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္သူ ေျပာရမည့္စကား။ Have you learnt your lines yet? (ဃ) lines [pl] (in some schools) (ျပစ္ဒဏ္အျဖစ္ ေရးကူးရေသာ) စာေၾကာင္း။ She gave me 50 lines for not doing my homework. ၉။ [C] (က) ႀကိဳး။ ႀကိဳးတန္း။ a fishing-line ❍ Hang the clothes (out) on the line. (ခ) ( esp nautical ) ႀကိဳး။ throw sb a line. ၁၀။ [C] (တယ္လီဖုန္း၊ ဓာတ္မီး) လိုင္း၊ ႀကိဳး။ a bad (eg noisy) line ❍ He was shouting down the line to someone. ❍ I’m sorry, the line is engaged. ❍ Strong winds have blown down many power lines. See also HOT LINE, PARTY LINE, OFF-LINE, ON-LINE ၁၁။ [C] (က) မီးရထားလမ္း။ The train was delayed because of ice on the line. (ခ) မီးရထားလမ္း။ a branch line ❍ the main line ❍ a busy commuter line. ၁၂။ [sing] လမ္းစဥ္။ သေဘာထား။ ရပ္တည္ခ်က္။ the official line ❍ a line of argument ❍ Don’t take that line with me. ❍ The police are taking a firm/hard line on drug pushers. ၁၃။ [sing] ~ ( of sth ) လမ္း။ လမ္းေၾကာင္း။ be in the line of fire (ie the direction in which guns, etc are fired) ❍ the line of attack. See also FIRING-LINE ၁၄။ [C] (သယ္ယူပို႔ေဆာင္ေရး) ကုမၸဏီ။ a shipping line. ၁၅။ the line [sing] (က) ( Brit ) ေျခလ်င္(တပ္)။ a line regiment. (ခ) ( US ) တိုက္ခိုက္ေရး(တပ္)။ ၁၆။ [sing] (က) စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္း(သို႔) ထုတ္လုပ္မႈလုပ္ငန္း (သို႔) ကြၽမ္းက်င္မႈ နယ္ပယ္။ He’s something in the banking line. ❍ Her line is more selling than production. ❍ That’s not (much in) my line (ie not one of my skills or interests). (ခ) ထုတ္ကုန္အမ်ဳိးအစား။ stock a new line (ie range of products) ❍ This shop has a nice line in winter coats. See also ASSEMBLY LINE, PRODUCTION LINE v ၁။ (esp passive) မ်ဥ္းသားထားသည္။ အေရးအေၾကာင္း ထင္သည္။ lined paper (ie with lines printed on it) ❍ a face lined with age and worry. ၂။ စီတန္းလ်က္ရိွသည္။ a road lined with trees ❍ Crowds of people lined the route of the procession. ❏ along the line [ IDM ] ( infml ) လုပ္ရင္းကိုင္ရင္း။ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္လံုး။ We obviously went wrong somewhere along the line. ❍ He’s created problems all (ie at every stage) along the line. ❏ along/on the same, etc lines [ IDM ] အလားတူ။ အတိုင္း။ produce another programme on the same lines ❍ The novel develops along traditional lines. ❏ bring sth, come, fall, get, move, etc into line (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] လိုက္နာသည္။ He’ll have to fall into line with the others. ❏ get, have, etc one’s lines crossed [ IDM ] ( infml ) နားၾကားလြဲသည္။ တလြဲသေဘာေပါက္သည္။ ❏ give sb/get/have a line on sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) သတင္း ေပးသည္ (သို႔) တစ္စံုတစ္ရာသိထားသည္။ ❏ hold the line [ IDM ] (တယ္လီဖုန္း)ကိုင္ထားပါ။ Hold the line while I see if she’s here. ❏ in (a) line (with sth) [ IDM ] တစ္ေျဖာင့္တည္း။ မ်ဥ္း တစ္ေျပးတည္း။ Place your right toe in line with your left heel. ❏ in line for sth [ IDM ] လ်ာထားခံရေသာ။ ရမည့္ အလားအလာရိွေသာ။ She’s in line for promotion. ❏ in the line of duty [ IDM ] တာဝန္အရ။ ❏ in line with sth [ IDM ] တစ္ေျပးညီ။ သေဘာခ်င္း ထပ္တူ။ It’s in line with government policy. ❏ lay it on the line [ IDM ] ( infml ) ရွင္းရွင္း၊ ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း၊ တည့္တည့္ေျပာသည္။ Let me lay it on the line — I think you’re cheating. ❏ line-drawing n ေကာက္ေၾကာင္းပံု။ ❏ (choose, follow, take, etc) the line of least resistance [ IDM ] အလြယ္လိုက္သည္။ ❏ line printer n ( computing ) စာတစ္ေၾကာင္းခ်င္း ႐ိုက္ သည့္ ပံုႏိွပ္စက္။ ❏ line up (for sth) [ PHRV ] ( esp US ) တန္းစီသည္။ ❏ line (sb) up [ PHRV ] တန္းစီသည္။ line up the suspects / get the suspects to line up. ❏ line sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (အလုပ္)တန္းစီေနသည္။ စီစဥ္သည္။ I’ve got a lot lined up (ie I’m very busy) this week. ❍ He’s lined up a live band for the party. ❏ line-up n ၁။ လူတန္း။ a line-up of men in an identification parade. ၂။ (ကြင္းဆင္းယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ရန္၊ ျပသရန္ လ်ာထားေသာ) အစီအစဥ္။ Jones will be missing from the team line-up. ❍ A horror movie completes this evening’s TV line-up. ❏ (put sth) on the line [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိုးရိမ္ရသည္။ If this goes wrong your job’s on the line. ❏ out of line (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ ကြၽံထြက္ေနသည္။ One of the soldiers is out of line. ၂။ ကြဲျပားသည္။ out of line with current thinking ❍ Our prices are out of line with those of our competitors. line 2 / laÇn / v ~ sth (with sth ) (esp passive) (လိုင္နင္)ခံသည္။ (အနား)ကြပ္သည္။ တန္းစီထားသည္။ an overcoat lined with silk ❍ fur-lined gloves ❍ ( fig ) The walls of the room were lined with books. ❏ line one’s (own)/sb’s pocket(s) [ IDM ] လာဘ္စား သည္ (သို႔) လာဘ္ထိုးသည္။ -line / -laÇn / comb form (forming compound ns ) တယ္လီဖုန္း လိုင္း။ helpline ❍ Childline ❍ Aidsline.

Examples

1. Draw a straight line.
2. Each horizontal line on the graph represents fifteen minutes.
3. It was hard to tell whether the ball had crossed the line.
4. The starting line
5. His only previous conviction is for parking on a double yellow line.
6. There were small lines at the corners of her mouth and around her eyes.
7. The line between Northern Ireland and the Republic
8. The country is still divided along ethnic lines.
9. [line between] : The programme blurs the line between news and entertainment.
10. [a line] : There is a fine line between resolving the crisis peacefully and giving in to terrorism.
11. My daughter now wants her own phone line in her bedroom.
12. It’s a very bad line – put the phone down and I’ll call you back.
13. The advice line is open from 6pm to 10pm on weekdays.
14. A chat line
15. The London to Brighton line
16. There are plans to reopen the railway line.
17. Train services have been cancelled due to repair work on the line.
18. [line of thought] : He impatiently dismissed this line of thought.
19. [line of argument] : You also need to develop a persuasive line of argument.
20. [line of enquiry] : What are the main lines of enquiry you intend to pursue?
21. [take a line] : Environmental groups took a very tough line with the industry.
22. [line on] : Forsyth appears to have hardened his line on Europe.
23. A line of text
24. He forgot his lines.
25. Don’t give me that old line.
26. A line of police stood outside the post office as employees were evacuated.
27. On the far bank were thick reeds and a line of palm trees.
28. [in a line] : She told the children to walk in a line and not push.
29. The plane was brought down behind enemy lines.
30. [stand in line] : We stood in line for about an hour to get the tickets.
31. We want to open up lines of communication and provide more information.
32. The organization’s problems were caused by a lack of clear reporting lines.
33. The shipping line is losing money
34. and the government wants to sell it.
35. The company is broadening its product lines to attract more buyers.
36. A new line of perfume
37. A washing line
38. Heavy snow brought down power lines.
39. He was so drunk he couldn’t walk in a straight line.
40. Deep snow is blocking the mountain roads that serve as supply lines for the rebels.
41. [line of fire] : Though there is fighting nearby
42. the camp is not in the line of fire.
43. [line of vision] : I was standing right in his line of vision.
44. Buyers are attracted by the sleek lines of the car.
45. A bass line
46. This is just the latest in a long line of such scandals.
47. Mr Nelson comes from a long line of carpenters.
48. [line of business/work] : What line of business are you in exactly?
49. [in someone’s line] : Light novels are more in my line.
50. A line of cocaine