Line vs. Sentence — What's the Difference?

(Mathematics) A geometric object with neither width nor depth, typically straight and extending indefinitely.

A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.

A thin continuous mark, as that made by a pen, pencil, or brush applied to a surface.

The penalty imposed by a law court or other authority upon someone found guilty of a crime or other offense.

A similar mark cut or scratched into a surface.

(Archaic) A maxim.

A crease in the skin, especially on the face; a wrinkle.

(Obsolete) An opinion, especially one given formally after deliberation.

A real or imaginary mark positioned in relation to fixed points of reference.

To impose a sentence on (a criminal defendant found guilty, for example).

A degree or circle of longitude or latitude drawn on a map or globe.

(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

The equator. Used with the.

The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

A border or boundary

A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

A demarcation

(obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

A contour or an outline

(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.

A mark used to define a shape or represent a contour.

(logic) A formula with no free variables.

Any of the marks that make up the formal design of a picture.

(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

A cable, rope, string, cord, or wire.

(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.

(Nautical) A rope used aboard a ship.

(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.

A fishing line.

A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

A clothesline.

To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.

A cord or tape used, as by builders or surveyors, for measuring, leveling, or straightening.

To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.

A pipe or system of pipes for conveying a fluid

(obsolete) To utter sententiously.

An electric-power transmission cable.

Sense; meaning; significance.

A wire or system of wires connecting telephone or telegraph systems.

An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

An open or functioning telephone connection

A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

A passenger or cargo system of public or private transportation, as by ship, aircraft, or bus, usually over a definite route.

In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

A company owning or managing such a system.

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

A railway track or system of tracks.

A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

A particular section of a railway network

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

A course of progress or movement; a route

To decree or announce as a sentence.

A general method, manner, or course of procedure

To utter sententiously.

A manner or course of procedure determined by a specified factor

A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language;

An official or prescribed policy

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;

Often lines A general concept or model

The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;

The condition of being in proper or aligned position

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;

A condition of agreement or correspondence

One's trade, occupation, or field of interest

Range of competence

Merchandise or services of a similar or related nature

A group of persons or things arranged in a row or series

Ancestry or lineage.

A series of persons, especially from one family, who succeed each other

A strain, as of livestock or plants, developed and maintained by selective breeding.

A sequence of related things that leads to a certain ending

An ordered system of operations that allows a sequential manufacture or assembly of goods at all or various stages of production.

The personnel of an organization or a business who actually make a product or perform a service.

A horizontal row of printed or written words or symbols.

One of the horizontal scans forming a television image.

A brief letter; a note

A unit of verse ending in a visual or typographic break and generally characterized by its length and meter

A unit of uninterrupted text spoken by an actor

(Informal) Glib or insincere talk, usually intended to deceive or impress

A marriage certificate.

A usually specified number of lines of prose or verse to be written out by a pupil as punishment.

(Games) A horizontal demarcation on a scorecard in bridge dividing the honor score from the trick score.

A source of information.

The information itself

(Music) One of the five parallel marks constituting a staff.

A sustained melodic or harmonic part in a piece

A formation in which elements, such as troops, tanks, or ships, are arranged abreast of one another.

The battle area closest to the enemy; the front.

The combat troops or warships at the front, arrayed for defense or offense.

The regular forces of an army or a navy, in contrast to staff and support personnel.

The class of officers in direct command of warships or of army combat units.

A bulwark or trench.

An extended system of such fortifications or defenses

A foul line.

A real or imaginary mark demarcating a specified section of a playing area or field.

A real or imaginary mark or point at which a race begins or ends.

The center and two wings making up a hockey team's offensive unit.

(Football) A line of scrimmage.

(Football) The linemen considered as a group.

(Informal) The odds a bookmaker gives, especially for sports events.

The proportion of an insurance risk assumed by a particular underwriter or company.

(Slang) An amount of powdered cocaine arranged in a thin, long strip for snorting.

To mark, incise, or cover with a line or lines.

To represent with lines.

To place in a series or row.

To form a bordering line along

(Baseball) To hit (a ball) sharply so that it flies low and fast.

To hit a line drive

To fit a covering to the inside surface of

To cover the inner surface of

To fill plentifully, as with money or food.

A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.

(geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.

A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.

(graph theory) An edge of a graph.

(geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.

The equator.

(music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

(cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).

(soccer) The goal line.

(motoring) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.

A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.

A hose or pipe, of any size.

Direction, path.

The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.

A clothesline.

A letter, a written form of communication.

A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.

(military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.

The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.

A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.

(obsolete) A measuring line or cord.

That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.

A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.

; feature; figure (of one's body).

A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.

Ellipsis of line of battle

(military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.

(music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.

A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.

A small amount of text. Specifically:

A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.

A verse (in poetry).

A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.

A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.

Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.

The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.

(slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)

A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.

(stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.

Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:

(historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.

One twelfth of an inch.

One sixteenth of an inch.

One fortieth of an inch.

(advertising) agate line

(historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.

The batter's box.

(fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.

(engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).

A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.

(obsolete) instruction; doctrine.

(genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.

(perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.

(ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.

(Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.

A vascular catheter.

(South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).

(obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.

(transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.

(transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.

(transitive) To form a line along.

(transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.

(railroading) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.

To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.

(transitive) To read or repeat line by line.

To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.

(transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.

(transitive) To measure.

(transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.

To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.

(transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

To copulate with, to impregnate.

Flax; linen.

The longer and finer fiber of flax.

A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.

A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.

The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.

Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.

A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.

A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.

A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.

Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.

That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.

The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.

A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.

Lineament; feature; figure.

A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.

A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.

A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.

A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.

A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.

A measuring line or cord.

That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.

The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.

Instruction; doctrine.

The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.

A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; - opposed to column.

A trench or rampart.

Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.

One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

A number of shares taken by a jobber.

A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.

The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.

The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.

A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.

To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.

To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.

To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.

To impregnate; - applied to brute animals.

To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.

To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.

To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.

To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

A formation of people or things one beside another;

A mark that is long relative to its width;

A formation of people or things one behind another;

A length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point

Text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen;

A single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum

A fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops);

The methodical process of logical reasoning;

A conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

A connected series of events or actions or developments;

A spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent

A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;

A pipe used to transport liquids or gases;

The road consisting of railroad track and roadbed

A telephone connection

Acting in conformity;

The descendants of one individual;

Something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible;

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

In games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area

(often plural) a means of communication or access;

A particular kind of product or merchandise;

A commercial organization serving as a common carrier

Space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising

The maximum credit that a customer is allowed

A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;

A short personal letter;

A conceptual separation or demarcation;

Mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it

Be in line with; form a line along;

Cover the interior of (garments);

Make a mark or lines on a surface;

Mark with lines;

Fill plentifully;

Reinforce with fabric;