Lineage vs Decent - What's the difference?
lineage | decent |
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=July 19
, author=Ella Davies
, title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex
, work=BBC
(advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
* 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
(obsolete) Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.
(of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.
Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.
Fair; good enough; okay.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword Significant; substantial.
(obsolete) Comely; shapely; well-formed.
* A sable stole of cyprus lawn / Over thy decent shoulders drawn — Milton.
As a noun lineage
is descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.As an adjective decent is
decent (sufficiently clothed).lineage
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Alternative forms
* linageNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
- Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region
See also
* genealogyReferences
* *decent
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
