Lineate vs Lineation - What's the difference?
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(zoology) Marked with lines.
(botany) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines.
(geology) A linear feature in rock, often structural
(literature) The way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem
*{{quote-book, 2001, Shira Wolosky, The Art of Poetry
, passage=Lineation is very much a matter of syntax, organizing the poem's grammar across its lines in ways significant and central to the poem's meaning.}}
Lineation is a related term of lineate.
As an adjective lineate
is marked with lines.As a noun lineation is
a linear feature in rock, often structural.lineate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a lineate leaf
Synonyms
* lineated (Webster 1913) ----lineation
English
Noun
(en noun)- magnetic lineations
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