Lineate vs Lineation - What's the difference?

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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.

Other Comparisons: What's the difference?

lineate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (zoology) Marked with lines.
  • (botany) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines.
    • a lineate leaf

    Synonyms

    * lineated (Webster 1913) ----

    lineation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A linear feature in rock, often structural
    • magnetic lineations
  • (literature) The way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem
  • *{{quote-book, 2001, Shira Wolosky, The Art of Poetry citation
    • , 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.}}

    Related terms

    *lineate *delineation