Lines vs Dines - What's the difference?
lines | dines |
(fortifications, in the plural) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
(shipbuilding, in the plural) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
(education, in the plural) A school punishment in which a student must repeatedly write out a line of text related to the offence (e.g. "I must be quiet in class") a specified number of times; the lines of text so written out.
(US, in the plural) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
(dine)
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
(obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
(obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
As verbs the difference between lines and dines
is that lines is third-person singular of line while dines is third-person singular of dine.As a noun lines
is plural of lang=en.lines
English
Noun
(head) (plural )- If you don't behave I'll give you lines
- I had to write out 200 lines
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Verb
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* * * ----dine
English
Verb
(din)- A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
- What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.
