Lines vs Limes - What's the difference?
lines | limes |
(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.
A boundary.
* 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 92:
As verbs the difference between lines and limes
is that lines is (line) while limes is .As a noun lines
is .lines
English
Noun
(head) (plural )- If you don't behave I'll give you lines
- I had to write out 200 lines
Statistics
*Anagrams
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) limes.Noun
(limites)- Their presence in the late fourth century on the River Main (immediately to the east of the Roman limes ) is documented in Roman sources, as are their wars with the Alemanni.