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Trad. 線
- thread
- string
- wire
- line
- CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]
- (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
Trad. 線條
- line (in drawing, calligraphy etc)
- the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)
Trad. 共線
- (geometry) collinear
- concurrency (a single road serving as a section of multiple routes)
Trad. 標線
- marking line (painted on a road to guide motorists)
- reticle
- graticule
Trad. 線腳
- seam; stitching
- decorative trim; molding (used to conceal joints in architecture or interior design)
Trad. 線西
- Xianxi or Hsienhsi Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan
Trad. 連線
- electrical lead; connecting line
- (Tw) to connect (to a network, device etc); to go online; connection
- (congressional) caucus
Trad. 底線
- bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept
- (sports) baseline
- (sewing) under thread
- spy; informer; plant
Trad. 放線
- (angling) to play a fish
- (kite-flying) to let the string out
- (dating) to play the field
Trad. 全線
- the whole front (in a war)
- the whole length (of a road or railway line)
Trad. 墨線
- inked line
- carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
Trad. 複線
- multiple track (e.g. rail)
- multilane (e.g. highway)
- (math.) complex line
Trad. 基線
- baseline (surveying, budgeting, typography etc)
- (math.) base (of a triangle)
Trad. 外線
- (military) line of troops encircling an enemy position
- (telephony) outside line
- (basketball) outside the three-point line
Trad. 引線
- fuse (for an explosive device)
- electrical lead
- intermediary
- catalyst
- (dialect) sewing needle
Trad. 出線
- (sports) to go out of bounds
- to go over the line
- to qualify for the next round of competition
- (Tw) (fig.) to make the grade
- to achieve success
Trad. 光線
- light ray
- CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]
- light
- illumination
- lighting (for a photograph)
Trad. 麵線
- misua; wheat vermicelli (very thin variety of wheat noodles used esp. in Fujian)
Trad. 主線
- main line (of communication)
- main thread (of a plotline or concept)
- central theme
Trad. 聲線
- voice (as sth that may be described as husky 沙啞|沙哑[sha1 ya3] or deep 低沉[di1 chen2] etc)
- (physics) sound ray
Trad. 動線
- path taken by people moving through a space; flowline (in architecture, interior design, urban planning etc)
Trad. 踩線
- to scout for a tour operator
- to reconnoiter a potential tour itinerary
- (tennis) to commit a foot fault
Trad. 牽線
- to pull strings
- to manipulate (a puppet)
- to control from behind the scene
- to mediate
Trad. 在線
- online; connected to the Internet
- (fig.) (coll.) (of a person) mentally focused; engaged; (of skills, performance etc) sharp; on point; functioning at a high level
Trad. 專線
- special-purpose phone line or communications link
- hotline
- special rail line (e.g. between airport and city)
- CL:條|条[tiao2]
Trad. 走線
- (neologism c. 2021) (slang) to illegally migrate (esp. from China to the U.S. via Latin America through high-risk routes)
- a route of such illegal migration
Trad. 母線
- generating line
- generatrix (in geometry)
- bus (in electronics)
- bus bar
Trad. 壓線
- pressure crease
- fig. to toil for sb else's benefit
- line ball (i.e. on the line)
Trad. 陣線
- a front (militant group)
- line of battle
- alignment (towards a political party etc)
Trad. 下線
- to go offline
- (of a product) to roll off the assembly line
- downline (person below oneself in a pyramid scheme)
Trad. 路線
- itinerary
- route
- political line (e.g. right revisionist road)
- CL:條|条[tiao2]
Trad. 折線
- broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)
- polygonal line
- dog leg
Trad. 上線
- to go online; to put sth online
- to reach a specific standard
- to put into production
- handler (person who oversees and directs the activities of another person in a gang, spy ring etc)
Trad. 摺線
- variant of 折線|折线[zhe2 xian4], broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)
- polygonal line
- dog leg
Trad. 斷線
- (of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break
- (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued
- (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected
- cut off
Trad. 天線
- antenna; aerial
- (fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people
Trad. 事業線
- (palmistry) fate line; career prospects line (running vertically up the palm to the base of the middle finger)
- (slang) cleavage
Trad. 線西鄉
- Xianxi or Hsienhsi Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan
Trad. 馬甲線
- (neologism c. 2013) (coll.) vertical groove visible on either side of the belly in a person with well-toned abs
Trad. 風景線
- a strip of scenic beauty (coast, river, road etc)
- (fig.) an eye-catching feature
Trad. 插線板
- power strip
- powerboard (with multiple electrical sockets)
Trad. 無線電
- radio; wireless (i.e. the technology used in radio telecommunication)
- a radio
Trad. 主幹線
- trunk line (of road, network etc)
- backbone (cable)
Trad. 起跑線
- the starting line (of a race)
- scratch line (in a relay race)
Trad. 引火線
- fuse (for explosives)
- (fig.) proximate cause
- the last straw
Trad. 分數線
- horizontal line (in a fraction)
- minimum passing score