LINE  線條

SHAPE WHICH HAS LENGTH BUT LACKS OR HAS INTENSELY LITTLE BREADTH.
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Hypernym
  • SHAPEAPPEARANCE of the PLACE something is in, as PERCEIVED by the EYES, DISREGARDING the SUBJECTIVITY of the APPEARANCE.
    • APPEARANCECLEAR:visible BUT SUBJECTIVELY PERCEIVED FEATURES.
      • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
Hyponym
  • STRAIGHT　ALONG the LINE of PERFECTLY SHORT DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS.
    • WRINKLE　LINE of DEEP PLACES ON SKIN ETC..
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. Shéng 繩 is the abstract term for a line is the word for the thread/rope, used figuratively, often expanded to shéng mò 繩墨 "the inkline".

      2. Háng 行 refers specificallty to a line of text. MOVE THIS TO LINE-OF-WRITING

      3. Jìng 徑 refers specifically to the line constituted by a diameter of a circle.

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      線

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      • Novyj objasnitel'nyj Slovar' Sinonimov Russkogo Jazyka ( APRESJAN 2004) p. 517

      • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.84

      Words

      繩  shéng OC: sbljɯŋ MC: ʑɨŋ 39 Attributions

        Syntactic words
      • na spatial concrete line (as straight as an ink-line); ink-line
      • nabfigurativeabstract line; the abstract line demarkating what is legal and what is illegal
      • nconcreteink-line, marking cord; [CLEAR UP THE EXAMPLES FOR THIS: sometimes in transferred sense: the legal ink-line, the line where the permissible ends and the unpermissible begins]
      • viderivedfigurative: follow the carpenter's ink-line> follow the standard ofCH
      繩墨  shéng mò OC: sbljɯŋ mɯɯɡ MC: ʑɨŋ mək 13 Attributions

      Shéng 繩 is the abstract term for a line is the word for the thread/rope, used figuratively, often expanded to shéng mò 繩墨 "the inkline".

        Syntactic words
      • NPink-line
      • NPabfigurativeguideline; an abstract line (e.g. defining what is right and proper, or between what is legal and what is not)
      徑  jìng OC: keeŋs MC: keŋ 1 Attribution

      Jìng 徑refers specifically to the line constituted by a diameter of a circle.

        Syntactic words
      • ndiameter
      • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
      弦  xián OC: ɡeen MC: ɦen 0 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003: hypotenuse
      爻  yáo OC: ɡraaw MC: ɦɣɛu 0 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      面  miàn OC: mens MC: miɛn 0 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003: the line which constitutes the side of a rectilinear surface or of a rectilinear solid. JZ 4.22 開平冪者方百之面十開立冪者方千之面十 "When one extracts the root of a surface quantified extension then the side of a square quantified at 100 is ten; when one extracts the root of a three-dimensional quantified extension then the side of a cube quantified at 1000 is ten." Another example: JZ 4.22 立方適等，求其一面也。"When the sides of a parallellipipede are exactly equal, look for one of its sides".

      Existing SW for

      Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: