LINE    線條

SHAPE WHICH HAS LENGTH BUT LACKS OR HAS INTENSELY LITTLE BREADTH.
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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 ／
Hyponym
  • STRAIGHT　ALONG the LINE of PERFECTLY SHORT DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS. (anc: 7/0, child: 0)
  • WRINKLE　LINE of DEEP PLACES ON SKIN ETC.. (anc: 7/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
  • SHAPE　APPEARANCE of the PLACE something is in, as PERCEIVED by the EYES, DISREGARDING the SUBJECTIVITY of the APPEARANCE. (anc: 5/0, child: 13)
  • APPEARANCE　CLEAR:visible BUT SUBJECTIVELY PERCEIVED FEATURES. (anc: 4/0, child: 6)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • 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 (6 items)

    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 14 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:
    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".
    弦  xián OC: ɡeen MC: ɦen 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003: hypotenuse
    爻  yáo OC: ɡraaw MC: ɦɣɛu 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words