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RELATED WORDS : aclinic line acoustic delay line actor's line adonic line agate line agonic line air line assembly line bank line bar line battle line bee line blood line bottom line boundary line branch line bread line bus line business line center line chalk line checkout line chorus line chow line city line color line colour line command line command line interface conga line contour line county line credit line danger line date line delay line demarcation line digital subscriber line direct direct action direct antonym direct contrast direct correlation direct current direct discourse direct dye direct evidence direct examination direct fire direct flight direct loan direct mail direct mailer direct marketing direct object direct primary direct quotation direct sum direct support direct supporting fire direct tax direct tide direct transmission direct trust district line dividing line dotted line draw a line draw the line drive line drive line system drop a line drop line electrical line of force electromagnetic delay line equinoctial line equity credit line fall in line family line fault line feeder line fence line field line finish line finishing line firing line fishing line flight line foreign direct investment foul line front line frown line fuel line gag line gas line geodesic line get a line goal line green line gunter's line hand line hanoverian line hard line harpoon line heart line hold the line hook line and sinker hot line in line in line with international date line isoclinic line isogonal line isogonic line isometric line joint direct attack munition keep in line lancastrian line land line lateral line lateral line organ laugh line lay on the line lead line ledger line leger line life line line line backer line block line coach line double line drawing line drive line duty line engraving line feed line function line item line judge line management line of battle line of business line of control line of credit line of defence line of defense line of descent line of destiny line of duty line of fate line of fire line of flight line of force line of gab line of heart line of inquiry line of latitude line of least resistance line of life line of longitude line of march line of merchandise line of poetry line of products line of questioning line of reasoning line of saturn line of scrimmage line of sight line of succession line of thought line of verse line of vision line of work line officer line one's pockets line organisation line organization line personnel line printer line roulette line score line single line spectrum line squall line storm line triple line up line worker load line log line love line lubber line lubber's line maginot line magnetic line of force main line mason and dixon line mason and dixon's line mason-dixon line melodic line mensal line mooring line new line old line old line state opening line out of line party line personal credit line personal line of credit phone line picket line pipe line plantagenet line plimsoll line plot line plumb line poverty line power line private line product line production line program line property line punch line put on the line rail line railroad line railway line reception line red line regression line rhumb line rivet line royal line sash line scrimmage line service line sewer line ship of the line shoot a line short line side line siegfried line snap line snow line sonic delay line sounding line spectrum line squall line staff line stage direct starting line state line static line stay in line steam line steamship line stepped line straight line stream line streetcar line string line subscriber line supply line tag line telegraph line telephone line ticket line timber line toe the line toll line top of the line towing line transit line transmission line trap line trawl line tree line trend line trip line trolley line trunk line unemployment line verse line vortex line waiting line water line wats line white line yard line

THESAURUS

direct line

affiliation, air line, apparentation, axis, beeline, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, chord, common ancestry, consanguinity, derivation, descent, diagonal, diameter, directrix, distaff side, edge, extraction, family, female line, filiation, great-circle course, house, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, normal, perpendicular, phylum, race, radius, radius vector, right line, secant, seed, segment, sept, shortcut, side, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, strain, streamline, succession, sword side, tangent, transversal, vector

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direct line

Straightness

N straightness, rectilinearity, directness, inflexibility, straight line, right line, direct line, short cut, straight, rectilinear, rectilineal, direct, even, right, true, in a line, unbent, virgate, undeviating, unturned, undistorted, unswerving, straight as an arrow, inflexible, laser-straight, ramrod-straight.

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