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HSK
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)
candlestick chart
front line
HSK 7-9
(idiom) a chance of survival; a fighting chance; a ray of hope
light ray / CL: 條|条, / light / illumination / lighting (for a photograph)
HSK 5
to delineate / to draw a line / to underline
busy (telephone line)
online
underscore _ / underline
integrated wiring
long term
candlestick (in a candlestick chart)
a fine line / a fine distinction
cubic curve (geometry)
special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL: 條|条
hyperbolic sine or sinh (math.)
insider trading (illegal share-dealing)
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
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) wire-tailed swallow (Hirundo smithii)
mitochondrion
contour line
branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)
(music) staff / stave
passing line or score (in an examination)
bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy; informer; plant
HSK 7-9
united front
Wi-Fi hotspot
pipeline / general term for pipes, cables etc
earth (wire) / ground
assembly line / (computing) pipeline
twisted pair (cabling)
shamisen, three-stringed Japanese musical instrument
middle road (in politics)
the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line)
front line / forefront
HSK 7-9
graph of average values
horizon
main line / trunk line
telephone line / telephone wire
underline
linear / linearity
main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme
eyeliner (cosmetics)
line of magnetic flux
sweater / woolen knitwear / wool
horizontal line (in a fraction) / minimum passing score
tropic / one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer
broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments) / polygonal line / dog leg
front line / military front / workface / cutting edge
HSK 7-9
path taken by people moving through a space; flowline (in architecture, interior design, urban planning etc)
straight line / sharply (rise or fall)
HSK 5
starting line
a gleam of hope
gamma rays
to thread a needle / (fig.) to act as a go-between
quadratic curve (geometry) / conic
wiring / to connect a wire
pressure crease / fig. to toil for sb else's benefit / line ball (i.e. on the line)
Tropic of Cancer
radio; wireless (i.e. the technology used in radio telecommunication) / a radio
HSK 7-9
yarn
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
minimum passing score for admission
radio broadcast
watershed
half-way line / median line
line segment
one-way road
parabola
wiring
central axis (line)
extension cord / extended line / powerstrip
line chart
the front line / the attack (e.g. football forwards)
radiation / rays of radiation
a kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)
moving average (in financial analysis)
crosswalk / pedestrian crossing with zebra stripes
voice (as sth that may be described as husky 沙啞|沙哑 or deep 低沉 etc) / (physics) sound ray
foreshadowing (literary device)
wired / cable (television)
to go offline / (of a product) to roll off the assembly line / downline (person below oneself in a pyramid scheme)
battle line / battlefront / front
streamline (physics)
meridian
line of project / projection line
knitting needle
a strip of scenic beauty (coast, river, road etc) / (fig.) an eye-catching feature
jigsaw
skyline / horizon
Tropic of Capricorn
incense stick
(Tw) wireless network; Wi-Fi
radio wave
computer bus
to get disconnected (from the Internet)
curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way
HSK 7-9
(math.) elliptic curve
to shift one's eyes / (fig.) to shift one's attention / to divert attention
transmission line

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