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thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條|条, , / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
HSK 3
light ray / CL: 條|条, / light / illumination / lighting (for a photograph)
HSK 5
front line
HSK 7-9
itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
front line / military front / workface / cutting edge
HSK 7-9
trail / clues / thread (of a story)
HSK 5
hotline (communications link)
HSK 6
straight line / sharply (rise or fall)
HSK 5
front line / forefront
HSK 7-9
insider trading (illegal share-dealing)
short term
the starting line (of a race) / scratch line (in a relay race)
HSK 7-9
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)
cease-fire line
passing line or score (in an examination)
police cordon / alert level
plumbline
Siegfried Line, line of German military defenses during WWI and WWII
candlestick (in a candlestick chart)
lip liner
horizontal line (in a fraction) / minimum passing score
radio; wireless (i.e. the technology used in radio telecommunication) / a radio
HSK 7-9
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line)
outline; silhouette
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
a hair's breadth apart / a fine line / a fine distinction
cable television
antenna; aerial / (fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people
HSK 7-9
line of sight
HSK 7-9
coastline / seaboard / shoreline
cable / wire / cord (computer)
candlestick chart
to go offline / (of a product) to roll off the assembly line / downline (person below oneself in a pyramid scheme)
bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy; informer; plant
HSK 7-9
foreshadowing (literary device)
line (in drawing, calligraphy etc) / the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)
HSK 7-9
FireWire (IEEE 1394 data-transfer interface)
firing line (battle) / live electrical wire
(electricity) line; circuit; wire / (traffic) road; track; route
HSK 6
main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme
online
along the line (e.g. railway) / the region near the line
HSK 7-9
crosswalk / pedestrian crossing with zebra stripes
America Online (AOL)
to delineate / to draw a line / to underline
cotton thread / yarn cotton
lifeline
HSK 7-9
fuse (for explosives) / (fig.) proximate cause / the last straw
(politics) popular front
assembly line / (computing) pipeline
cosmic ray
a gleam of hope
assembly line / production line
line chart
busy (telephone line)
the mass line, CCP term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses
wireless
HSK 7-9
(computing) offline
cubic curve (geometry)
ray
(music) bar line
to have a ripped seam
linear wave
ruler (used for drawing lines)
horizon
special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL: 條|条
infrared ray
line of magnetic flux
gleam
to do needlework
to get disconnected (from the Internet)
(math.) perpendicular line / vertical line
horizontal line / (math.) horizontal axis
a fine line / a fine distinction
(idiom) a chance of survival; a fighting chance; a ray of hope
(math.) algebraic curve
(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
line graph / line diagram
(computing) near-field communication (NFC)
main line / trunk line
use a long line to catch a big fish (idiom); a long-term plan for major returns
(computing) Universal Serial Bus; USB
timeline
outer ring (road or rail line)
Tropic of Capricorn
domestic flight / internal line (air, train, ferry etc)
national border
to exceed / to overstep the limit
boundary line / border line
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
switchboard operator
dotted line / dashed line / (math.) imaginary line
telephone line
high tension power line
skyline / horizon
hatched lines / cross-hatched graphic pattern
transmission line
crosswalk / zebra crossing
the Greenwich meridian

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