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HSK
light ray / CL: 條|条, / light / illumination / lighting (for a photograph)
HSK 5
straight line / sharply (rise or fall)
HSK 5
itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
front line
HSK 7-9
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
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)
bottom line; the limit of what one is prepared to accept / (sports) baseline / (sewing) under thread / spy; informer; plant
HSK 7-9
front line / forefront
HSK 7-9
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thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條|条, , / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
HSK 3
to delineate / to draw a line / to underline
busy (telephone line)
underscore _ / underline
integrated wiring
long term
candlestick (in a candlestick chart)
cubic curve (geometry)
front line / military front / workface / cutting edge
HSK 7-9
special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL: 條|条
hotline (communications link)
HSK 6
contour line
branch line / side road / spur / fig. secondary plot (in a story)
passing line or score (in an examination)
curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way
HSK 7-9
united front
wireless
HSK 7-9
pipeline / general term for pipes, cables etc
line of sight
HSK 7-9
earth (wire) / ground
assembly line / (computing) pipeline
along the line (e.g. railway) / the region near the line
HSK 7-9
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)
graph of average values
horizon
main line / trunk line
lifeline
HSK 7-9
telephone line / telephone wire
underline
main line (of communication) / main thread (of a plotline or concept) / central theme
line of magnetic flux
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
path taken by people moving through a space; flowline (in architecture, interior design, urban planning etc)
starting line
gamma rays
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)
limits / bounds / dividing line
HSK 7-9
Tropic of Cancer
yarn
trunk line (of road, network etc) / backbone (cable)
minimum passing score for admission
watershed
half-way line / median line
one-way road
parabola
wiring
central axis (line)
extension cord / extended line / powerstrip
the front line / the attack (e.g. football forwards)
radiation / rays of radiation
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
wire / power cord / CL:
HSK 7-9
line of project / projection line
a strip of scenic beauty (coast, river, road etc) / (fig.) an eye-catching feature
skyline / horizon
Tropic of Capricorn
computer bus
to get disconnected (from the Internet)
(math.) elliptic curve
to shift one's eyes / (fig.) to shift one's attention / to divert attention
transmission line
cosmic ray
marking line (painted on a road to guide motorists) / reticle / graticule
national border
short term
antenna; aerial / (fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people
HSK 7-9
cease-fire line
sewing thread / suture
ray
outline; silhouette
railway line
plumbline
tangent line (geometry)
generating line / generatrix (in geometry) / bus (in electronics) / bus bar
insider contacts / via private channels / to seek influence with sb via family members (possibly dishonest or underhand)
rice-flour noodles
infrared ray

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