interline
1 Americanverb (used with object)
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to write or insert (words, phrases, etc.) between the lines of writing or print.
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to mark or inscribe (a document, book, etc.) between the lines.
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to transfer (freight) from one carrier to another in the course of shipment.
verb (used without object)
adjective
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involving or indicating a transfer of passengers or freight from one carrier to another during travel or shipment.
interline flights.
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of or relating to transactions between competing carriers, especially airlines, by which passengers, baggage, and freight are transferred from one carrier to another using only one ticket or one check-in procedure from departure point to destination.
verb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of interline1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word interlīneāre. See inter-, line 1
Origin of interline2
Example Sentences
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The application, filed on Friday, said the merger would boost competition, streamlining pricing of interline moves for thousands of customer locations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
“Now, if a carrier cancels a flight, you miss a funeral or a wedding, you are out of luck. With an interline agreement, consumers are not put in that untenable situation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
No commercial carriers from the United States fly to Russia, and those with code-share and interline agreements with Russian carriers, including Delta and American, have cut them.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
Alaska said it has also suspended its limited interline relationships with S7 and Aeroflot, the largest carrier in Russia.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Then, rising with aurora's light, The muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline; Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head and bite your nails.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch
He had drawn Cabinet lists, rearranged them, scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes owner of a phonograph shop, then a department store, then a vast phonograph factory, in which mass production and prison methods are satirically interlined.
From Time Magazine Archive
Small and strange was the writing, overwritten and interlined by many hands, and all those hands were dust now.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ragged, worn, blotted, spotted with candle drippings and endlessly interlined, why should these few sheets of paper be saved?
From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Myrtle Reed
Tessa arose and went into Miss Jewett’s bedroom; she knew that the Bible she loved best, the one pencilled and interlined, was always kept on a stand near the head of her bed.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater
Airlines Norwegian Air and Wideroe have agreed to cooperate on the Norwegian domestic market and onward travel, including joint ticket and passenger interlining, the firms said on Tuesday.
From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022
The cloth was faded, its pattern blurred, and the frayed cuff sprouted a fringe of broken threads where the interlining showed through.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
"We were looking at a lot of old 60s couture and paying attention to construction, interlining and ways to build a garment," he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2012
A lightweight, soft Fiberglas interlining for coats was announced by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. to go into men's, women's & children's clothing this winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before sewing the lining on an interlining of cotton wadding should be cut out and basted in place with a few long stitches.
From Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration by Albert B. Farnham
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