ligne

American  

[leen, leen-y^uh] / lin, ˈlin jə /

noun

• lignes
  plural

1. (in Swiss watchmaking) a unit equal to 0.0888 inch or 2.2558 millimeters, divided into 12 douziemes: used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.

2. line.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• lignes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of ligne

< French: line ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

ligne lignes

Hergé drew his panels in an elegant, instantly recognizable style that has been so influential, it has acquired a name: ligne claire, or clear line.

From Time ● Oct. 31, 2011

Then there was the look of the movie: the challenge of turning Hergé's famous ligne claire into a three-dimensional world that actors could walk around in.

From Time ● Oct. 31, 2011

Not many minutes away was a hospital—what the French call an ambulance de premiere ligne, contrived out of a factory.

From Over There War Scenes on the Western Front by Arnold Bennett

In my opinion, you are a singer hors de ligne.

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various

At 10.54, J. B. came slanting down over me, then pulled up in ligne de vol, and went straight for the lines.

From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall

Its curves and ovals and circles are annoying after the lignes droites and the right angles and the broderies of the French variety.

From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by Blanche McManus

The French term, fuyante or lignes fuyantes, or going-away lines, is more expressive; and point de fuite, instead of vanishing point, is much better.

From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by G. A. (George Adolphus) Storey

Medal for General Morgan, of twenty-four lignes in diameter.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

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