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| read between the lines |
| 1. v. To infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly. |
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| If you read between the lines a little, you will realize that he has deeper motives. |
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| Analysis |
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| read |
| 1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. |
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| have you read this book?; he doesn’t like to read |
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| 2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object. |
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| He read us a passage from his new book. |
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| All right, class, who wants to read next? |
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| between |
| 1. prep. In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See Usage notes below.) |
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| John stood between Amy and Mary. Let's meet between two and three. |
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| I want to buy one that costs somewhere between forty and fifty dollars. |
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| 2. prep. Done together or reciprocally. |
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| conversation between friends |
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| the |
| 1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already |
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| I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) |
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| The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) |
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| The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. |
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| 2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. |
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| lines |
| 1. n. plural of line |
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| 2. n. (film, theatre) Words spoken by the actors. |
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| I have yet to learn my lines. |
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| 3. n. (fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy. |
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| 4. n. (shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections. |
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| line |
| 1. n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight. |
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| The arrow descended in a curved line. |
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| 2. n. (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness. |
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| 3. n. (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure. |
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| 4. n. (graph theory) An edge of a graph. |
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