line out

plural line outs

1. an audio jack that produces an unamplified signal
2. alternativeAlternative form of lineout.
3. alternativeAlternative form of line-out.

present singular third person lines out · participle present lining out · participle past lined out · past lined out

1. intransitiverugby unionTo appear in a lineout.
2. intransitiveTo take part in a sports event.
3. transitiveTo create (something, e.g. parking spaces, lanes in a road) by marking lines on asphalt.
4. transitiveTo plant in a line.
5. nametransitiveetc. on a listTo remove from effective inclusion on a list by crossing an item off; to cross out.
6. transitiveTo chant each line of a hymn before the congregation must sing it, as an aid for those worshippers who can not read out of a hymnbook.
7. transitiveTo outline (something) to be finished later (often by lining in the drawing).
8. broadlytransitiveTo generally and briefly predict or describe (something).
9. intransitiveTo line up; to form a line.
10. intransitiveTo move or hurry away.
11. transitiveTo apply border lines to (something) in a contrasting colour.

    Some distance north of both stations was a rather small and tumbledown shed for Great Central engines, and there was generally one or more goods tank engines outside it, painted black and lined out in red.

    1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19

12. intransitiveball gamesTo become out by hitting a line drive which is caught.

    Jones lined out to second.