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Definition of Draw a line
1. Verb. Reasonably object (to) or set a limit (on). "I draw the line when it comes to lending money to friends!"
Generic synonyms: Bound, Confine, Limit, Restrain, Restrict, Throttle, Trammel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Draw A Line
Literary usage of Draw a line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"To decide whether a point A, giren by its projections, lies in a platte a, given
by its traces, we draw a line p by joining A to some point in the plane a ..."
2. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: And Surveying by George Albert Wentworth (1887)
"Mark off the number of degrees in the given angle, and draw a line through this
point and the vertex. Fig. 14. Some protractors have an arm which carries a ..."
3. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1921)
"I want you to draw a line around the word "is" because it is the only real word
... draw a line around "is." Look at the next line. What is the real word? ..."
4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1897)
"In the first vertical, below H, lay off HS = Ji. and from S draw a line through
M to the ... From Y draw a line to the sixth vertical and parallel with HH. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In this case wo draw a line parallel to b to moot the lino a. This is easiest
done by drawing first the line ?l?t perpendicular to the axis to meet a. in P, ..."
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