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RELINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reline mean?
• RELINE (verb)
The verb RELINE has 2 senses:
Familiarity information: RELINE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: relined
Past participle: relined
-ing form: relining
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide with a new lining
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
the old fur coat must be relined
Hypernyms (to "reline" is one way to...):
line (cover the interior of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put new lines on
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
reline the paper
Hypernyms (to "reline" is one way to...):
line (mark with lines)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
But if there is a time when you are not meeting grand people, you can wear out your country things, for your brown coat is as good as new, and the blue one, if it were ironed and relined, would take you through the summer.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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