WHITE LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white line mean? 

• WHITE LINE (noun)
  The noun WHITE LINE has 1 sense:

1. a white stripe in the middle of a road to mark traffic lanes

  Familiarity information: WHITE LINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE LINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white stripe in the middle of a road to mark traffic lanes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("white line" is a kind of...):

point of reference; reference; reference point (an indicator that orients you generally)

 Context examples 

It may also have a white tip on the tail, a white star on the chest, white on toes and/or a thin white line down the center of the face.

(Pharaoh Hound, NCI Thesaurus)

It uses sensors to stay on the white line.

(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)

Already the white lines in the east were deepening into pink as the archers gathered round the keep and took counsel how to rescue the survivors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The waxen face; the high aquiline nose, on which the light fell in a thin white line; the parted red lips, with the sharp white teeth showing between; and the red eyes that I had seemed to see in the sunset on the windows of St. Mary's Church at Whitby.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This time, as the distance was short, I did not mount, but ran with Dogger's stirrup-leather to the lodge gates and up the long, leafless, moonlit avenue to where the white line of the hall buildings looked on either hand on great old gardens.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A Chinese company has unveiled a driverless bus-train hybrid that uses white lines painted on the road to navigate.

(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)