Hypernyms for "line"

More general terms or categories

accountancy accounting aclinic line actor''s line agonic line airline airline business airway apparent horizon appointment ascender axis babbitt back channel balkline bar line baseline battle line battlefront baulk-line becket berth billet biz bottom line bound boundary branch line by-line calling career casuistry catering center line centerline chorus chorus line circumscribe coax coax cable coaxial cable confectionery conga line construct consumer credit contact cord course craft credit line crest crib crisscross cross hair cross wire crow''s feet crow''s foot curlicue current curve curved shape danger line dateline dermatoglyphic descender diagonal digital subscriber line divide dotted line DSL edge electrical cable employment excuse face family family line fanfare farming fault line fiber optic cable fibre optic cable field line file finish line finishing line firing line flight line flourish flow folk foul line front front line frown line gag line game gas line geodesic geodesic line glissando goal line graduation great circle guideline hairline hatch head header heading heart line hemline hipline horizon hot line idea Indian file inscribe inter-group communication isarithm isogonal line isogone isogonic line isogram isometric isometric line isopleth itinerary kinfolk kinsfolk land land line landline laniard lanyard latitude laugh line ledger line leger line leitmotif leitmotiv lens liaison life line lifeline line of battle line of destiny line of fate line of force line of gab line of heart line of inquiry line of latitude line of life line of march line of poetry line of questioning line of Saturn line of scrimmage line of sight line of succession line of verse line of vision linemen lineup link love line loxodrome lunar latitude magnetic equator mainsheet medium melodic theme mensal line metier mooring mooring line musical theme office oil pipeline opening line orphan out of bounds painter parallel parallel of latitude part parting party line path patter perimeter photography phratry picket line place point of no return policy position post power cable power line printer cable private line profession punch line quadrant quarter-circle queue railroad railroad line railway railway line railway system rank ratlin ratline red line reline rhumb rhumb line rim rivet line rope roulade route row Rubicon salt mine scratch scratch line scrimmage line sensible horizon sept serif seriph service line shaft sheet shroud side sideline signature signature tune single file situation skyline snow line sound bite spectrum line speech spiel sport spot spur spur track squiggle staff line start starting line steamship company steamship line straight line strand stream string line tack tag line theme theme song timber line timberline toll line towing line towing rope towline towrope trace track trade transit line trap line treadmill tree line trend line trunk line trunk route tucket verse verse line visible horizon vocation voice waiting line water level water line water parting waterline watermark watershed WATS WATS line weather sheet words work write yard line
What are hypernyms?

Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.

Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.