Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw a line over (writing): the opposite of underline.
- In manuscript or printed matter, to place a translation over each line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
line drawn over text or arepeating decimal . - verb To draw a
line over or above text.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It began with a large picture of Cameron's face with the overline "Prime minister?" and a larger one below, "REALLY?"
What today's front pages tell us - and the voters they seek to influence 2010
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Mr. Biden said: "The bottom line is, you can't function -- a nation can't compete in the 21st century -- without an immediate, high-quality access for everything from streaming video to information overline."
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The overline for the standalone picture has a basketball flavor: AIR BALL: LINEBACKER TRIES TO DUNK QUARTERBACK.
Putting out the sports section tgilli 2009
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The overline for the standalone picture has a basketball flavor: AIR BALL: LINEBACKER TRIES TO DUNK QUARTERBACK.
Archive 2009-08-01 tgilli 2009
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People who live in the suburbs, who live in the outer regions of London and in what we call the home counties would take an overline train and then get the subway.
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Some vowels were written with an overline -- here shown as a tilde -- representing a following nasal (m or n).
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The overline never occurs in a partial line, as at paragraph-end.
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Now take of the icing sugar and fill your paper funnel as if for cake icing, and overline the pencil marks you made on the stone.
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus
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(Unicode) text readers: ĩõũỹ [i, o, u, y with “tilde” or overline]
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(Unicode) text readers: ãẽĩõũỹ = vowel with “tilde” or overline
The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers Stephen Hawes
ruzuzu commented on the word overline
"An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In mathematical notation, an overline has been used for a long time as a vinculum, a way of showing that certain symbols belong together. The original use in Ancient Greek was to indicate compositions of Greek letters as Greek numerals. In Latin it indicates Roman numerals multiplied by a thousand and it forms medieval abbreviations (sigla)."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overline&oldid=844031262
July 27, 2018