end of the line
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5.3
- noun
- Specialized
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fin de línea
- When you reach the end of the line, it signifies that you've completed your input.
- the other end of the line
Examples
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I asked you before to find the end of the line.
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And I tied a note to the end of the line.
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The split pattern involves both hands reading together until almost the end of the line.
Academic text (2009) -
Then, select the Anti-aliased and End check boxes to position your arrowhead at the end of the line.
Academic text (2000) -
There's no semicolons at the end of the line in Ruby and just that simple change cleans things up a bunch.
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The program outputs a special character at the end of the line to indicate where the text finishes.
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Make sure to check each end of the line in the document to ensure proper formatting before printing.
Synonyms
4
3.1
A break that moves text to the next line
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4.4
A special mark in computer text that ends a line and starts the next
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7.0
A key or action that moves the cursor to the start of a new line
A special mark in text files that starts the next line
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'end' (final point) combined with 'line' (a row of text) yields the location where a line finishes, so a B1 learner who knows the words can infer it refers to the line's termination. In computing the phrase maps to a newline/line-termination marker, a technical realization that may require domain knowledge but does not change the transparent, literal relation of the parts.
Etymology
End of the line is used in computers from the idea of a last mark that finishes a row of text. The end of a line is a small 'marker' or 'character' that shows where the line stops, so the phrase means 'the character that shows the end of a line of text'.