lineal
- adjective
- /ˈlɪniəl/
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lineal
- When both lineal and collateral joint units, along with their supplemented types, are considered together, they account for only 18.8 percent of all households of the three villages combined.
- lineal joint
Examples
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Design loads for shelves of books usually run at about 50 lbs per lineal foot, and most of your supports seem adequate.
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When measuring materials, it's important to consider the cost per lineal yard to estimate expenses accurately.
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Western cultural time is usually conceived of as a rigid, sequential structure, lineal, and virtually irreversible.
Academic text (1991) -
As Joseph Epes Brown writes, "Within traditional Native American cultures, time tends to be experienced as cyclical and rhythmic rather than as lineal and 'progress'-oriented" (28).
Academic text (1999) -
According to this new categorization, the nuclear includes all households which were classified in Table 2 as nuclear, subnuclear, and supplemented subnuclear; the supplemented nuclear remains the same; and the joint includes lineal and collateral joints as well as their supplemented types.
Academic text (1993) -
Additionally, he acquired all belts one by one, not by beating one guy with two or more belts (like Lennox Lewis or Evander Holyfield), which makes him not only lineal champ (by taking it away from belt holders) but also the establisher of a new lineage.
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The garden path is lined with lineal stones, creating a straight path to the front door.
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The artist used a lineal design in her mural, emphasizing straight lines and geometric shapes.
Synonyms
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1.0
In a direct line without turning
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6.1
Long and narrow with nearly parallel sides like grass leaves
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8.9
A shape or movement that has straight lines rather than curves
Made of straight lines or moving in straight lines
Shaped like a line
Antonyms
How Straight
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lineal comes from the Latin word linea meaning 'line'. You see the same root in line and linear, so lineal describes something arranged in or like a straight 'line'.