line out

line out (plural line outs)

1. an audio jack that produces an unamplified signal
2. Alternative form of lineout.
3. Alternative form of line-out.

• line in

line out (third-person singular simple present lines out, present participle lining out, simple past and past participle lined out)

1. to appear in a lineout
2. to take part in a sports event
3. (transitive) To create (something, e.g. parking spaces, lanes in a road) by marking lines on asphalt.
4. (transitive, of trees) To plant in a line.
5. (transitive, of a number, name, etc. on a list) To remove from effective inclusion on a list by crossing an item off.
6. (transitive, of a church leader) To chant each line of a hymn before the congregation must sing it, as an aid for those worshippers who can not read out of a hymnbook.
7. (transitive) To outline (something) to be finished later (often by lining in the drawing.
8. (transitive, by extension) To generally and briefly predict or describe (something).
9. (intransitive) To line up; to form a line.
10. (intransitive) To move or hurry away.
11. To form a contrasting border to another colour.
    • 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:

      Some distance north of both stations was a rather small and tumbledown shed for Great Central engines, and there was generally one or more goods tank engines outside it, painted black and lined out in red.

12. (baseball) To become out by hitting a line drive which is caught.

    Jones lined out to second.

• elution, outline