interline

To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for addition or correction.

Adjective

  1. Between lines.
    • Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate. - 1986, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986, IEEE, page 145:
  2. Between (or with) two airlines.
    • American Airlines and British Airways have an interline agreement to handle each other's baggage and to accept each other's tickets.
    • I had an interline connection from Delta to AA in Dallas/Ft. Worth.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Middle French lignerbor. English line English interline From inter- + line.

Related

offline

Verb

  1. To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for addition or correction.
    • to interline a page or a book
    • Then riſing with Aurora’s Light, / The Muse invok’d, ſit down to write; / Blot out, correct, inſert, refine, / Enlarge, diminiſh, interline; / Be mindful, when Invention fails, / To ſcratch your Head, and bite your...
  2. To arrange in alternate lines.
    • When by this way of interlining Latin and Englisſh one with another, he has got a moderate Knowledge of the Latin Tongue, he may then be advanc'd a little farther to the reading of ſome other eaſie Latin Book, […] -...
  3. To imprint or mark with lines.
    • For each contracted frown, / A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow: / Spend but one hour in frowns, and I shall look / Like to a beldam of one hundred years. - c. 1600 (date written; first published 1657), attributed to...

Forms

interlines interlining interlined