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lifeline
[ lahyf-lahyn ]
noun
- a line, fired across a ship or boat, by means of which a hawser for a breeches buoy may be hauled aboard.
- a wire safety rope supported by stanchions along the edge of the deck of a yacht.
- the line by which a diver is lowered and raised.
- a route or means of transportation or communication for receiving or delivering food, medicine, or assistance:
This road is the town's lifeline and must be kept open despite the snow.
- assistance at a critical time.
lifeline
/ ˈlaɪfˌlaɪn /
noun
- a line thrown or fired aboard a vessel for hauling in a hawser for a breeches buoy
- any rope or line attached to a vessel or trailed from it for the safety of passengers, crew, swimmers, etc
- a line by which a deep-sea diver is raised or lowered
- a vital line of access or communication
Example Sentences
These images, videos and messages became a lifeline between two worlds and a stark record of the distance between them.
They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the Citadel of the Confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable.
The third and final “lifeline” asked whether von Trier related to his female protagonists as well as his male ones.
The second “lifeline” was what von Trier had learned about female sexuality by making Nymphomaniac.
To step inside Madison Square Garden was to grab hold of a lifeline to an alternate world of harmonic order and balance.
Ten months of siege followed as Grant methodically cut the Confederate 39 lifeline.
Even so, he didn't unshackle his inward-reeling lifeline till he was inside the chamber.
Occasionally a lifeline was rigged along the well deck to the poop quarters, a by no means unnecessary precaution.
A cheer burst from the throats of the Boy Scouts as they tailed on the lifeline, and walked backward from the tree with it.
Even these hardy men of the wild dared not venture beyond their door without the lifeline which was always kept handy.
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