red line

red·line (r

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v. red·lined, red·lin·ing, red·lines

v.intr.

1. To refuse home mortgages or home insurance to areas or neighborhoods deemed poor financial risks.

2. To reach the maximum engine speed at which an engine is designed to be safely operated: The car redlined at 80 miles per hour in fourth gear.

3. Computer Science To mark or highlight edited text, as with a red line, to distinguish it from unedited portions of a document.

v.tr.

1. To discriminate against by refusing to grant loans, mortgages, or insurance to.

2. To remove from operational status because of mechanical defects or the need for scheduled maintenance: redlined three fighter aircraft.

3. Computer Science To mark (edited text) by redlining.

n. or red line

1. A safety limit, as marked on a gauge.

2. Sports

a. The red line at the center of an ice hockey rink, running parallel to the goal lines and dividing the rink in half.

b. Either of two red lines running across an ice hockey rink near the end boards, in the center of which the goal is positioned.

red line

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a point beyond which a person or group is not prepared to negotiate

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Noun

red line - a line that is colored red and that bisects an ice hockey rink

line - in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area

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Blood
Eyelids
line
perpendicularly
redline
rubidium
thinness
warm front

She repressed a smile at sight of the red line that marked the chafe of the collar against the bronzed neck.

Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context

The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.

Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context

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