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linear
adjective as in direct
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adjective as in narrow
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adjective as in straight
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Lepore has a different, though still linear, metaphor for the history of feminism: “a river, wending.”
He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.
But the reasoning only made sense if the tumor grew in a linear, predictable way.
In his own words it was “the linear equivalent of the sensation of flight.”
I call them Hyperserials: shows with a purer, more intense focus on one linear, series-long plotline.
The child now aims at constructing a particular linear representation, that of a man, a horse, or what not.
Curious differences appear in respect of the completeness of this linear noting or enumerating of features.
This habit of scribble may persist after a child attempts a linear description of the parts of an object.
Now the series treated of in the text agrees with this linear progression in nothing whatever but in being a progression.
She says 'fifteen hundred feet'; the law says she ought t' read 'fifteen hundred linear feet.'
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On this page you'll find 164 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to linear, such as: continuous, even, right, straight, true, and beeline.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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