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Hi Tamara
Don't you think that lifeline and live line are words of quite different meanings
As I see it, live line deals with voltage. |
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Dec 14, 2006 13:34 pm Smth ‘can be a real lifeline’ |
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Hi Pamela,
Yes, I had checked dictionaries before posting.
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lifeline and live line are words of quite different meanings
As I see it, live line deals with voltage. |
And yes again, I am aware of that.
But sometimes it is used this way:
http://www.britishweatherservices.co.uk/live_line.htm
...My initial question was rather about the (preferable) spelling for:
lifeline
life-line
life line
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Dec 14, 2006 14:05 pm Smth ‘can be a real lifeline’ |
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Hi Tamara
Here are my interpretations:
Lifeline:
(1) A rope on a ship or boat used for rescuing people in the water
(2) Assistance given at any critical time/in any critical situation
See also the definitions here.
Life line:
A line on the palm of your hand that fortunetellers "read" (to tell you how long your life will be).
Life-line:
(I wouldn't use a hyphen to talk about either one of the above.)
Live line:
This is simply an adjective and a noun and could refer to any line that is "live". For example:
- a line with electrical current
- a working telephone line
- a phone number that connects you to a real person rather than recordings or computers
Liveline:
An invented word (which I don't think I've ever seen before) or possibly the name of something.
Live-line:
If you've actually seen this, I'd say that it's either an invented word or the person just doesn't know how to spell 'lifeline'. :lol:
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:59 am Smth ‘can be a real lifeline’ |
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Hi Amy,
Thanks a lot for your interpretation.
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lifeline
(2) Assistance given at any critical time/in any critical situation |
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live line:
- a phone number that connects you to a real person rather than recordings or computers |
I understand that I feel the words being 'close' and tend to mix them up just because they both can have the meaning 'supportive communication' or something like that.
For example, a phone line that provides vulnerable people some advice and personal assistance at their critical time, not even asking their names, can be referred both as ‘lifeline’ and ‘live live’ – within your interpretation.
Just to add a word here, a lifeline across the Ladoga (that was operated in the period of the Leningrad blockade) in Russian is called "Road of Life" ("Doroga Zhizni", literally).
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life line:
A line on the palm of your hand that fortunetellers "read" (to tell you how long your life will be). |
The link you gave is a good example that it is also can be
lifeline noun
1. a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live [syn: line of life]
WordNet® 2.1, © 2005 Princeton University
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:22 am Smth ‘can be a real lifeline’ |
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Hi Tamara
I do not consider lifeline and live line to be interchangeable. However, a lifeline might consist of or include a live line in some cases.
A lifeline at a critical juncture carries the sense that it saves someone's life -- i.e. that's the degree of 'critical' I'm referring to.
A "live line" could also be, for example, one of those "erotic phone numbers" that you sometimes see advertised on TV in the middle of the night ... :roll:
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:45 am Smth ‘can be a real lifeline’ |
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| a lifeline might consist of or include a live line in some cases. |
Yes, Amy, I meant just that (= 'a live line can be a lifeline in some cases.' )
Not saying a word about a place of 'erotic live lines' in smb(s)' lives. :)
and I don't/didn't insist the words are generally interchangeable.
(Just trying to consider/play with them in the context of the phrase from my initial post.)
Thank you, indeed. Now I feel more confident with the words.
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