Definitions for lifeline

lifeline life·line

Spelling: [lahyf-lahyn]
IPA: /ˈlaɪfˌlaɪn/

Lifeline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in lifeline (eefiilln).

Definitions for lifeline

noun

  1. a line, fired across a ship or boat, by means of which a hawser for a breeches buoy may be hauled aboard.
  2. a line or rope for saving life, as one attached to a lifeboat.
  3. any of various lines running above the decks, spars, etc., of a ship or boat to give sailors something to grasp when there is danger of falling or being washed away.
  4. a wire safety rope supported by stanchions along the edge of the deck of a yacht.
  5. the line by which a diver is lowered and raised.
  6. any of several anchored lines used by swimmers for support.
  7. a route or means of transportation or communication for receiving or delivering food, medicine, or assistance:
  8. assistance at a critical time.

Origin of lifeline

First recorded in 1690-1700; life + line1

Examples for lifeline

“Give her the once over and throw out the lifeline,” Jimmie said.

The third and final “lifeline” asked whether von Trier related to his female protagonists as well as his male ones.

Ten months of siege followed as Grant methodically cut the Confederate 39 lifeline.

To step inside Madison Square Garden was to grab hold of a lifeline to an alternate world of harmonic order and balance.

The second “lifeline” was what von Trier had learned about female sexuality by making Nymphomaniac.

Half my memories were doubled, half my lifeline crooked and twisted, three new moles upon my sword-hand.

I thought at least she would see my initials all over your lifeline.

These images, videos and messages became a lifeline between two worlds and a stark record of the distance between them.

Having Texas Republican women try to throw said candidate a lifeline only to smack him in the head with a big-ass anchor.

She wakes with a tearing start from the gray dreams of death that fill her lifeline.

Word Value for lifeline
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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