Definitions for lifelines

lifelines life·line

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

Lifelines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in lifelines (eefiillns).

Definitions for lifelines

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 lifelines

First recorded in 1690-1700; life + line1

Examples for lifelines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for lifelines
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

Similar words for lifelines
Word of the day