Word.ws English Dictionary

dotted lines

dotted lines is the plural of dotted line.

Meaning of dotted line

Noun

dotted line (plural dotted lines)

  1. A line made up of dots or dashes, often used to indicate where one is supposed to sign a contract.
    • To the uninitiated, this might sound absurd, with images of chickens signing above the dotted line.2024 November 22, Stephanie Hanes, Melanie Stetson Freeman, “Moody chickens? Playful bumblebees? Science decodes the rich inner lives of animals.”, in The Christian Science Monitor

Questions about dotted lines

What is dotted lines the plural of?
Dotted lines is the plural of dotted line.

Words near dotted lines in the dictionary

  1. dotted decimal
  2. dotted decimals
  3. dotted down
  4. dotted gizzard shad
  5. dotted line
  6. dotted lines
  7. dotted note
  8. dotted notes
  9. dotted quad
  10. dotted quads
  11. dotted Swiss

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dotted lines (page history and authors); dotted line (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dotted lines.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dotted_lines. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.