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gainline

gainline is the alternative form of gain line.

Meaning of gain line

Noun

gain line (plural gain lines)

  1. an imaginary line running across the pitch perpendicular to the touchline and passing through the breakdown or set piece. The subsequent phase is said to have passed "over the gain line" if the gain line at the subsequent breakdown is in front of the last, or "behind the gain line" if it is behind.

Forms of gainline

pluralgainlines

Questions about gainline

What is gainline the alternative form of?
Gainline is the alternative form of gain line.

Words near gainline in the dictionary

  1. gainless
  2. gainlessly
  3. gainlessness
  4. gainlier
  5. gainliest
  6. gainline
  7. gainlines
  8. gainliness
  9. gainly
  10. Gainor
  11. Gainors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gainline (page history and authors); gain 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.

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