lin
/lɪn/US/ˈlɪn/
lin verb: to desist, to stop, to cease. Also the alternative spelling of linn.
Verb
lin (third-person singular simple present lins, present participle linning, simple past linned or lan, past participle linned or lan or lun)
- To desist, to stop, to cease.
- Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Lin
Lin (plural Lins)
- A male or female given name.
- A surname
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lin
Lin (plural Lins)
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Lin
Lin
- A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
- Inspired by the communique of the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth CCP Central Committee and in order to greet the convening of the first provincial congress of activists in the creative study and application of Mao Tsetung Thought, the Chinchung Special District Revolutionary Committee recently...1970 October 6 [1970 October 5], “Shansi Special District Holds Activists Congress”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 194, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
- Together with his friend Tang Min, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, Mao established a micro-credit scheme in Lin County of north China’s Shanxi province eight years ago.2002 April 19, Xiao Rong, “'Grandpa Mao' Trains Peasants”, in Beijing Today, number 49, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1
Also used as
lin is also the alternative spelling of linn.
lin is also the alternative form of line.
lin meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lin in Hindi
- लिन
lin in Tamil
- லின்
lin in Marathi
- लिन कडे
lin in Urdu
- لن
More languagesFewer languages
- lin in Bengali
- লিনের প্রতি
- lin in Telugu
- లిన్
- lin in Malayalam
- ലിൻ, ലിനിന്
- lin in Kannada
- ಲಿನ್, ಲಿನ್ಗೆ
- lin in Punjabi
- ਲਿਨ, ਲਿਨ ਤੱਕ
- lin in Odia
- ଲିନକୁ
Examples of lin in a sentence
- LAN parties have been around ever since geeks started playing games on computer networks.
- Sam, carried away by the élan of the performance, was unable to resist joining them.
- Lin had harassed the missionary group multiple times.
Forms of lin
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | lins |
| present participle | linning |
| past | linned |
| past | lan |
| past participle | linned |
| past participle | lan |
| past participle | lun |
| Noun | |
| plural | lins |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Lins |
| alternative form | Lim |
| alternative form | Lam |
| alternative form | Lem |
| alternative form | Ling |
| alternative form | Lang |
| alternative form | Leng |
| alternative form | Lan |
| alternative form | Len |
| alternative form | Nin |
Origin of lin
From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).
See English linn.
From Middle English lin, from Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.
Words formed from lin
Phrases with lin
Words that rhyme with lin
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- chin
- Flynn
- bin
- Quinn
- sin
- tin
- Bryn
- corinne
- inn
- din
- Finn
- grin
- kin
- linn
- unpin
- Benin
- min
- shin
- violin
- wherein
- within
- akin
- been
- begin
- brin
- chin-chin
- hin
- lyn
- mandolin
- whin
- zoom in
- agin
- agrin
- Arabian jasmine
- blin
- djinn
- Douyin
- edge in
- gimme some skin
- glyn
- herein
- jinn
- Karin
- kissing kin
- lecithin
- Nguyen
- nin
Questions about lin
- What does lin mean?
- Lin means to desist, to stop, to cease.
- What is lin in Hindi?
- Lin in Hindi is लिन. See Lin meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lin?
- Lin can be a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lin?
- Lin is pronounced /lɪn/.
- What is the past tense of lin?
- The past tense of lin is linned.
Words near lin in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lin (page history and authors); Lin (page history and authors); lin (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lin (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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