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log line

log line is the alternative form of logline.

Meaning of logline

Noun

logline (plural loglines)

  1. A very short summary of a script or screenplay.
    • Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]2013, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack, page 16
  2. The line fastened to the log, and marked for finding the speed of a vessel.
    • Besides the ingenious Pilot knowing the elevation of the Pole in some places of his voyage that he hath passed, by keeping a true, not a dead reckoning of his course in pricking his Card aright, and observing the way with the logge-line, with other currants, will give a very artificiall conjecture...1613, Mark Ridley, A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions

Forms of log line

plurallog lines

Questions about log line

What is log line the alternative form of?
Log line is the alternative form of logline.

Words near log line in the dictionary

  1. log flumes
  2. log in
  3. log into
  4. log jam
  5. log jams
  6. log line
  7. log lines
  8. log off
  9. log on
  10. log onto
  11. log out

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