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through-line

through-line is the alternative form of throughline.

Meaning of throughline

Noun

throughline (plural throughlines)

  1. In full through line of action: a theme that runs through the plot of a book, film, or other narrative work, or a series of such related works.
    • Produced by none other than Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Good Boys again most closely resembles a kind of junior-varsity tryout for that duo's Superbad, down to its modestly affecting emotional through-line: an acceptance of the fact that childhood friendships, forged out of proximity and...2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021
  2. A railway route that passengers can take without needing to change trains.

Forms of through-line

pluralthrough-lines

Questions about through-line

What is through-line the alternative form of?
Through-line is the alternative form of throughline.

Words near through-line in the dictionary

  1. through-hikers
  2. through-hikes
  3. through-hiking
  4. through-hole technologies
  5. through-hole technology
  6. through-line
  7. through-lines
  8. through-shine
  9. through-stitch
  10. through-stone
  11. through-stones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: through-line (page history and authors); throughline (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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