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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 bridges
  2. through draft
  3. through drafts
  4. through draught
  5. through draughts
  6. through line
  7. through lines
  8. through oneself
  9. through out
  10. through road
  11. through station

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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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