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Interline

//ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌlaɪn// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Between lines. not-comparable

    "Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate."

  2. 2
    Between (or with) two airlines. not-comparable

    "American Airlines and British Airways have an interline agreement to handle each other's baggage and to accept each other's tickets."

Verb
  1. 1
    To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for addition or correction.

    "to interline a page or a book"

  2. 2
    To arrange in alternate lines.

    "When by this way of interlining Latin and Englisſh one with another, he has got a moderate Knowledge of the Latin Tongue, he may then be advanc'd a little farther to the reading of ſome other eaſie Latin Book, […]"

  3. 3
    To imprint or mark with lines.

    "For each contracted frown, / A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow: / Spend but one hour in frowns, and I shall look / Like to a beldam of one hundred years."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From inter- + line.

Etymology 2

From inter- + line.

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