Define
Define verb - To draw or make apparent the outline of.
Usage example: the glass skyscraper's sleek silhouette was strikingly defined by the setting sun to its west
Line
Line verb - Make a mark or lines on a surface.
Both words in one sentence
- This line-up would remain stable for more than a decade, and would so define the band's sound that few people are even aware of its early albums and original blues-based aesthetic.
Source: Long Runner Line Up -
What happens to humanity will depend largely on how you define "humanity", and also where you draw the line between success and suicide.
Source: Literature / Echopraxia - There are no such laws for violent content, in large part because it's harder to draw the line (with sexually explicit content, the rule is easily "don't show boobs or privates;" with violence...how do you even define that?).
Source: There Should Be a Law
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