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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dotted line
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cut along the dotted lines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But how many of these companies forget about you once you've signed on the dotted line.
▪ In b the slope of each dotted line is less than unity - in each case denoting negative allometry.
▪ It's better to forward them inline, that is, beneath a dotted line.
▪ The dotted line in each diagram separates the superior courts from the inferior courts.
▪ The lucky 10, 000 have signed on the dotted line.
▪ You may want another approach to get people to sign on the dotted line.
Wiktionary
dotted line

n. a line made up of dots or dashes, often used to indicate where you are supposed to sign a contract

WordNet
dotted line

n. a line made up of dots or dashes; often used to indicate where you are supposed to sign a contract; "just sign on the dotted line"

Wikipedia
Dotted Line

Dotted Line or The Dotted Line may refer to

Usage examples of "dotted line".

If we now make HA parallel to BE, then A is the point from which our cut must be made to the corner D, as indicated by the dotted line.

He pushed down, looked at the cue in the holographic HUD, the computer automatically drawing the dotted line for him.

Bracing herself against the moving vehicle, Krysty pointed directly between them and fired, moving the stream of bullets slightly upward, the phosphorescent tracers creating a dotted line along the tunnel.

Some of the control bits sent with every signal denote the time of transmission, so the computer can plot on the display when the signal was sent, which it does by adding a dotted line of matching color in the appropriate place.

This solution would do - if he could get their names on the dotted line quickly enough.

Another puncture just below the first one, then a few above and a few more below, working up and down to make a dotted line, tear here, r-r-rip.

She caught a glimpse of names written and symbols drawn here and there, saw a dotted line connecting islands off the coast of the Westland and out into the Blue Divide.

When a dotted line reaches one of the horizontal lines, and is there marked by a small numbered letter, a sufficient amount of variation is supposed to have been accumulated to have formed a fairly well-marked variety, such as would be thought worthy of record in a systematic work.

And no-one would have thought much about it if people very like Mr Clete of the Musicians' Guild hadn't come along and made maps and put across this part of the desert an innocent little dotted line that marked a border between Klatch and Hersheba.

It probably didn't matter much in the history of the world whether it survived or not, whether the dotted line on the map went one way or the other.

From here the dotted line was just visible, winding treacherously across the sand.

So as a result of the dotted line Klatch was now incipiently at war with Hersheba and the D'regs, Hersheba was at war with the D'regs and Klatch, and the D'regs were at war with everyone, including one another, and having considerable fun because the D'reg word for 'stranger' was the same as for 'target'.