By-line

Definition: By-line

By-line

Noun

1. A line giving the name of the writer of a story or article.

2. An auxiliary activity.

Synonyms: By-line

Synonyms: avocation (n), credit line (n), hobby (n), sideline (n), spare-time activity (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: By-line

English words defined with "by-line": author's name ♦ writer's name. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"By-line" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "By-line" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	24	71,196

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "by-line": line-by-line.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "by-line"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�线. (various references)

French		ligne sous le titre qui annonce l'auteur (byline). (various references)

German		Autorenzeile (byline). (various references)

Italian		firma del giornalista in testa al servizio (byline). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		バイヤー法 (all-terrain vehicle, baccalaureat, bacteria, bacteriophage, Bagdad, baggy look, bagpipe, baguette, basilisk, bass, bassoon, bath, baumkuchen, Bayer process, bazaar, bilingual, bind, binder, binding, bounce, bound, bow side, bucket, budget, bug, bug fix, bug list, bug report, bugbear, buggy, bus, holidays, honey wagon, pail, sand buggy, surf clam, vacation, vacuum, vacuum car, vacuum cleaner, vagabond, vagina). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		バイライン . (various references)

Korean		에 의하여 � . (various references)

Pig Latin		y-linebay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: byline.
	Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-n-y"
	-1 letter: inbye, liney.
	-2 letters: bile, bine, blin, inby, inly, lien, line, liny.
	-3 letters: bel, ben, bey, bin, bye, lei, ley, lib, lie, lin, lye, neb, nib, nil, yen, yin.
	-4 letters: be, bi, by, el, en, in, li, ne, ye.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-n-y"
	+1 letter: belying, bylined, byliner, bylines.
	+2 letters: belaying, bellying, benignly, benzylic, beryline, binately, biphenyl, bovinely, byliners, deniably, enviably, sensibly, tensibly, vendibly.
	+3 letters: beladying, biphenyls, definably, indelibly, ineffably, sibylline.
	+4 letters: becomingly, biennially, blarneying, debonairly, defensibly, ebulliency, eyeballing, incredibly, inevitably, inexorably, inexpiably, inflexibly, insensibly, nebulosity, negligibly, neighborly, noticeably, obediently, obeisantly, ostensibly, plebeianly, tenability, terminably, undeniably.
	+5 letters: abstinently, amblygonite, amenability, banteringly, befittingly, beguilingly, bellyaching, benightedly, benignantly, bimillenary, bipinnately, brainlessly, conceivably, convertibly, deniability, dingleberry, discernibly, ebulliently, embracingly, impregnably, inalienably, inalterably, indefinably, ineluctably, inequitably, inescapably, inestimably, inexcusably, innumerably, inseparably, insuperably, intolerably, isobutylene, lingonberry, molybdenite, observingly, obstinately, openability, rentability, responsibly, sensibility, undesirably, vendibility.
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