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Definition of Drop line
1. Noun. A headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right.
Generic synonyms: Headline, Newspaper Headline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drop Line
Literary usage of Drop line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"Humming may be prevented by breaking, in some manner, the uniform direct mechanical
connection between the line wire and the building to which the drop line ..."
2. Newspaper Writing and Editing by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (1913)
"Graphically these forms may be represented thus: (1) Drop-line (2) ... The drop-line
head may consist of two, three, or four parts arranged as in the ..."
3. Modern American Telephony in All Its Branches by Arthur Bessey Smith (1912)
"The cord circuits may be used indiscriminately for connecting a lamp line to a
lamp line, a lamp line to ti drop line, or a drop line to a drop line, ..."
4. The Country Weekly: A Manual for the Rural Journalist and for Students of by Phil Carleton Bing (1917)
"The drop-line head, which is rarely used except for the first deck, ... In the
two-part drop-line, which is the commonest form in country papers, ..."
5. Principles and Practice of Show-card Writing, Prepared in the Extension by Lawrence E. Blair (1922)
"drop line.—Line to which long descending strokes are dropped. ... The lower case
stroke descending below the base line to the drop line. ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... with a drop-line to Bridport at Maiden-Newton. The main line of the London
and South-Western likewise touches the north of the county uear Shaftesbury, ..."
7. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1901)
"As early as February, and long before it leaves the cocoon, young Argiope can
spin a little drop line, but the line is short; it requires considerable ..."
8. The Writing of News: A Handbook with Chapters on Newspaper Correspondence by Charles Griffith Ross (1911)
"Two-deck head consisting of drop line in caps and pyramid in caps and lower ...
The top deck here is a drop line: the sentence drops down from one type line ..."
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