BY-LINE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An auxiliary activity

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("by-line" is a kind of...):

interest; pastime; pursuit (a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "by-line"):

spelaeology; speleology (the pastime of exploring caves)

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

by-line; credit line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("by-line" is a kind of...):

line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)

Meronyms (parts of "by-line"):

author's name; writer's name (the name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work)