线路 (xiàn lù) — (electricity) line, circuit, wire; (transport) route, line, track
Definition
线路 is a technical/system 'line' — a circuit, wire, or transit route built and maintained as infrastructure. Unlike 路 (a physical road) or 路线 (a planned path or ideological course), 线路 refers to the system itself.
noun
(electricity) linecircuitwire(transport) routelinetrack
Measure word · 条
Examples
- 。Qǐng jiǎn chá zhè tiáo diàn huà xiàn lù.Please check this phone line.
- 线路。Dì tiě xiàn lù yǐ jīng kāi shǐ shǐ yòng le.The subway line has already started operating.
- 线路，。Xiǎo xīn zhè tiáo xiàn lù, hěn wēi xiǎn.Be careful with this line — it's very dangerous.
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