lineage
part of speech
noun (a lineage, lineages)
meaning for a pupil
1) A lineage is the line of your ancestors, the family members who came before you, such as parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. tree →
2) (science) A lineage is a line of living things that descend from a common ancestor. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the mystic school: In notes 01 and 15 lineage is the memory of why things are as they are; "a system without lineage repeats its old mistakes with new variable names". In the primary lessons: History and family studies: kings and queens and their lineage, family trees. Science: evolution and lineages of species. Bible: the lineage of Jesus in Matthew and Luke. It tells the reader where someone comes from.
examples
- Thus memory became lineage. (note 01) tree →
- Geneticists would argue over lineage claims. (note 05) tree →
- They are lineage. (note 15) tree →
- A family can survive without a perfect memory, but not without continuity: someone must remember why the architecture changed, why a strange rule or a redundant-looking test exists, why a joke about frogs became a code. That is lineage, and a system without lineage repeats its old mistakes with new variable names. The fifteenth note adds no new world; it turns around and sees the fourteen already there. (lesson 028) tree →
- The note calls these not implementation details but lineage, and says a system without lineage repeats its old mistakes with new variable names. (lesson 028) tree →
- The queen could trace her lineage back hundreds of years. tree →
- We drew a family tree to show our lineage. tree →
- Birds come from a lineage of dinosaurs. tree →
- The Bible gives the lineage of King David. tree →
- The horse had a famous lineage of champions. tree →
- Her lineage includes Irish and Italian ancestors. tree →
note
Say «LIN-ee-ij» (three parts), not «line-age». Plural: lineages.
Trees and pragmatics
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