lifeline   (TTS Sound)

The noun lifeline has 4 senses

• line of life, life line, lifeline -- (a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live)


• lifeline -- (support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection); "the airlift provided a lifeline for Berlin"; "she offered me a lifeline in my time of grief")


• lifeline -- (line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver)


• lifeline -- (line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning)