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Definition of Line up
1. Verb. Form a line. "The buildings all line up neatly"
2. Verb. Get something or somebody for a specific purpose. "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
3. Verb. Form a queue, form a line, stand in line. "Customers lined up in front of the store"
Generic synonyms: Stand, Stand Up
Entails: Wait
Derivative terms: Lineup, Queue
4. Verb. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight. "Align the sheets of paper on the table"
Specialized synonyms: Address, Synchronise, Synchronize, Realign, Realine, True, True Up, Collimate, Concenter, Concentre, Focalise, Focalize, Focus
Generic synonyms: Reorient
Derivative terms: Alignment
Antonyms: Skew
5. Verb. Arrange in ranks. "Dress troops"
6. Verb. Take one's position before a kick-off.
Definition of Line up
1. Noun. (legal) a physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime ¹
2. Noun. (Canada) A line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end. ¹
3. Noun. (sports) Collectively, the members of a team. ¹
4. Noun. (baseball) The batting order. ¹
5. Verb. (engineering) to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To put things in a line ¹
7. Verb. (intransitive) To get into a line ¹
8. Verb. (intransitive sports) To start a game in a certain position on the playing field. ¹
9. Verb. make arrangements for an event. ¹
10. Verb. to support a group or movement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Up
Literary usage of Line up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1898)
"A line-up, a snap-back, a toss to the left half-back, Tug is boosted over the
... Line-up again. Tug gives the old signal "8-17-33-9." It sounds familiar. ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Continued Austria-Hungary's leaders In the new line-up. 11 R of Rs 51:305-10
Mr '15 Austria In the future. FH Simonds. New Austrian problems. ..."
3. The Gypsy Trail: An Anthology for Campers by Mary Hopkins, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark (1914)
"line up, Billy, line up, boys, The east is gray with coming day, We must away,
we cannot stay. Hy-o, hy-ak, brave boys! " Five hundred miles behind us lie, ..."
4. Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1898)
"After 50, is. lid. per line. hue up to 50. After 50, 2s. per hue. amid is. 6d.
for each additional line up to 50. After 50, 2s. per line. ..."
5. The "Quincy Methods" Illustrated: Pen Photographs from the Quincy Schools by Lelia Ellen Patridge (1885)
""Around," says the teacher, and all the hands move on together in the air, while
she continues, "down to the bottom line—up again, as high as before,—down ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the line-up the seven linemen (ie forwards) face each other on a line parallel
to the goal- lines on the spot where it was ordered down by the referee. ..."
7. The Springfield Survey: Study of Social Conditions in an American City by Shelby Millard Harrison, Russell Sage Foundation Dept. of Surveys and Exhibits, Springfield Survey Committee (Springfield, Ill.) (1918)
"The group shall line up in single file back of the starting line. At a distance
of 20 yards from the starting line there shall be two circles, ..."
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