Line Up

Definition: Line Up

Line Up

Verb

1. Form a line; "The buildings all line up neatly.

2. Get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter".

3. Form a queue, form a line, stand in line.

4. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table".

5. Arrange in ranks; "dress troops".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mining

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Synonyms: Line Up

Crosswords: Line Up

You gonna line up with a dead man Jimbo (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison)

Evelyn! Your kid ate the line up! (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele)

I'm a legend, girl! The chicks line up to divide with me (Osmosis Jones; writing credit: Marc Hyman)

They make you line up in single file so try not to lose your place (Ice Machine In The Desert; performing artist: Brave Combo)

It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• How to Line Up Your Fourth Putt (reference)

• Line Up on the Line (Homonyms) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Line Up (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Beverly Hills Cop - The Complete Line Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Line Up (reference)

• Line Up All the Girls Dem (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The image shows a close-up of a patient's body prior to radiation treatment. A lighted scale is projected onto the body to exactly line up the treatment with the tumor site. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Trucks of grain line up for inspection and unloading at elevator near Charlston, SC. Credit: USDA.

Urban campers line up for a sack race during campout recreation activities. Credit: Cathy Rodine.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Patients line up for mess. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital Nos. 6 & 7, Souilly, France. : American Red Cross canteen, soldiers line up for chocolate. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ship's Marines line up on the flight deck for physical drill, circa mid-1943. Planes on the flight deck include F6F, SBD and TBM types. Note "SK" radar antenna mounted on the stub mast between the stacks and inflatable life belts worn by many of the men on deck. Credit: NAVY.

Fighter plane fitted to fly--The tail of the plane is hoisted up as mechanics prepare to line up the sights of its guns. Credit: Library of Congress.

In front of the building of the People's Commissariat of Communications, Soviet workers line up to watch a parade of German generals and soldiers taken prisoners on the Byelorussian front and paraded through the streets of Moscow / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by M. Mikhailov..

Blood donors at San Quentin line up to fill in donor applications upon arrival of the Red Cross mobile unit. Medical histories are checked by Red Cross workers before blood can be given. Credit: Library of Congress.

8th Army in Tripoli. Journey's end, for a while. British tanks and crews line up on Tripoli's waterfront after capturing the city. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Normally the hiatus and the lower esophageal sphincter line up with each other to keep stomach contents from backing up into the esophagus (a condition called reflux). (references)

Business

The supplier may also want to line up financing options, in the event the buyer expects credit facilities from the seller. (references)

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Expressions using "line up": line up behind ♦ line up with ♦ To line up ♦ to line up figures on the comma. Additional references.

Albanian

vargoj, rreshtoj (align, Aline, array, line, rank), rreshtim (alignment, array, lineup, lining), rresht (consecutively, file, flat out, line, on end, range, rank, row, tier, together), fus në radhë, formacion (formation, forming, lineup, stratum, structure). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنتظم في صف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съюз (alliance, conjunction, connective, federation, guild, hookup, league, union), строяване, строявам (align, draw up, form), сдружение (association, commonwealth, crew, tie up), редица (file, line, parade, range, rank, round, row, run, sequence, variety, various), разгръщане (deployment), групировка (group, grouping), групиране (alignment, disposition), опашка (flapper, line, petiole, queue, scut, stern, tail, tail end), нареждам се на опашка (queue), програма (card, platform, playbill, program, programme, prospectus, routine, schedule, scheme, show, timetable). (various references)

Chinese 

�' (a platoon, row of logs or boards). (various references)

Czech

tvořit řadu, seřazení (arrangement, lineup), seřadit se (fall in), seřadit (align, array, dress, order, string). (various references)

Danish

ved en haevning af temperaturen kan nogle af dislokationerne forsvinde og resten kan samle sig til dislokationsvaegge,saa at de danner underkorngraenser,der omgiver underkorn,der er mindre uregelmaessige end oprindelig (on raising the temperature some of the dislocations are annihilated and the remainder line up in dislocation walls to form sub-grain boundaries emClosing sub-grains ( or lattice blocks ) which are less distorted than they were initially), opstilling omkring decimalpunkt (to line up figures on the comma), danne koe (to line up, to queue up). (various references)

Dutch

in de rý komen (fall in, fall into line, form up), in de rý gaan staan (fall in, fall into line, form up), aantreden (fall in, fall into line, form up). (various references)

Esperanto

enviciĝi (fall in, fall into line, form up). (various references)

Finnish

järjestyä riviin, asettua riviin (draw up in line). (various references)

French

se mettre en rang (form a line), se mettre en queue, parade, file (line), faire la queue (line, make line, stand in line, stand on the line), faire des exercices, composition de l'équipe. (various references)

German

in einer reihe aufstellen, antreten lassen (Marshal, muster), auf die beine stellen (get up), aufreihen (enumerate, list, put in a line, put in a row, string, thread, to string, to string (strung), aufstellen (arrange, array, collect together, deploy, deployment, dispose, draw up, embattle, erect, establish, fix up, install, lay, lay down, make out, make up, Marshal, Mount, nominate, pick, pitch, placement, play, pose, posit, position, post, prick up, put forward, put on, put out, put up, raise, range, select, set, set out, set up, situate, stand up, station, to embattle, to post), aufstellung (array, deployment, disposition, drawing up, erection, installation, inventory, lining up, list, nomination, picking, pitching, posting, putting up, raising, selecting, setting, setting up, specification, stationing, table, tabulation), antreten (assemble, assume, begin, come into, compete, enter upon, fall in, kick start, match, report, sprint, start, take on, take up, to report, tread down), bekommen (agree with, be awarded, be given, catch, develop, do good, expect, gain, get, get in, get off, getting, gotten, have, obtain, pick up, reap, receive, score, take, take on, throw, to obtain, win), verpflichten (be binding, bind, book, carry an obligation, commit, engage, enlist, obligate, oblige, place under an obligation, secure, sign on, sign up, to engage, to obligate, to oblige), konstellation (combination, constellation), mobilisieren (call up, make liquid, mobilize), nebeneinander aufstellen, sich anstellen (act, act up, behave, make a fuss, queue, queue up, stand in line), sich aufstellen, sorgen für (book, cherish, enforce, lay on, organize, provide, provide for, to care for, to look after, to see to, to take care of), ausrichten (accomplish, achieve, act out, align, arrange, bias, bring into line, carry through, deliver, gear, give a message, joggle, justify, organize, orient, orientate, pass on, range, relay, tell, to align, to justify, to orient). (various references)

Greek 

παράταξη (apposition, array, arrayal, arraying, deployment, disposition, grouping, political party), παρατάσσω (array, deploy, line, parade, range, string out), διατάττω εισ γραμμήν. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סת�"ר בתור (queue up), ל�"סת�"ר בשור�" (fall in, form a line), �"ערכות בשור�" (alignment). (various references)

Hungarian

sorba áll (queue up, to fall into line, to fall into rank, to form line, to line up, to stand in a line), sorakozó (alignment, assembly, fall in, line-up, parade), felsorakoztat (align, rank, row, to align, to draw up, to front, to line, to line up, to rank, to row, to row up), felsorakozik (align, fall in, Marshal, to align, to draw up, to fall in line, to fall into line, to form line, to line up), felállítás sportban, felállás (getting up, line-up, parade). (various references)

Indonesian

membanjarkan, berbanjar-banjar, berbanjaran. (various references)

Italian

schierare (array, deploy, draw up, Marshal, range, side, troop), schieramento (array, formation), formazione di gioco, fare la fila (queue, queue up), allineare (align, dress, embattle, fall into line, install, line, put up, range, set up, situate), allineamento (alignment, assembly, installation, lineup). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ライラック色 (lilac, line, line dance, line drive, line editor, line network, line off, line printer, line-feed, lineup, revue dance performed in a line, rhinestone), 並 (average, be in a row, common, equal, medium, ordinary, rank with, rival). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ラインアップ , へい (3rd in rank, be in a row, equal, fence, get together, lean on, lie heavy, rank with, recline on, rival, third sign of the Chinese calendar, wall). (various references)

Manx

roaghey (row, set in rows), jannoo linney, famman y yannoo, cur ayns linney. (various references)

Pig Latin

inelay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

dispor (afford, assort, bunch, collocate, dispose, fix up, incline, lay out, make, ordain, order, park, post, prepare, put right), alinhar (aline, line, range). (various references)

Romanian

poziţie (attitude, bearing, hang, locality, locus, place, position, set, setting, site, situation, stand, standing, standpoint, view). (various references)

Russian 

строй (array, lineup, regime, tune), строиться в ряд, строиться (form), строить в ряд, строить (build, build up, construct, put up), расстановка сил, выравнивать набор. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svrstati (align, assort, classify, match, place, rank), stati u red (queue, queue up), sastav (composition, contexture, lineup, makeup, string, structure), ređati (arrange), postrojiti (align, aline, array, muster, range), postrojavanje (aligning, alignment, lineup), nanišaniti (sight). (various references)

Spanish

meter a uno en fila, alinear (align, Aline, justify, line, play), alinearse (dress, fall in, form up, justify oneself, line), arreglar (accommodate, arrange, assort, do, doctor, dress, fix, fix up, frame, lay out, mend, order, patch up, posh up, put in order, quadrate, regularize, regulate, rig up, set right, settle, sew up, smarten, smarten up, smooth, smooth out, sort, sort out, Square, stage, tell off, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, tie up, trim up), disponer (arrange, command, dictate, dispose, form up, frame, lay down, lay out, make arrangements, ordain, order, prepare, provide, ready, set out, table, trim), formar fila, formar filas (fall in), afilarse (sharpen, taper), hacer filas, tener filas, meterse en fila, ordenar (accommodate, adjure, arrange, assort, classify, command, confer, demand, enjoin, fill an order, make, map out, Marshal, ordain, order, put in order, rank, set in order, set out, sort, table, tell off, tidy out, tidy up, will), organizar (arrange, array, be organized, catalog, catalogue, categorize, do organized, drum up, get organized, get up, give, host, light, live up, make organized, organise, organize, put together, stage, tell off), organizarse (act together, organize), poner en fila, ponerse en fila, sindicar (organize, syndicate, unionize), hacer cola (draggle, queue, queue up). (various references)

Swedish

uppradade personer, ställa upp sig, rada upp (enumerate, string), ordna i rad, konfrontering (confrontation). (various references)

Turkish

sıraya girmek (fall in, queue up), sıraya girme, sıralanmak (align, Aline, be arranged, range), sıralanma, sıralamak (align, Aline, arrange, array, collate, collocate, compile, concatenate, juxtapose, Marshal, put in order, range, string), oyuncuların yerlerini alması, kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, fix up, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, fix up, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up). (various references)

Turkmen 

setilemk (put in lines, rows). (various references)

Ukrainian

стрій (array, range), ставати в чергу (queue up), розташування (arrangement, disposition, lie, order, ordering, ordination, ordonnance, placing, ranking, siting), шикуватися в лінію, вирівнювання (leveling, levelling, smoothing). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lineup, lupine, unpile.

-1 letter: lupin.

-2 letters: lien, lieu, line, lipe, lune, pein, pile, pine, plie, pule, puli.

-3 letters: lei, leu, lie, lin, lip, nil, nip, pen, pie, pin, piu, pul, pun.

-4 letters: el, en, in, li, ne, nu, pe, pi, un, up.

+1 letter: lineups, lupines, pinnule, purline, spinule, unpiled, unpiles, vulpine.

+2 letters: cupeling, perilune, pinnulae, pinnules, pulicene, purlines, spinulae, spinules, splenium, splenius, supinely, tumpline, underlip, unpolite, unripely.

+3 letters: aneuploid, bluepoint, blueprint, cupelling, decupling, depluming, duplexing, epifaunal, expulsing, expulsion, inculpate, insculped, lumpiness, peninsula, penultima, perilunes, plenitude, plentiful, preluding, prelusion, pronuclei, pulpiness, pummeling, purloined, purloiner, quintuple, repulsing, repulsion, spinulose, subalpine, superlain, tumplines, unclipped, underlips, unplaited, unpoliced, unspoiled, upleaping, upwelling.