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LINE-UP

Specialty Definition: LINE-UP

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

The positioning of a diffusion mask above a photo-etch-resist resin layer on the surface of a semiconductor slice, so that the pattern of this mask level is consistent with that of other levels of the mask set. Source: European Union. (references)
 The adjustment of transmission parameters to bring a circuit up to its specified values, such as attenuation, delay, signalling, distortion, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: LINE-UP

English words defined with "LINE-UP": start. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LINE-UP": LINE-UP EXAMINER. (references)

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Modern Usage: LINE-UP

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Line-Up at Police Headquarters (1914)

Line-Up and Teasing the Snakes (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: LINE-UP

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: LINE-UP

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

West Virginia: The same old line-up! / Boardman Robinson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: LINE-UP
 

"Sailboat line-up" by Frank P.J. Van Haalen
Commentary: "Line-up in the harbor of Stellendam, Holland, The Netherlands."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LINE-UP

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Guatemala

However, the men were released in October after a witness failed to recognize them in a line-up, and it was determined that the weapon the detainees were carrying did not match the murder weapon. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LINE-UP

"LINE-UP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.79% of the time. "LINE-UP" is used about 478 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.79%47712,448
Adjective (general or positive)0.21%1339,140
                    Total100.00%478N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: LINE-UP

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "LINE-UP": line-up-outside-the-door-and-you-can't-come-in-until-you're-quiet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LINE-UP

Language Translations for "LINE-UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

联盟 (Alliance, Allied). (various references)

   

Danish

  

registrering (directory entry, entry, registration), koe (queue, wait list), indregulering (lining-up), alignment (registration). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wachtlijst (waiting list), uitrichting (alignment, registration), niveau-inregeling, justering (registration), inregeling (lining-up). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

säätö (adjustment, regulation), säätäminen (lining-up), rekisteröinti (obligation of notification, obligatory notification, registration, service registration, supplementary service registration), päällekkäinasetus (registration), kohdistus (alignment, centring, register, registration), kirjaus (booking, registration), kirjaaminen (booking, entry, registration). (various references)

   

French

  

réglage (lining-up), queue (line), file d'attente (pushup list, wait list), alignement (building line, lineage). (various references)

   

German

  

Warteschlange (pueue, queue, wait list, waiting line), Reihe (array, bank, battery, chain, file, line, number, order, procession, progression, range, rank, row, run, series, set, string, suite, tier, turn), Justierung (adjustment, collimation, justification, setting, weighting), genaue Einstellung (registration), Einstellen (abandon, adjust, aim, appoint, attune, call off, cease, close down, collimate, discontinue, engage, focus, hire, hold, justify, lock on, place, position, put in, set, stall, stop, suspend, take on, to collimate, to engage, to justify, to tune in, tune in, twist). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ρύθμιση (adjusting, adjustment, control, regulation), ευθυγράμμιση επικάλυψης (registration). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sorbaállás (alignment, queue), sorakozó (alignment, assembly, fall in, line up, parade), felállítás (activate, erection, installation, mounting, pitching, set up, setting, setting up, siting), fölállás. (various references)

   

Italian

  

registrazione (adjustment, enrollment, enrolment, enter, entry, record, recording, registration), coda of fila d'attesa, allineamento (alignment, assembly, installation, line up, lineup). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

面通し , 斉列 (array, parade), 勢揃い (array, full force, muster). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せいぞろい (array, full force, muster), せいれつ (array, cool and clear, form a line, parade, stand in a row), めんどおし. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ine-uplay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

seqüência (chain, continuation, flush, order, prose, scale, sequel, sequence, series, track), regulação (regulation, speeding), ordenação (assortment, order, ordination, triage), ordem (appointment, array, behest, bidding, command, commandment, commission, dictate, dictation, disposal, fiat, formation, genus, group, kilter, mandate, order, orderliness, ordinance, precept, prescript, range, regularity, sequence, signal, summons, writ), disposição (accommodation, arrangement, cheer, cue, disposal, disposition, fit, formation, lay, liveliness, mood, order, predisposition, proviso, stomach, temperament, tendency), arrumação (arrangement, collocation, disposal, order, packing, stowage, tidiness), arranjo (accommodation, adjustment, affair, arrangement, collocation, conclusion, conformation, disposition, dressing, formation, make, manage, mending, order, ordination, reconcilement, redaction, refit, refitment, settling, tidiness), alinhamento (line), ajuste (accordance, adaptation, adjustment, agreement, concord, concurrence, covenant, enrollment, enrolment, fit, negotiation, pact, reconcilement, setting, settlement). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

набор (composition, conscription, gang, intake, kit, lineup, repertoire, repertory, selection, set, set occurrence, suite, typesetting, type-setting). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

registro (account book, book, bookmark, county, exam, inspection, marker, record, recording, register, registration, registry, search, searching, stop), ajuste (adjustment, assembly, breaking in, fit, make up, mounting, patch, scaling, setting). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

linjering (registration), uppriktning (boning, registration), justering (adjustment). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hàng (file, order, rank, row), đội hình. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LINE-UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lineup, lupine, unpile.

Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-p-u"

-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.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-p-u"
 

+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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Images: Digital Art
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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