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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: LINE-UP |
| English words defined with "LINE-UP": start. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LINE-UP": LINE-UP EXAMINER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & 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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| "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. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.79% | 477 | 12,448 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.21% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 478 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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