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Definitions: Lineup |
LineupNoun1. (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat; "the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate". 2. A line of persons arranged by police for inspection or identification. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: LineupSynonyms: batting order (n), card (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lineup |
| Specialty definitions using "lineup": fake reflection. (references) |
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Lyrics | Arrested, put in the lineup, tryin to put dents in my armor (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Lineup (1958) | |
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![]() | Flown by pilots from the German Air Force's 73rd Fighter Squadron, Soviet built MiG-29 Fulcrums, stationed at Laage Air Base, Germany, lineup with F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 555th Fighter Squadron, Aviano AB, Italy. The two teams are about to engage i. | ![]() | U.S. Quarantine Station, Honolulu, Hawaii. : Lineup of steerage.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | U.S. Quarantine Station, Honolulu, Hawaii. : Lineup of steerage.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Part of lineup of Mexicans waiting for relief commodities San Antonio, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Lineup of school buses near Wells, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The mail must go through. Lineup of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers during the flood at Cairo, Illinois.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Civil Liberties | Jordan | For example, the King appointed new members to the board of the Jordan Radio and Television Corporation (JRTVC) and reportedly instructed the new director to discontinue the traditional practice of placing items about the King first in the evening news lineup. (references) |
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| "Lineup" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Lineup" is used about 27 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) | 96.3% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "lineup": police lineup. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fall lineup | 161 | 2003 fall lineup nbc | 12 |
starting lineup | 84 | concert lineup toronto | 12 |
lineup | 48 | lineup lollapalooza | 12 |
fall lineup primetime | 45 | baseball lineup sheet | 11 |
2003 lineup ozzfest | 38 | lineup tv | 11 |
baseball lineup card | 35 | fall lineup wb | 11 |
lineup ozzfest | 32 | channel lineup | 10 |
league lineup | 30 | cbs fall lineup | 10 |
fall lineup nbc | 28 | 2003 lineup lollapalooza | 9 |
fall lineup tv | 28 | baseball form lineup | 9 |
association auto car lineup national racing stock | 24 | lineup tour warped | 9 |
starting lineup figure | 22 | belmont lineup | 9 |
2003 fall lineup tv | 18 | fall fox lineup | 8 |
2003 fall lineup | 18 | lineup police | 8 |
starting lineup price guide | 16 | 2003 glastonbury lineup | 7 |
baseball lineup | 15 | kenner starting lineup | 7 |
abc fall lineup | 13 | 2003 fall lineup wb | 7 |
lineup card | 13 | softball lineup card | 7 |
belmont lineup stakes | 12 | direct tv channel lineup | 7 |
2003 lineup tour warped | 12 | 2003 abc fall lineup | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "lineup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rreshtim (alignment, array, line up, lining), rresht njerëzish, formacion (formation, forming, line up, stratum, structure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تكوين البرلمان الجديد, تشكيلة الفريق, عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, mount, offer, offering, overture, pageant, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, propound, recital, retrace, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, statement, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width), صف (alignment, bank, classroom, course, cue, delineate, grade, lane, line, queue, range, rank, row, schoolroom, tier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 人员组成. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | seřazení (arrangement, line up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | parade d'identification. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aufstellung (Mannschaft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מערך (alignment, array, conspectus, deal, disposition, formation, layout, order, project), הערכות (forming up, preparing oneself, staging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allineamento (alignment, assembly, installation, line up). (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 up, line-feed, revue dance performed in a line, rhinestone), 布陣 (battle formation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ラインナップ , ふじん (battle formation, female, heartlessness, inhumanity, madam, Mrs, Very sincerely yours, wife, woman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ineuplay строй (array, line up, regime, tune), расположение (collocation, disposal, disposition, emplacement, favour, goodwill, liking, order, ranking, regard). (various references) sastav (composition, contexture, line up, makeup, string, structure), postrojavanje (aligning, alignment, line up). (various references) rueda de sospechosos, alineación (alignment, alinement). (various references) uppställning (alignment, arrangement, array, disposition, formation, list, order, parade), kö (file, line, queue, rank, row, turn), gruppering (alignment, deploy, deployment, formation, regimentation). (various references) รายชื่อของผู้เล่นตัวจริง. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "lineup": lineups. (additional references) | |
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"Lineup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lindum, lineful, Linneaus, Linneus, Linyun. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lineup" (pronounced lī"nu'p) |
| 3 | -n u' p | cleanup, grownup, tuneup. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: 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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 6E 65 75 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. -. . ..- .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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