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Lineup

Definitions: Lineup

Lineup

Noun

1. (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: Lineup

Synonyms: batting order (n), card (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lineup

Specialty definitions using "lineup": fake reflection. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lineup

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Lineup

DomainTitle

Books

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hercules in America (Superstar Lineup) (reference)

  • Jim Thorpe: 20Th-Century Jock (Superstar Lineup) (reference)

  • Joe Louis: A Champ for All America (Superstar Lineup) (reference)

  • Michael Jordan: A Life Above the Rim (Superstar Lineup) (reference)

  • Most Wanted: A Lineup of Favorite Crime Stories (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Platinum Comedy Series - Cedric the Entertainer - Starting Lineup (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Lineup

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Lineup

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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.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lineup

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

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

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Usage Frequency: Lineup

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)96.3%2668,323
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.7%1339,140
                    Total100.00%27N/A

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

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Expression: Lineup

Expression using "lineup": police lineup. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lineup

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

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Modern Translations: Lineup

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

   

Russian 

  

строй (array, line up, regime, tune), расположение (collocation, disposal, disposition, emplacement, favour, goodwill, liking, order, ranking, regard). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sastav (composition, contexture, line up, makeup, string, structure), postrojavanje (aligning, alignment, line up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rueda de sospechosos, alineación (alignment, alinement). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppställning (alignment, arrangement, array, disposition, formation, list, order, parade), (file, line, queue, rank, row, turn), gruppering (alignment, deploy, deployment, formation, regimentation). (various references)

   

Thai

  

รายชื่อของผู้เล่นตัวจริง. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Lineup

Derivations

Words beginning with "lineup": lineups. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Lineup"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "lineup" (pronounced lī"nu'p)
3-n u' pcleanup, grownup, tuneup.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Lineup

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Lineup


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 6E 65 75 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "lineup"


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