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lineup en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Canada) audio
  • /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/ (UK, US)

Etymology

Deverbal from line up.

Meanings

  1. (US) A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them.
    • Foster was placed in a three-man lineup for viewing by the only witness (the manager of the office). Foster was about 6 feet tall, whereas the other two men in the lineup were about 5 feet 6 inches tall. 2007, Thomas J. Gardner, Terry M. Anderson, Criminal Evidence: Principles and Cases, page 264:
    • Near-synonym: rogues' gallery
    • Just one more thing, Julian. Don't tell cons they get paid for line-ups. 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Sunday (Hector Elizondo):
    • Before viewing the lineup, each witness should be required to give to the officer in charge of the lineup a written description of the perpetrator of the crime. 1999, John N. Ferdico, Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional, page 498:
    • This innocent suspect is placed in a lineup with five fillers who look similar to that innocent suspect. Given this scenario, one may ask How many people are in the lineup because they fit the description of the perpetrator? 2007, Jack R. Greene, The Encyclopedia of Police Science, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 493:
    • police lineup
  2. A list of trains that are expected to cross over a specified section of track during a specified time period.
    • When it is impossible to obtain a lineup, track cars may proceed, using special care, as the way is seen or known to be clear. 1965, National Railroad Adjustment Board, Awards 11851 to 11915 Third Division, page 509:
    • Except under special or emergency conditions, track cars are not allowed on the main-line tracks until the man in charge has secured a lineup. 1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Hearings, page 85:
    • It is recognized that lineup will not contain information as to all train and yard movements within yard limits. 1958, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Preservation of Competitive Through Rail Routes, page 63:
  3. (Canada) A line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end; a queue.
    • We have a simple business process that consists of two steps: people wait in a lineup then fill out an application form. 2005, Alastair Muir, Lean Six Sigma Statistics, page 285:
    • As soon as I entered, I saw a lineup of about 10 to 15 customers. 2020, Brenda Robinson, Harley Robinson, The Customer Service Your Customers Expect:
    • I've heard that information before and try to remember to do that when there isn't a lineup of customers. When there is a lineup of customers, I don't feel that I have enough time. 2019, Tamara Beth Olsen, Life Lessons from an Ice Cream Shop:
  4. An ordered list.
    • Look at the lineup of sideways, up and down gaps, spinning top days, all bunched around the two-hundred-day MA. 2006, Toni Turner, Short-Term Trading in the New Stock Market, page 261:
    • At the University of Alabama, Robert M. Metzger's group synthesized a molecule that had an internal energetic lineup of orbitals, which varied depending on the polarity of the voltage applied to it. The lineup of orbitals was analogous to the rungs on a ladder. 2002, Understanding Artificial Intelligence:
    • The electronic properties of contacts between two semiconductors or, as they are commonly called, semiconductor heterostructures are determined by the lineup of their band structures across the interface and the existence of space-charge layers. 2013, Winfried Mönch, Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces, page 109:
  5. Collectively, the members of a team.
    • Elton Brand in 1998 missed 15 games because of an injury in the middle of the year but returned to the lineup late in the season, so he is listed as a starter here. The aim here is to list the lineup that was in use near the end of each season […] 2006, John Roth, Ned Hinshaw, The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 369:
    • The manager fielded his strongest lineup for the game against United.
    • Before any game, a team is usually quite interested in its opponent's lineup. 2007, Larry Stockstill, He Teaches My Hands to War, page 133:
    • Rossi's five starts during the 2015 Formula One season were more like a tryout for the Manor Marussia team, in which he replaced Roberto Merhi for a few races in order to help the team decide what its driver lineup would be the next year. 2022, Elizabeth Blackstock, Alanis King, Racing with Rich Energy, page 75:
  6. The batting order.
    • More than any other batter in the lineup, he can keep the inning going with a base hit, and over a season he'll have as many at-bats as teh lead-off man and thus hit hard and often for his team. 1993, Jerry Kindall, Baseball: Play the Winning Way, page 248:
    • For example, as before, the leadoff hitter for the visiting team in the top of the first inning fails to come to bat and the #2 batter in the lineup subsequently becomes the initial batter in the inning. 2015, Andres Wirkmaa, The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook, page 70:
    • That meant Howell moved from a weak-hitting lineup to a great-hitting lineup, and players generally said they hit better if they had better hitters around them. 2022, Paul Aron ·, The Lineup: Ten Books That Changed Baseball, page 96:
  7. (qualifier:car racing) The order in which race-cars are positioned at the start of a race, based on qualifying times.
    • Next, Tuddy gave us the lineup for the next race, which would be as follows: Bud, Puck, Joey, Pepper, me, then Ty. 2021, James Jackson, Blue Ridge: A New Home:
    • The lineup was then set fastest to slowest. 2017, Greg Engle, The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR:
    • A double-car lineup means the third-fastest car lines up behind the pole sitter and the fourth-fastest behind the car on the outside of the front row, and so on throughout the field. 2009, Mark Martin, NASCAR For Dummies®:
  8. The set of product options available from a particular manufacturer or under a particular brand name.
    • The mid-size Chevelle lineup featured revised frontal styling and one new model, a Concours Estate Wagon that sported wood-grain exterior trim and a black-accented grille. 2008, J. “Kelly” Flory, Jr., American Cars, 1960-1972: Every Model, Year by Year, page 486:
    • If you decide that part of your portfolio should be in mutual funds, you can do a lot worse than going with T. Rowe Price's lineup of entirely load-free funds. 2011, Russell Wild, Exchange-Traded Funds For Dummies, page 46:
    • If you look at its whole product lineup—cars, motorcycles, marine engines, lawn mowers , power generators, and so forth —Honda makes about 30 million engines a year worldwide. 2009, James E. Harbour, James V. Higgins, Factory Man, page 100:
    • Let's take another example in this space looking at Dr.^([sic]) Pepper Snapple (DPS), which has a strong lineup of leading brands, including Snapple A&W Root Beer, 7UP, Hawaiian Punch, Sunkist, Country Time Lemonade, and Yoo‐hoo chocolate beverage against Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST), the high‐caffeine energy drink maker. 2012, John L. Person, Mastering the Stock Market, page 82:
    • Starbucks has continuously reshaped its lineup, tweaking its prices and introducing new offers like the Frappuccino, the Pumpkin Spice Latte, and the Oleato. These active adjustments to its lineup allow Starbucks to continue to deliver what customers need at prices they're willing to pay. 2023, Jean-Manuel Izaret, Arnab Sinha, Game Changer, page 193:
  9. The members of a music group at any one time.
    • Throughout their career, Pearl Jam has experienced a number of lineup changes, and the band has had several members come and go over the years. 2023, Zander Pearce, The Journey Of Pearl Jam — From Grunge To Glory:
    • After losing half the lineup, the band went on hiatus before reemerging in late 1991 with a new lineup of Goss, bassist Googe and the legendary Ginger Baker of Cream and Blind Faith on drums. 2013, Pete Crigler, Majorlabelland And Assorted Oddities, page 36:
    • Honing the band's anthemic sound and stance, they relocated to Richmond and created a solid lineup. 2014, Kevin Prested, Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records, page 79:
  10. The acts performing at a concert or festival.
    • Festival talent buyers can take one of several approaches in putting together their lineup. […] [H]e was very concerned about putting together a talent lineup that resonates with music lovers. 2010, Ray D. Waddell, Rich Barnet, Jake Berry, This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring: A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts, Billboard Books, →ISBN, page 121:
    • The annual festival lineup is guided in part by the festival's efforts to maintain a rough 50/50 split between northern and southern performers. 2016, Julia Christensen, “Folk on the Rocks: The Beat that Sustains”, in Frances Abele, Chris Southcott, editor, Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's Northern Social Economy, page 116:
    • As the festival grew and the lineup featured more daring works, collections exemplified trends in national playwriting rather than the producing director's personal tastes. 2008, Jeffrey Ullom, The Humana Festival, page 77:
  11. The list of programs scheduled to be broadcast by a television station, or a position in that list.
    • First, it moved the original Mystery Movie lineup of Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan and Wife to the highly competitive Sunday night schedule and, as a fourth installment to this rotation, added Hec Ramsey, starring Richard Boone as a turn-of-the-century western crime fighter. 2014, Horace Newcomb, Encyclopedia of Television, page 1618:
    • Currently ABC's linkage with parent Disney has paid off on Saturday morning, with a 3-hour lineup of shows from Disney-owned studios. CBS has a Saturday-morning lineup of shows produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment and NBC's programming is produced by QUBO. 2011, Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, Handbook of Children and the Media:
    • In the case of Quaker Oats, which brought to us a program called "Bewitched," for which we sold them the time at 9 o'clock Thursday, they selected a minimum lineup of $60,000, because that is the half-hour minimum lineup. 1966, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business, Activities of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies Relating to Small Business:
    • Joining the long list of returning shows, CBS also revives “CSI” as “CSI: Vegas” with several familiar faces and a few new ones, joining spinoffs “FBI: International” and “NCIS: Hawaii,” in a lineup that again looks as if it gets a discount on abbreviated titles. 2021 September 2, Brian Lowry, “Fall TV preview: Get ready for reboots, revivals and spinoffs – and a few farewells”, in CNN:

Forms

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line-up alternative lexicographic
lineups Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

starting lineup

Synonyms

rogues' gallery · identity parade (row of people for identifying a suspect) · queue (line of people or vehicles) · line (line of people or vehicles; American)

Translations (17)

pt escalação (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · hu felállás (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · pl obsada (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · pl skład (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · pl wspólnicy (queue of people allegedly involved in a crime) · ca formació (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · fr composition (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · fi kokoonpano (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · cs soupiska (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · fr formation (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · sv laguppställning (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · es alineación (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · ar تَشْكِيلَة (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · de Aufstellung (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · de Mannschaftsaufstellung (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · ca composició (sports: collectively, the members of a team) · it formazione (sports: collectively, the members of a team)

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