Meaning

11 senses
  1. (US)A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them.

    Near-synonym: rogues' gallery

    police lineup

  2. A list of trains that are expected to cross over a specified section of track during a specified time period.

  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.

  4. An ordered list.

  5. Collectively, the members of a team.

    The manager fielded his strongest lineup for the game against United.

    Aufstellung, Mannschaftsaufstellung

  6. The batting order.

  7. The order in which race-cars are positioned at the start of a race, based on qualifying times.

  8. The set of product options available from a particular manufacturer or under a particular brand name.

  9. The members of a music group at any one time.

  10. The acts performing at a concert or festival.

  11. The list of programs scheduled to be broadcast by a television station, or a position in that list.

More definitions
  • the schedule of programs for a particular period
  • a line of persons arranged by police for inspection or identification
  • (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Tom was able to identify the man who mugged him in a lineup.

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  2. That team has a strong lineup.

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  3. Could you identify him in a lineup?

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  4. The witness identified the thief in the police lineup.

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  5. There aren't any names in the lineup on the show's website.

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Translations

6 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sports: collectively, the members of a team:

Origin

Deverbal from line up.

Deverbal from line up.

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Forms

plural: lineups
Singularlineup
Plurallineups

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
line of people or vehicles; American:lineA1
line of people or vehicles:queueB1
row of people for identifying a suspect:identity parade
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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