line up
number of suspects assembled to be identified by a witness or victim (generally at a police station); form a line
Line up
line up
Verb
1. form a line; "The buildings all line up neatly"
(hypernym) arrange, set up
2. get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
(synonym) get hold, come up, find
(hypernym) get, acquire
3. form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store"
(synonym) queue up, queue
(hypernym) stand, stand up
(entail) wait
(derivation) lineup
4. place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table"
(synonym) align, aline, adjust
(hypernym) reorient
(hyponym) address
5. arrange in ranks; "dress troops"
(synonym) dress
(hypernym) position
line up
adjust correctly First he lined up the two pieces of wood before he nailed them together.
line up
Synonyms and related words:
align, allocate, allot, apportion, arrange, array, bank, bill, book, budget, calendar, collimate, collineate, collocate, compose, cool off, correspond, deal, deal out, deploy, dispose, distribute, docket, equate, equidistance, fall in, fall into line, fall into rank, fix, follow, form, form a line, get in formation, get in line, grade, harmonize, hierarchize, lay out, line, marshal, match, methodize, normalize, order, organize, pacify, parallelize, parcel out, place, place parallel to, program, queue, queue up, quiet, rally, range, rank, realign, regiment, regularize, regulate, routinize, row, schedule, set out, set up, slate, space, standardize, string out, structure, systematize, take rank, tranquilize
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.