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line up

line up
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [lahyn uhp]
    • /laɪn ʌp/
    • /laɪn ʌp/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [lahyn uhp]
    • /laɪn ʌp/

Definitions of line up words

  • noun line up a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page. 1
  • noun line up Mathematics. a continuous extent of length, straight or curved, without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point. 1
  • noun line up something arranged along a line, especially a straight line; a row or series: a line of trees. 1
  • noun line up a number of persons standing one behind the other and waiting their turns at or for something; queue. 1
  • noun line up something resembling a traced line, as a band of color, a seam, or a furrow: lines of stratification in rock. 1
  • noun line up a furrow or wrinkle on the face, neck, etc.: lines around the eyes. 1

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Origin of line up

First appearance:

before 1000
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English li(g)ne cord, rope, stroke, series, guiding rule, partly < Old French ligne ≪ Latin līnea, noun use of feminine of līneus flaxen (orig. applied to string), equivalent to līn(um) flax (see line2) + -eus -eous, partly continuing Old English līne string, row, series < Latin, as above

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Parts of speech for Line up

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

line up popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

line up usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for line up

noun line up

  • bill — A bill is a written statement of money that you owe for goods or services.
  • cast — The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
  • list — Friedrich [free-drik] /ˈfri drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1789–1846, U.S. political economist and journalist, born in Germany.
  • program — software
  • queue — a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.

verb line up

  • incorporate — to form into a legal corporation.
  • join — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
  • associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
  • relate — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
  • annex — If a country annexes another country or an area of land, it seizes it and takes control of it.

Antonyms for line up

verb line up

  • disjoin — to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.
  • disconnect — SCSI reconnect
  • dissociate — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
  • detach — If you detach one thing from another that it is fixed to, you remove it. If one thing detaches from another, it becomes separated from it.
  • divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.

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