What does lineup mean?we found 4 entries for the meaning of lineup
 

Line-up \Line"-up`\, Lineup \Line"up`\ (l[imac]n"[u^]p), n.

1. The members of a team who are scheduled to play a game. [PJC]

2. Specifically: The formation of football players before the start or a restart of play. [PJC]

3. Specifically: (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat. [WordNet sense 1]

Syn: batting order, card, lineup. [WordNet 1.5]

4. Hence: any arrangement of persons (rarely, of things), esp. when having a common purpose or sentiment; as, the line-up at a ticket-office window; the line-up of political factions. [Colloq.]

[PJC]

5. A group of persons including a suspect in a police investigation, arranged so as to be observed by a witness, who is requested to identify the perpetrator, if he/she is present in the group. Such an identification may be used as evidence of guilt of the suspect. Also called a police lineup. [WordNet sense 2] [PJC]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

116 Moby Thesaurus words for "lineup": agenda, approach, arrangement, array, attack, batting order, beadroll, bill, bill of fare, blueprint, blueprinting, budget, cadastre, calculation, calendar, card, carte du jour, census, census report, charting, checklist, checkroll, conception, concord, contrivance, deployment, design, device, disposal, disposition, docket, dramatis personae, enterprise, envisagement, figuring, foresight, forethought, formation, game, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmony, head count, honor roll, idea, intention, jury list, jury panel, layout, list of agenda, long-range plan, mapping, marshaling, master plan, menu, method, methodology, muster, muster roll, nose count, operations research, order, order of business, organization, peace, plan, planning, planning function, playbill, poll, prearrangement, procedure, program, program of action, program of operation, programma, property roll, proportion, prospectus, protocol, questionnaire, quiet, quietude, rationalization, regularity, returns, roll, roll call, roster, rota, routine, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scroll, setup, slate, strategic plan, strategy, structure, symmetry, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, tax roll, the big picture, the picture, tranquillity, uniformity, way, working plan

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

 

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" [syn: batting order, card]
2: a line of persons arranged by police for inspection or identification

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

 

Line-up \Line"-up`\, Lineup \Line"up`\, n. The formation of football players before the start or a restart of play; hence (Colloq.), any arrangement of persons (rarely, of things), esp. when having a common purpose or sentiment; as, the line-up at a ticket-office window; the line-up of political factions.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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