Lineup

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]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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