line up

VERB
  1. form a queue, form a line, stand in line
    Customers lined up in front of the store
  2. arrange in ranks
    dress troops
  3. take one's position before a kick-off
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. form a line
    The buildings all line up neatly
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How To Use line up In A Sentence

  • What has become the largest event in Camarillo, the Camarillo Art & Jazz Festival welcomes a prestigious line up of well-known musicians and artists that will entertain and delight visitors over the entire weekend period. Camarillo Art & Jazz Festival August 10th – August 12th
  • At the same time, line up the center marks on the template with your center axis mark on the ski.
  • If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
  • Drug addicts, alcoholics, bulimics, anorexics, and sex addicts line up to claim social causes of their problems.
  • My mother would tell me about the school she attended in the bush, and how the children would line up in twos to march into school, chanting their multiplication tables.
  • There is no doubt that a lattice does exist, and mesenchymal cells certainly line up along it.
  • It means an invisible join and allows me to line up all my rows for a really neat finish.
  • One reason megastars may line up to play is the chance to project themselves on a global stage - and thus boost their attractiveness to multinational sponsors.
  • Those Journos not "prioritized" were forced to line up in halls, down stairs, and out in the street to attend the screening of Up in the Air. Erica Abeel: Corporate Culture on Trial in Toronto
  • Given the Bush disaster change sounded great but when specifics begin to take shape all the gored oxes line up to threaten cataclysm. Poll of Polls: President's approval ratings slip
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