[syn: dress, line up]
6. take one's position before a kick-off;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
line up
v 1: form a line; "The buildings all line up neatly"
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"
[syn: line up, get hold, come up, find]
3: form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up
in front of the store" [syn: line up, queue up, queue]
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" [syn: align, aline, line up, adjust] [ant:
skew]
5: arrange in ranks; "dress troops" [syn: dress, line up]
6: take one's position before a kick-off
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "line up":
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