lineup

noun lineups · line-up

1. US A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them. Near-synonym: rogues' gallery

   Similar: rogues' gallery

2. A list of trains that are expected to cross over a specified section of track during a specified time period. It is recognized that lineup will not contain information as to all train and yard movements within yard limits.
3. Canada A line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end; a queue. We have a simple business process that consists of two steps: people wait in a lineup then fill out an application form.

   Similar: line, queue

4. An ordered list. Look at the lineup of sideways, up and down gaps, spinning top days, all bunched around the two-hundred-day MA.
5. Collectively, the members of a team. The manager fielded his strongest lineup for the game against United.
6. The batting order. More than any other batter in the lineup, he can keep the inning going with a base hit, and over a season he'll have as many at-bats as teh lead-off man and thus hit hard and often for his team.
7. The order in which race-cars are positioned at the start of a race, based on qualifying times. A double-car lineup means the third-fastest car lines up behind the pole sitter and the fourth-fastest behind the car on the outside of the front row, and so on throughout the field.
8. The set of product options available from a particular manufacturer or under a particular brand name. The mid-size Chevelle lineup featured revised frontal styling and one new model, a Concours Estate Wagon that sported wood-grain exterior trim and a black-accented grille.
9. The members of a music group at any one time. After losing half the lineup, the band went on hiatus before reemerging in late 1991 with a new lineup of Goss, bassist Googe and the legendary Ginger Baker of Cream and Blind Faith on drums.
10. The acts performing at a concert or festival. As the festival grew and the lineup featured more daring works, collections exemplified trends in national playwriting rather than the producing director's personal tastes.
11. The list of programs scheduled to be broadcast by a television station, or a position in that list. In the case of Quaker Oats, which brought to us a program called "Bewitched," for which we sold them the time at 9 o'clock Thursday, they selected a minimum lineup of $60,000, because that is the half-hour minimum lineup.

Similar: identity parade