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To line up

Line \Line\ (l[imac]n), v. t.

  1. To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.

    He had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety.
    --Dickens.

  2. To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray. [R.] ``Pictures fairest lined.''
    --Shak.

  3. To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.

    This custom of reading or lining, or, as it was frequently called ``deaconing'' the hymn or psalm in the churches, was brought about partly from necessity.
    --N. D. Gould.

  4. To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

    To line bees, to track wild bees to their nest by following their line of flight.

    To line up (Mach.), to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running. See 3d Line, 19.

Usage examples of "to line up".

It was precisely seven o'clock, and if we'd gotten to Stiva's any sooner we would have had to line up outside like fans at a rock concert.

The pimps used to line up at Phil Kronfeld's Broadway store for suits like that, but Kronfeld's was closed and I had no idea where they went these days.

Balls of darkness appeared in the air, obscuring Wulfgar's vision as he tried to line up another throw.

Are they going to line up with the forces of right-wing darkness, i.

He uses a T-square to line up the tops of his socks and he can't level a friggin' stencil.

Many of them knew how to line up in ranks, but the concept of lining up by height wasn't familiar to all of them, and that caused confusion in getting lined up.

The transept aisle was full of milling dons, and Warder was in the choir, trying to line up the choirboys.

But for all that, it also brought those big, bow-mounted bombards around to line up on the Ima Hooker.

The distance was but short, yet I found it over-long, which is not wonderful considering that the people stopped to line up as I went by and to cast upon me a shower of opprobrious derision - for Toulouse was a very faithful and loyal city.