line-up

Police identification parade

A line-up is a group of people or things assembled for a purpose.

Police use line-ups to have witnesses identify suspects: She picked him out of a line-up.

A team's line-up is its roster of players, especially the starting players.

A concert or festival line-up is the list of performers: This year's line-up includes three headliners.

The verb is usually two words: Line up along the wall.

Also spelled lineup.

sports

roster

List of members

substitutes · reserves · formation · starting · players · coach · positions · rotation · selection · second-string

schedule

programming

Writing software instructions

slate · billing · listing · sequence · scheduling · program · calendar · roster · broadcast · primetime

concert

headliner

Top-billed performer

band · stage · performance · venue · billing · opener · act · touring · crowd · tickets

selection

casting

Shaping through liquid form

finalists · contenders · screening · nominees · prospects · talent · recruitment · applicants · draft · pick

identification

suspect

Believe to be likely

perp · detective · eyewitness · identification · criminal · viewing · perpetrator · accused · victim · procedure

queue

waiting

Remaining in expectation

turnstile · patience · delay · checkout · counter · lobby · reception · queueing · service · number

Opposites
order/arrangement

line-updisarray

Lack of order

disorder · chaos · jumble · mess · scatter

formation/dispersal

line-updispersal

Spreading in many directions

scattering · disbandment · breakup · dissolution · dispersion

PARTICIPATION STATUS (sports/performance)

line-upbench

Shared seating surface

reserves · injured list · sidelines · omissions · taxi squad

Family

lineup, lineups

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G