What is the meaning of line up?

Form a line.
- usage: "The buildings all line up neatly"
Get something or somebody for a specific purpose.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: get hold, come up, find
Form a queue, form a line, stand in line.
- usage: "Customers lined up in front of the store"
- synonyms: queue up, queue
Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight.
- usage: "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table"
- synonyms: align, aline, adjust
Arrange in ranks.
- usage: "dress troops"
- synonyms: dress
Take one's position before a kick-off. .

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