intransitive. To form a rank or ranks; to stand in rank; to take up a position in a rank.

intransitive. With preposition: to move into or occupy a specified position (chiefly figurative); to be part of or ally oneself with a certain…

Originally in military contexts: to get in formation; to take one's place in the ranks. Later also more generally: to form, or take one's place in…

intransitive (a) To present to the eye a line of a specified kind. (b) To form a (good) line with others; to fall into line; also with out, up; figur…

transitive. To bring (ships, soldiers, etc.) into a line or into line with others; to bring (one's boat) into line with that of (another). Hence U.S.…

To touch or reach with the toes; chiefly in to toe a (also the) line (or mark, scratch, crack, trig) (trig, n.2), to stand with the tips of one's…

intransitive. To form a ‘daisy chain’ of people (in a dance, etc.). Also transferred.