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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
align
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ More than 50 seats were won by independents, many of whom are closely aligned with Mr Khatami's conservative foes.
▪ Deng closely aligned himself with this stance.
▪ Again, this is where sculpture is closely aligned to social and political history.
▪ Love and pity are closely aligned, didn't you know?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All adjoining panels should be pressed evenly together ensuring all the panels are aligned squarely to each other.
▪ More than 50 seats were won by independents, many of whom are closely aligned with Mr Khatami's conservative foes.
▪ Overhead the beautiful stars flickered and aligned themselves into patterns.
▪ When I get the two magnets properly aligned on either side of the pad, see how they move in unison?
▪ When lava solidifies, its tiny ferrous particles align themselves, like magnetic needles, with the earth's magnetic field.
▪ You want to see how defenses align against your particular formation and see how they respond to a particular play.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Align

Align \A*lign"\, v. t. [F. aligner; [`a] (L. ad) + ligne (L. linea) line. See Line, and cf. Allineate.] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

Align

Align \A*lign"\, v. t. To form in line; to fall into line.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
align

early 15c., "to copulate" (of wolves, dogs), literally "to range (things) in a line," from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier "set, lay in line," from à "to" (see ad-) + lignier "to line," from Latin lineare, from linea (see line (n.)). Transitive or reflexive sense of "to fall into line" is from 1853. International political sense is attested from 1934. No justification for the French spelling, and aline was an early native form. Related: Aligned; aligning.

Wiktionary
align

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To form in line; to fall into line. 2 (context transitive English) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line. 3 (context transitive computing English) To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size. 4 (context intransitive English) To adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

WordNet
align

  1. v. place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table" [syn: aline, line up, adjust] [ant: skew]

  2. align with; be or come into adjustment

  3. align oneself with a group or a way of thinking [syn: array]

  4. bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car"; "ordinate similar parts" [syn: ordinate, coordinate]

Wikipedia
Align

Align may refer to:

  • Align (album), an album released by the band Halifax
  • The process of alignment (disambiguation)
  • Align (company)
  • align and align*, environments that use the [[AMS-LaTeX|amsmath]] package used for arranging equations of multiple lines in LaTeX where \\ specifies a line break and & is used to indicate where the lines should be aligned (further information in the LaTeX book on Wikibooks)
Align (company)

Align is a privately held IT solutions company specializing in IT relocation services, network infrastructure design and build-out, contact center technology, and IT management. The company also provides communications products and integration services for call centers and other facilities requiring large-scale computer telephony installations. Align operates from offices in New York, London, Chicago, Princeton, New Jersey, and Toronto. The company serves customers in such industries as finance, health care, and energy. Clients have included BlackRock, BP, and Dun & Bradstreet.

Usage examples of "align".

In examining the first attention, the new seers realized that all organic beings, except man, quiet down their agitated trapped emanations so that those emanations can align themselves with their matching ones outside.

Awareness gives rise to perception, which happens when the emanations inside our cocoons align themselves with the corresponding emanations at large.

You must move your assemblage point, unaided by anyone, and align another great band of emanations.

When the assemblage point is moving away from its customary position and reaches a certain depth, it breaks a barrier that momentarily disrupts its capacity to align emanations.

When all hands were accounted for, Drake ordered the ship turned to align the photon drive with the direction of flight.

Mark commanded the map to rotate in model space to align the viewpoint with his own current position.

He discovered that he could align himself between two pipes and pull himself hand over hand with relative ease.

There was no unifying principle to align them in space as the magnetic domains align in a piece of lodestone.

Costas had been using the digital navigational display to align the DSRV with its objective.

If the assemblage point aligns emanations inside the cocoon in a position different from its normal one, the human senses perceive in inconceivable ways.

These bundles then become aligned, as bundles, with the emanations at large.

In such an arrangement, bubbles that are close to the edges of the band miss altogether the emanations that are in the center of the band, which are shared only by bubbles that are aligned with the center.

When the glow of awareness touches them, they become active and can be aligned with the corresponding emanations at large.

Since the foldlines were aligned with the spiral arm that contains Sol, humanity found it easiest to expand along the axis of the arm.

The inner compartments were aligned with those along the edge, but instead contained linear signs.