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Align   /əlˈaɪn/   Listen
Align

verb
1.
Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight.  Synonyms: adjust, aline, line up.  "Align the sheets of paper on the table"
2.
Be or come into adjustment with.
3.
Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.  Synonym: array.
4.
Bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation.  Synonyms: coordinate, ordinate.  "Ordinate similar parts"



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"Align" Quotes from Famous Books



... and leaders: there are no political parties but members of Parliament usually align themselves ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... threw forward his rifle; the light of the fire enabled him easily to align the sights on the glittering eyes; the deadly contents belched forth, and a heavy crash told that his aim had ...
— The Golden Dream - Adventures in the Far West • R.M. Ballantyne
... change of moral atmosphere. He had been so completely surprised by Cosmo's accusation, based on facts which he had supposed were known only to himself and the council, that he was unable for a minute to speak at all, and before he could align his faculties his triumphant little ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss
... should it not be rightly aligned, if Bill Todhunter himself aligned it? This he was well disposed to do. He also would align the lower switch, that at the lower X, that it might receive into its willing embrace the engine on ...
— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale


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