EGAVE

align

About 2.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To form a line; to fall into line.
    The pedestrians aligned in such a way that from above they made a pyramidal pattern.
  2. verb To adjust to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.
  3. verb To organize in a consistent, defined way, perhaps in an abstract sense.
  4. verb To identify (oneself) with, match, or support the behaviour, thoughts, etc. of another person, organization, or country.
  5. verb 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.
  6. verb To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences which have regions of similarity.
  7. verb To identify entities that refer to the same real-world object in different knowledge bases.

Similar words

line up adjust coordinate aline array alignment link combine integrate adjustment

Often followed by

the with themselves itself their himself and it them to

Word family

aligned aligner aligners aligning aligns aline alined alines alining

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