Align
verb
verb ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To form a line; to fall into line. intransitive
"The pedestrians aligned in such a way that from above they made a pyramidal pattern."
- 2 place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight wordnet
- 3 To adjust to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line. transitive
- 4 bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation wordnet
- 5 To organize in a consistent, defined way, perhaps in an abstract sense. transitive
Show 6 more definitions
- 6 align oneself with a group or a way of thinking wordnet
- 7 To identify (oneself) with, match, or support the behaviour, thoughts, etc. of another person, organization, or country. intransitive, reflexive
- 8 be or come into adjustment with wordnet
- 9 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. transitive
- 10 To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences which have regions of similarity. transitive
- 11 To identify entities that refer to the same real-world object in different knowledge bases. transitive
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"I tried to align the pieces of metal perfectly together before soldering them."
Etymology
From Middle English alynen, alinen (“copulate”), from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from a- + lignier, from Latin lineare (“make straight or perpendicular”), from the noun linea (“line”), from līneus (“flaxen; flaxen [thing]”), from līnum (“flax”), likely ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *līnom (compare linen).
Related phrases
More for "align"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.