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Aligning   /əlˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Aligning

adjective
1.
Causing to fall into line or into position.  Synonym: positioning.


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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"Aligning" Quotes from Famous Books



... he said, "O my lady, be not false to thine oath, for I see thou art an overmatch for me at this game!" "Agreed," said she and they ranged their men and fell again to playing and pushing on their pawns and catching them up with the queens and aligning and matching them with the castles and solacing them with the onslaught of the knights. Now the "Adornment of Qualities" wore on head a kerchief of blue brocade so she loosed it off and tucking up her sleeve, showed a wrist like a shaft of light and passed her palm over the red ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... a welcome partner, not a rival. For the road to world peace and freedom is still long, and there are burdens which only full partners can share—in supporting the common defense, in expanding world trade, in aligning our balance of payments, in aiding the emergent nations, in concerting political and economic policies, and in welcoming to our common effort other industrialized nations, notably Japan, whose remarkable economic and political development of the 1950's permits it now to play on the world ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various


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