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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"  Antonym: skew.
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



... which was at that time still in what may be called the formative state of its existence. This was a period in which for some years the dissolution had been going on of the two old parties which had divided the country. Men were changing sides and were aligning themselves anew according to their views on questions which were every day assuming greater prominence in the minds of all. There was really but one great subject talked about or thought about. It split into opposing sections the whole land over which was lowering the grim, though as yet ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... mankind, it interprets good and evil in class terms. It manifests a special solicitude for the welfare of one social group, and a mute hostility toward another. Labor is its Esau, Capital its Jacob. Let strife arise between workingmen and their employers, and you will see the new social conscience aligning itself with the former, accepting at face value all the claims of labor, reiterating all labor's formulae. The suggestion that judgment should be suspended until the facts at issue are established is repudiated as the prompting of a secret sin. For, to paraphrase a recent utterance of the Survey, ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various


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