align

verb
/əˈlaɪn/UK

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).

  1. derived from *līnom
  2. derived from lineo
  3. derived from alignier
  4. derived from aligner
  5. inherited from alynen

Definitions

  1. To form a line

    To form a line; to fall into line.

    • The pedestrians aligned in such a way that from above they made a pyramidal pattern.
  2. To adjust to a line

    To adjust to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.

  3. To organize in a consistent, defined way, perhaps in an abstract sense.

  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. To identify (oneself) with, match, or support the behaviour, thoughts, etc. of another…

      To identify (oneself) with, match, or support the behaviour, thoughts, etc. of another person, organization, or country.

    2. To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by…

      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.

    3. To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences which have regions of…

      To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences which have regions of similarity.

    4. To identify entities that refer to the same real-world object in different knowledge…

      To identify entities that refer to the same real-world object in different knowledge bases.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at align. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at align. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at align

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA