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align is a verb meaning "place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight". It carries 4 recorded senses.
be or come into adjustment with
align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation
“align the wheels of my car”
“ordinate similar parts”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for align come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.