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1. Causing to fall into line or into position
   "The aligning images look crisper in the advertisement"
   - positioning

1. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
   "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table"
   - aline [non-standard], line up, adjust
    
2. Be or come into adjustment with
    
3. Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
   - array
    
4. Bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination
   "align the wheels of my car"
   - ordinate, coordinate

See also: alignment, orientating, orienting

Type of: adjust, agree, check, correct, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, marry, marry up, match, reorient, set, stand, tally

Antonym: skew

Encyclopedia: Align