ALINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aline mean? 

• ALINE (verb)
  The verb ALINE has 1 sense:

1. place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight

  Familiarity information: ALINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they aline    ... he / she / it alines   
Past simple: alined   
Past participle: alined   
-ing form: alining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

adjust; align; aline; line up

Context example:

align the sheets of paper on the table

Hypernyms (to "aline" is one way to...):

reorient (set or arrange in a new or different determinate position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aline"):

address (adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting)

synchronise; synchronize (cause to indicate the same time or rate)

realign; realine (align anew or better)

true; true up (make level, square, balanced, or concentric)

collimate (adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument))

concenter; concentre; focalise; focalize; focus (bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something