align

verb

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. 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 range or form in line; to bring into line.
3. To organize in a consistent, defined way, perhaps in an abstract sense.
4. To identify (oneself) with, match, or support the behaviour, thoughts, etc. of another person, organization, or country.
5. 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.
6. To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences which have regions of similarity.
7. To identify entities that refer to the same real-world object in different knowledge bases.