Aligned

Definition: Aligned

Aligned

Adjective

1. (of spatial position) in or brought into line with or into proper relative position; "well-aligned wheels".

2. Brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause.

3. In a straight line; "pearly teeth evenly aligned".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aligned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Synonym: Aligned

Direction

Adjective: directed; Verb: directed towards; pointing towards; Verb: bound for; aligned, with alligned with; direct, straight; undeviating, unswerving; straightforward; North, Northern, Northerly; n.

Crosswords: Aligned

Books

• Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient: The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness (reference)

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Coincidentally aligned spiral galaxies. (NGC 3314). Credit: NASA.

Duplex measures, making the final contact "Contact" meant bringing the two aligned bars together so the ends were touching Fig. No. 7, Appendix No. 3, Report of Superintendent ... 1901, p. 244. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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It was straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, built by the line, aligned by the plummet

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Health

A large number of children with cerebral palsy have strabismus, a condition in which the eyes are not aligned because of differences in the left and right eye muscles. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cambodia

In general newspapers were aligned politically. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Outspoken members of the press continued to receive death threats and physical intimidation from groups aligned with the ruling FPI party. (references)

Venezuela

A group of students, reportedly aligned with the Government, occupied university buildings for over a month in an effort to force the Rector to resign. (references)

Economic History

Angola

From 1975 to 1989, Angola was aligned with the Soviet Union and Cuba. (references)

Democratic Republic of Congo

Flag: Light blue with gold star in center and six smaller gold stars vertically aligned on the left edge. (references)

Austria

The church abstains from political activity; however, lay Catholic organizations are aligned with the conservative People's Party. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

Tamil militants aligned with the former PA government also engaged in torture. (references)

Hong Kong

Human rights activists remain concerned that the legal system may favor those closely aligned with China or with powerful local institutions. (references)

Sri Lanka

Former terrorist Tamil militant groups armed by and aligned with the former PA Government committed extrajudicial killings in the eastern province and in the Vavuniya area in the north. (references)

Political Economy

Iran

The Ansar-e Hezbollah often are aligned with particular members of the leadership. (references)

Lesotho

The army rebels, who were armed, aligned themselves with the opposition protesters. (references)

Sri Lanka

There are two former Tamil terrorist organizations aligned with the former PA Government. (references)

Trade

Argentina

The HS was implemented on January 1, 1992 and is aligned with the WTO Customs Classification Code adopted in 1979. (references)

Philippines

Some aligned standards focus on quality management systems (ISO 9000) and environmental management systems (ISO 14000) that apply to both the manufacturing and services sectors. (references)

Women

Kenya

Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, the nation's best known women's rights and welfare organization, was established as a nonpolitical NGO during the colonial era, but is aligned closely with the ruling party. (references)

Worker Rights

South Africa

The largest trade union federation, COSATU, is aligned formally with the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP). (references)

Paraguay

One of the country's three labor centrals, the Confederation of Paraguayan Workers (CPT), traditionally was aligned closely with the ruling Colorado Party. (references)

France

Unions and labor federations are independent of the Government, and most are not aligned with any political party; however, many of the leaders of the General Confederation of Labor and its unions belong to the Communist Party. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "aligned": aligned around ♦ aligned bundle ♦ aligned partial view ♦ byte aligned ♦ spatially aligned bundle ♦ unilaterally aligned standard. Additional references.

Beginning with "aligned": aligned-grid.

Ending with "aligned": non-aligned, re-aligned.

Containing "aligned": non-aligned countries, non-aligned movement.

Chinese 

�'列 (Align, aligning, ARRAYED, Arraying, Collocate, Collocated, Collocating, Ranged, ranging, ranked). (various references)

Danish

afrettet fiberbundt (aligned bundle, coherent bundle), unilateralt tilpasset standard (unilaterally aligned standard), udsluttet (aligned around, quad around), traadformet indeslutning (aligned inclusion, threadlike inclusions), skyggegitterrør (aligned-grid tube), saalaenge brydningsfronten holdes afrettet, staar alle registre paa nul, uafhaengig af fremdriften (all the counters have a zero reading independently of the advance of the face, as long as the face is properly aligned), rumligt afrettet fiberbundt (spatially aligned bundle), med denne afretningsstyring opnaas samtidig ordning i lige linie saavel af den overdaekkede transportoer som af den forreste raekke af understoettelsesenhederne (alignment controls allow the afc and the front line of the support units to be aligned simultaneously), kohærensbundt (aligned bundle, coherent bundle), i naerheden af skindet befinder der sig en zone med aflange gasblaerer-randblaerer eller kogeblaerer-saa foelger en zone med runde gasblaerer,der er ordnet kransformigt i samme form som blokprofilet-den indre krans af blaerer,-et indre omraade hvori gasbl (near the surface is a zone of elongated blowholes - surface or rimming blowholes - then a zone of round blowholes aligned along an arc homothetic with the profile of the ingot - rim-core junction - and finally an internal zone where the blowholes are gene), feltsymmetrisk (field aligned), ensidigt tilpasset standard (unilaterally aligned standard), det baerbare ionkammer med ratemeter og friluft-ionkammeret blev skiftevis rettet ind i en bred roentgenstraale (the portable ionization chamber rate meter and the free-air ionization chamber were alternately aligned in a broad X-ray beam). (various references)

Dutch

veld-gericht (field aligned), unilateraal in overeenstemming gebrachte norm (unilaterally aligned standard), uitgelijnde bundel (aligned bundle, coherent bundle), ruimtelijk gealigneerde bundel (spatially aligned bundle), rondom uitlijnen (aligned around, quad around), DSA (Daily Subsistence Allowance, diffusion self aligned), diffusion self aligned (diffusion self aligned), de draagbare ionisatiekamer-telsnelheidsmeter en het openluchtionisatievat werden om en om in een brede rontgenbundel gericht (the portable ionization chamber rate meter and the free-air ionization chamber were alternately aligned in a broad X-ray beam), coherente bundel (aligned bundle, coherent bundle), buis met geschaduwde roosters (aligned-grid tube), bij het oppervlak is een zone met langwerpige gasholten-randblazen of kookblazen-daarna volgt een zone met ronde gasblazen die in een homothetisch met het blokprofiel liggende krans gerangschikt zijn-binnenste blazenkrans-en een inwendige zone waarin de g (near the surface is a zone of elongated blowholes - surface or rimming blowholes - then a zone of round blowholes aligned along an arc homothetic with the profile of the ingot - rim-core junction - and finally an internal zone where the blowholes are gene). (various references)

Finnish

yksipuolisesti mukautettu standardi (unilaterally aligned standard), suunnattu kimppu (aligned bundle, coherent bundle), kentän mukaan suunnattu (field aligned). (various references)

French

alignai, alignés, alignée, alignâmes, aligna. (various references)

German

in Linie gebracht, ausfluchten (align, boning, train). (various references)

Greek 

ευθυγραμμισμένοσ. (various references)

Italian

allineato (justified). (various references)

Korean 

동조하�". (various references)

Pig Latin

aligneday.(various references)

Portuguese

alinhado (elegant, even). (various references)

Romanian

aliniat. (various references)

Russian 

выравнивать (align, aligns, aline, equalize, equalizing, even, even out, flatten, flatten out, justify, level, unskew). (various references)

Spanish

alineado (in alignment, lined, true). (various references)

Swedish

anpassat knippe (aligned bundle, coherent bundle), spatialt samordnat fiberknippe (spatially aligned bundle), skuggallerrör (aligned-grid tube), självlinjerad diffusion (diffusion self aligned), koherent knippe (aligned bundle, coherent bundle), blocksats (aligned around, quad around). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "aligned": maligned, misaligned, nonaligned, realigned, unaligned. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Aligned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abigne, abliged, aigned, albignac, Alende, alianed, aligen, aligent, alighed, aligne, Aligue, aloned, asigned, Clignet, darlinged, elined, liganded. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dealing, leading.

-1 letter: alined, angled, dangle, denial, dingle, engild, gained, genial, lading, lagend, ligand, linage, nailed.

-2 letters: agile, ailed, algid, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, deign, dinge, elain, eland, gelid, glade, gland, glean, glide, ideal, ingle, laden, liane, liang, ligan, lined, linga, naled, nidal.

-3 letters: aged, agin, aide, anil, dale, dang, deal, dean, deil.

+1 letter: blindage, dealings, delating, delaying, dragline, finagled, gliadine, ladening, leadings, maligned, medaling, pedaling, pleading, signaled.

+2 letters: alongside, beladying, belauding, blindages, coleading, declaring, declawing, deflating, defleaing, deglazing, deleading, deleaving, deplaning, derailing, desalting, detailing, devaluing, draglines, engrailed, ensilaged, gavelkind, genocidal, girandole, gliadines, heralding, laddering, medalling, pedalling, pleadings, realigned, redialing, reloading, signalled, treadling, unaligned, unleading.

+3 letters: analogized, anglicised, anglicized, bedabbling, bedazzling, begladding, datelining, declaiming, declassing, defaulting, defilading, delegating, delegation, depilating, desolating, enfilading, escalading, gadolinite, galivanted, galvanised, galvanized, gavelkinds, girandoles, gladdening, grainfield, handseling, headlining, highlander, idealising, idealizing, impleading, intaglioed, ladyfinger, languished, laundering, lipreading, longhaired, malingered, misaligned, misdealing, misleading, nonaligned, overlading, pleadingly, redialling, rehandling, repleading, resaddling, ringleader, sanderling, signalised, signalized, slandering, sloganized.