aligns
- 1Third-person singular simple present of align.
The company's strategy aligns closely with current market trends.
A careful technician aligns the lenses until the image comes into focus.
Note
One spelling serves every use of align after a singular subject, so the words that follow it tell the meanings apart. With no object it means falling into line or matching: a plan aligns with a goal. With an object it brings things into line. With itself it takes sides: a country aligns itself with an ally and backs that ally's aims.
The party aligns itself with the unions on wage policy.
The compiler aligns each field on a word boundary.
aligns is a form of align
align, verb: To adjust objects so that they range or come into a straight line. Full entry
- Spelling
- align → aligns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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