English

Proper noun

Aline

1. A female given name borrowed from French.
2. A ghost town in Idaho.
3. A small town in Oklahoma.

Related terms

• Alina

Translations

Anagrams

• alien
• anile
• laine
• linea

French

Proper noun

Aline

1. A female given name, a contraction of Adeline.

Anagrams

• enlia, laine

German

Proper noun

Aline

1. A female given name borrowed from French.

Related terms

• Alina

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from French Aline.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ˈli.ni/

Proper noun

Aline f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Aline

English

Alternative forms

• align

Verb

aline ‎(third-person singular simple present alines, present participle alining, simple past and past participle alined)

1. (intransitive) To form in line; to fall into line.
2. (transitive) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.

   • 1963, US National Bureau of Standards, (Please provide the title of the work) (Science), digitized edition, US Govt. Printing Office, published 2005, page 69:

     Nuclear Orientation. Studies made of the photoneutron cross section in the region of the giant resonance, using an alined holmium target, directly confirmed the theory that this cross section is associated with the two axes of the deformed nucleus.

   • 1975, Royal Society, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Mathematics), Royal Society of London, page 167:

     Field-alined electron intensities were not found in the low-altitude signature of the plasma sheet.

3. (intransitive) To adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

   • 1977, Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa, page 34:

     The first item to be studied is the present status of the technical development of radio and television in the non-alined countries.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aline ‎(“in line”)

Adverb

aline ‎(comparative more aline, superlative most aline)

1. in line

   • 2009 January 26, Michele Wissot, “New Year, New Numbers”, in Huffington Post:

     So instead of looking to the stock market for some quick fix, why not see what the stars have aline?

Derived terms

• alinement

Anagrams

• algin, Langi, alien, anile, laine, linea

Middle English

Etymology

a- +‎ line.

Adverb

aline

1. in (a straight) line

   Drawe a strike euene a lyne fro the pyn vnto the myddel pricke. — Chaucer, c1400

   (Draw a strike even aline from the pin unto the middle prick.)

References

• Middle English Dictionary, aline