Align vs. Streamline — What's the Difference?

Place or arrange (things) in a straight line

To construct or design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow

Give support to (a person, organization, or cause)

To design with flowing, graceful lines

To arrange in a line or so as to be parallel

To improve the efficiency of, often by simplification

To adjust (parts of a mechanism, for example) to produce a proper relationship or orientation

A line that is parallel to the direction of flow of a fluid at a given instant.

To ally (oneself, for example) with one side of an argument or cause

The path of one particle in a flowing fluid.

To adhere to a prescribed course of action.

A contour of a body constructed so as to offer minimum resistance to a fluid flow.

To move or be adjusted into proper relationship or orientation.

(physics) A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.

(intransitive) To form a line; to fall into line.

(meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.

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

(transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.

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.

To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.

To identify (oneself) with, match, or support the behaviour, thoughts, etc. of another person, organization, or country.

(transitive) To modernise.

(bioinformatics) To organize a linear arrangement of DNA, RNA or protein sequences which have regions of similarity.

Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship; - the current usuage prefers the term streamlined.

To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

To design or modify so as to present the least possible resistance to fluid flow; - used mostly of vehicles, such as automobiles, airplanes, or ships.

To form in line; to fall into line.

To change so as to make more efficient; - used especially of organizations, procedures, or methods.

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

Contour economically or efficiently

Align with; be or come into adjustment

Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking

Bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation;