Reconcile vs Align - What's the difference?
reconcile | align |
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
To form in line; to fall into line.
To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line.
(computing) 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 adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
As verbs the difference between reconcile and align
is that reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony while align is to form in line; to fall into line.reconcile
English
(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.