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ALLIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Joined by treaty or agreement
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aligned (brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Related by common characteristics or ancestry
Example:
allied studies
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related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United in a confederacy or league
Synonyms:
allied; confederate; confederative
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Adjectives
Similar:
united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I
Example:
the Allied powers
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Allies (in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War II
Example:
the Allied armies
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Allies (the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ally
Context examples:
My dear sister, said Mary, if you can persuade him into anything of the sort, it will be a fresh matter of delight to me to find myself allied to anybody so clever, and I shall only regret that you have not half a dozen daughters to dispose of.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
My poor Gennaro, in his wild and fiery days, when all the world seemed against him and his mind was driven half mad by the injustices of life, had joined a Neapolitan society, the Red Circle, which was allied to the old Carbonari.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The incumbent is responsible for the overall direction in the conduct of cancer and allied research; provision and coordination of training in cancer-related research and education; operations, staffing, and maintenance of research facilities; development of new research activities; developing and maintaining relationships with other cancer centers in the nation as well as with international scientific community.'
(Director of Cancer Research Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Institutions with an organized medical staff for the medical care, treatment, and cure of the sick and wounded, for the study of disease, and for the training of physicians, nurses, and allied health personnel.
(Clinics and Hospitals, NCI Thesaurus)
ACRO promotes the education and science of radiation oncology to improve oncologic service, to study the socioeconomic aspects of the practice of radiation oncology, and to encourage improved and continuing education in radiation oncology and its allied professional fields.
(American College of Radiation Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)
Those allied powers were considerably astonished, when they arrived within a few minutes of each other, to find an unknown lady of portentous appearance, sitting before the fire, with her bonnet tied over her left arm, stopping her ears with jewellers' cotton.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was promoted to be a major and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
