| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To connect, join, associate, bind or attach.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To combine, unite, conjoin or merge.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb ally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (ally) | 1. Become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage.[Wordnet]. 2. To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.[Websters]. 3. To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: allying, allied, allies, allier, alliers, allyingly and alliedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ALLYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ALLYING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Uniting by marriage or treaty.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of ally. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: ally
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Ally McCoist | Alistair (Ally) Murdoch McCoist (born September 24, 1962) is a former professional football player who played as a striker. (references) | ||
| Ally McLeod | Alistair (Ally) Reid McLeod (Glasgow, February 26 1931- February 1 2004) was a Scottish professional football player, but was perhaps better known for his time as a football manager. (references) | ||
| Ally Sheedy | Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962 in New York City), is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the "Brat Pack" films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. (references) | ||
| Ally Sloper | Ally Sloper was a fictional comic book character that has legitimate claim to being the first regular comic character ever. (references) | ||
| Ally Sloper's Half Holiday | Ally Sloper's Half Holiday was a British comic, first published on 3 May 1884. It has a legitimate claim to being the first comic named after and featuring a regular character, Ally Sloper. The "half holiday" referred to in the title was the practice in Victorian Britain of allowing the workers home at lunchtime on a Saturday, a practice which also established the kick off times of football in the United Kingdom. (references) | ||
| Ally with | Unite formally; of interest groups or countries. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Battle of Ally Ghur | The Battle of Ally Gurgh was fought during the Second Marhatta Wars (1803-1805) at Aligarh, India. (references) | ||
| Fern ally | Pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fern ally | Fern ally is a general term covering a somewhat diverse group of vascular plants that are not flowering plants and not true ferns. Like ferns, these plants reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations. There are three or four groups of plants considered to be fern allies. In various classification schemes, these may be grouped as classes or divisions within the plant kingdom. (references) | ||
| Songs From Ally McBeal | Songs from Ally McBeal is an album by Vonda Shepard released in 1998 as a soundtrack for the US television show Ally McBeal. (references) | ||
| Straight ally | Straight ally is a term used in organizing for gay straight equality to refer to straight people who are active, despite a supposedly common view that it has nothing to do with them and provides no short or long term benefits. The term seems to have come in to use so as to allow organizations to include and serve straight people without abandoning their mission statements. (references) | ||
| The Neutral Ally | Norway is at times referred to as "The Neutral Ally". During World War I, while theoretically a neutral country, British pressure and anti-German sentiment in the population enabled the government to highly favour Britain in matters concerning the large Norwegian shipping fleet and vast fish supplies. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: ally
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Major Non-NATO Ally | Military | A country designated in accordance with FAA Sec 517 as a major non-NATO ally for the purposes of the FAA and AECA. Initial designations are Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ally
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| ALLY | English | Automated learning with a logical yoke | Computing | |
| ALLY | French | Apprentissage automatique avec un joug logique | Computing | |
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