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Substantiivi

1. A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.
2. One's relatives; kin, kindred, relations; also, relationship through descent or marriage; kinship.
3. Alternative spelling of alley (“a glass marble or taw”).
4. A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBTQ), a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it.
5. People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.
6. A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.
7. Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.
8. (taxonomy) An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family.
9. (figuratively) A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter.
10. (historical or obsolete) A kinsman or kinswoman; a relative.

Verbi

1. To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.
2. Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.
3. (reflexive) To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.
4. (intransitive) Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.