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ar·ray
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| 1. | to place in proper or desired order; marshal: Napoleon arrayed his troops for battle. |
| 2. | to clothe with garments, esp. of an ornamental kind; dress up; deck out: She arrayed herself in furs and diamonds. |
| 3. | order or arrangement, as of troops drawn up for battle. |
| 4. | military force, esp. a body of troops. |
| 5. | a large and impressive grouping or organization of things: He couldn't dismiss the array of facts. |
| 6. | regular order or arrangement; series: an array of figures. |
| 7. | a large group, number, or quantity of people or things: an impressive array of scholars; an imposing array of books. |
| 8. | attire; dress: in fine array. |
| 9. | an arrangement of interrelated objects or items of equipment for accomplishing a particular task: thousands of solar cells in one vast array. |
| 10. | Mathematics, Statistics.
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| 11. | Computers. a block of related data elements, each of which is usually identified by one or more subscripts. |
| 12. | Radio. antenna array. |
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME arrayen < AF arayer, OF are(y)er < Gmc; cf. OE ārǣdan to prepare, equiv. to ā- a-3 + ræde ready
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ar·ray·er, noun
—Synonyms 1. arrange, range, order, dispose. 2. apparel, dress, attire; ornament, adorn, decorate. 3. disposition. 5. show, exhibit, exhibition. 8. raiment.
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Thesaurus Entries (4 more entries. View all »)
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| Main Entry: | array | |
| Part of Speech: | noun | |
| Synonyms: | battery, crowd, display, gamut, group, horde, host, legion, multitude, number, panoply, rainbow, series, show, spectrum, supply, battalion, troops | |
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| Main Entry: | array | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Synonyms: | adorn, apparel, arrange, assemblage, assemble, attire, bedeck, clad, clothe, deck, drape, dress, equip, furnish, garb, grouping, host, marshal, order, outfit, parade, robe, series, set, show | |
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| Main Entry: | arrange | |
| Part of Speech: | verb | |
| Definition: | To put into a deliberate order. | |
| Synonyms: | deploy, dispose, marshal, order, organize, range, sort, systematize | |
| Source: | Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. | |
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