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- 1 Clothing and ornamentation; raiment. countable, uncountable
"Sovay, Sovay all on a day, She dressed herself in man's array, With a sword and a pistol all by her side, To meet her true love to meet her true love away did ride."
- 2 an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics wordnet
- 3 A collection laid out to be viewed in full. countable, uncountable
"The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!"
- 4 especially fine or decorative clothing wordnet
- 5 An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. countable, uncountable
"But the chivalry of France was represented by as gallant an array of nobles and cavaliers as ever fought under the banner of the lilies"
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- 6 an impressive display wordnet
- 7 Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle. countable, uncountable
"drawn up in battle array"
- 8 an orderly arrangement wordnet
- 9 A large collection. countable, uncountable
"We offer a dazzling array of choices."
- 10 A matrix. countable, uncountable
- 11 Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices. countable, uncountable
- 12 A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court. countable, uncountable
- 13 A militia. countable, uncountable
- 14 A group of hedgehogs. countable, uncountable
- 15 A microarray. countable, uncountable
- 1 To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
"He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels."
- 2 align oneself with a group or a way of thinking wordnet
- 3 To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
"It is a noble ambition, and the forces arrayed against it are mighty."
- 4 lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line wordnet
- 5 To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
"Alſo, though there be no perſonal objection againſt the ſheriff, yet if he arrays the panel at the nomination, or under the direction of either party, this is good cauſe of challenge to the array."
Etymology
From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Vulgar Latin *arrēdō (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *rēdum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *raid or *raidā (“preparation, order”) or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Compare Old English rād (“condition, stipulation”), Old High German antreitī (“order, rank”). Doublet of ready.
From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Vulgar Latin *arrēdō (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *rēdum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *raid or *raidā (“preparation, order”) or Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Compare Old English rād (“condition, stipulation”), Old High German antreitī (“order, rank”). Doublet of ready.
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