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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
array
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bewildering variety/array/range
▪ a bewildering variety of choices
impressive array of
▪ Among the guests was an impressive array of authors and critics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bewildering
▪ In the interim we will be faced with a bewildering array of options.
▪ There appears to be a bewildering array of choices of software and hardware.
▪ The big essential oil suppliers stock a bewildering array of essences.
▪ The entire vehicle was festooned with a bewildering array of kit.
▪ There is a bewildering array of environmental and wildlife holidays to choose from.
▪ Besides, the forms of the incentives themselves come in a bewildering array.
▪ The multiple debtor can face a bewildering array of different creditors using different courts, different procedures and different threats.
broad
▪ Managers were held accountable for a broader array of financial, strategic, and human resource outcomes.
full
▪ The full array of such fractions, comprising a frequency distribution across all cultures sampled, is called an ethnographic curve.
▪ To get the full complex-number array of polarization states, we must consider circular and elliptical polarization.
▪ It was October and autumn was in full array.
▪ Lucas never got the chance to employ the full array of technology in those works.
huge
▪ A miser's body lies cut in a thousand places by a huge array of coins with sharpened edges.
▪ Could this huge array be supplied without straining to breaking-point the thin lifeline?
impressive
▪ Both styles come with an impressive array of features including Gore-Tex lining, Cordura upper and Vibram sole.
▪ They possess an impressive array of scent glands under nervous and endocrine control, the hormones involved being mostly steroids.
▪ It will complete an impressive array of hardware - ready, for the next war.
large
▪ Figure 13.2 shows a single memory core in what would have been a large array.
▪ It is like having a large array of small drawers containing electronic components.
▪ A crystal is just a large orderly array of atoms or molecules in the solid state.
▪ A real songwriter studio, featuring a large array of up to date equipment.
rich
▪ The South Lake is a haven for watersports enthusiasts whilst the North Lake has a rich and varied array of wildlife.
▪ The Louvre received an extraordinarily rich array of material from this region, most of which has never before been loaned.
vast
▪ Because they had so much more energy available to them, cyanobacteria exploded into a vast array of different forms.
▪ An adult has a vast array of comparatively complex schemata that permit a great number of differentiations.
▪ University and college libraries enable the enquiring mind to range freely over a vast array of literature.
▪ In Neolithic art we discover a vast array of bird-woman Goddess statues, pots, and paintings.
▪ The class enemy, the bourgeoisie and its allies, wielded a vast array of ideological weapons designed to mislead the proletariat.
▪ As an Empire player you can choose from a vast array of infantry types.
▪ Its stories, essays, poems and photos come from a vast array of sources.
▪ It brings together for the first time 24 internationally produced and acclaimed animations, displaying a vast array of styles and experimentation.
whole
▪ It was never clear whether there was actually a Fifth or whether the whole array was simply devised in order to confuse Tehran.
▪ The era also gave birth to a whole array of new social problems.
wide
▪ Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.
▪ Now the gluttonous diner has a wide array of eateries from which to choose.
▪ The wide array of central controls has necessarily created tension between central government and local councillors.
▪ Despite historical predictions to the contrary, we remain vulnerable to a wide array of new and resurgent infectious diseases.
▪ There was a lively trade in most of the decorations and the wide array of aeronautica offered.
▪ The book includes a wide array of misguided movie reviews.
▪ But defenses, especially weapons, now offered a wider array of choices.
▪ Mix and match for the widest array of nutrients.
■ VERB
provide
▪ Bourdieu provides a fascinating array of domains divided according to the criteria of taste.
▪ Readers sometimes imagine that the various tanks in our office would provide a fascinating array of exotic fish and equipment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An array of Navajo rugs recently held center stage in the Showcase Gallery.
▪ An adult has a vast array of comparatively complex schemata that permit a great number of differentiations.
▪ Employees shuffle into the training room for a three-to six-hour session featuring an array of information.
▪ It was never clear whether there was actually a Fifth or whether the whole array was simply devised in order to confuse Tehran.
▪ The big essential oil suppliers stock a bewildering array of essences.
▪ The prisoner nodded faintly at the array of somber faces.
▪ They had increasing difficulty in providing even tolerably competent candidates for the array of provincial posts reserved for them.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Nikulin's medals were arrayed on a cushion at the foot of his coffin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Certainly when Johnnie Armstrong arrived for his meeting with the king he was arrayed in the most ostentatious items from his wardrobe.
▪ In front of this already fatigued force were arrayed some of the best-equipped and best-trained troops in the world.
▪ Most languages, when arrayed in order, offer a rhythmic transition series or sensory structure.
▪ She even managed to array the girl in shining armor.
▪ She pushed open the door and saw a small counter before her arrayed with pieces of leather and a variety of lasts.
▪ The princess arrayed herself in her best clothes and jewels.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Array

Array \Ar*ray"\, n. [OE. arai, arrai, OF. arrai, arrei, arroi, order, arrangement, dress, F. arroi; a (L. ad) + OF. rai, rei, roi, order, arrangement, fr. G. or Scand.; cf. Goth. raidjan, garaidjan, to arrange, MHG. gereiten, Icel. rei[eth]i rigging, harness; akin to E. ready. Cf. Ready, Greith, Curry.]

  1. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.

    Wedged together in the closest array.
    --Gibbon.

  2. The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.

    A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers.
    --Prescott.

  3. An imposing series of things.

    Their long array of sapphire and of gold.
    --Byron.

  4. Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
    --Dryden.

  5. (Law)

    1. A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

    2. The panel itself.

    3. The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

      To challenge the array (Law), to except to the whole panel.
      --Cowell.
      --Tomlins.
      --Blount.

      Commission of array (Eng. Hist.), a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war.
      --Blackstone.

Array

Array \Ar*ray"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arrayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Arraying.] [OE. araien, arraien, fr. OE. arraier, arreier, arreer, arroier, fr. arrai. See Array, n.]

  1. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

    By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade.
    --Campbell.

    These doubts will be arrayed before their minds.
    --Farrar.

  2. To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.

    Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen.
    --Gen. xli.?.

    In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed.
    --Trumbull.

  3. (Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
    --Blackstone.

    To array a panel, to set forth in order the men that are impaneled.
    --Cowell.
    --Tomlins.

    Syn: To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
array

early 14c., from stem of Old French areer "to put in order," from Vulgar Latin *ar-redare (source of Italian arredare), from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + Frankish *ræd- "ready" or some cognate Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *raidjan "to place in order" (cognates: Gothic garadis, Old English geræde "ready;" see ready (adj.)). Related: Arrayed; arraying.

array

mid-14c., "order, arrangement," from Anglo-French arrai, Old French aroi, from areer (see array (v.)).

Wiktionary
array

n. 1 Clothing and ornamentation. 2 A collection laid out to be viewed in full. 3 An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. 4 Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle. 5 A large collection. vb. 1 To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire 2 To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal 3 (context legal English) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

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WordNet
array

  1. n. an orderly arrangement; "an array of troops in battle order"

  2. an impressive display; "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"

  3. especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: raiment, regalia]

  4. an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics

  5. v. lay out in a line [syn: range, lay out, set out]

  6. align oneself with a group or a way of thinking [syn: align]

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Wikipedia
ARRAY

ARRAY, also known as ARRAY Now, is an independent distribution company launched by film maker and former publicist Ava DuVernay in 2010 under the name African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement(AFFRM). In 2015 the company rebranded itself as ARRAY.

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Usage examples of "array".

It provides a complete array of services to young people who decide not to abort their babies and instead carry them to term.

Lateral and graviton sensor array readouts, accelerometers, optical gyros, inertia!

He is not acoward for perceiving the true extent of the forces arrayed against us.

He arrays skilfully the facts and reasonings which British inquirers have adduced in favor of Sir Philip Francis, and the other most probable author, Lord George Sackville.

Count Bunker, arrayed in a becoming suit of knickerbockers, and looking as fresh as if he had feasted last night on aerated water, who sat down to consume it.

The fairing for the towed array extended longitudinally aft from the leading edge of the sail to the stern.

The undefeated hosts of Tlapallan, the terrible disciplined array that conquered the irregular scattered tribes of Alata and stole the best lands in a continent!

They saw every one round them sharing the same lot, enduring the same hardships, feeding on the same aliments, arrayed in the same rude garments.

Apparently having lost sight of Madison Sheffield, Amaryllis came down off her toes and turned back to the array of artifacts in the display case.

And right anon he changed his array, And clad him as a poore labourer.

The VicePresident, Head Manager, Vice-Manager, and some Cashiers of the Bank, now ranged themselves on either side of him, and formed an impressive group as they stood, gorgeously arrayed, at the top of the steps leading from the apse to the nave.

I had the breasts of a woman, and very fine ones they were, too: shapely, upthrusting, ivory-skinned, with nicely large, fawn-colored areole around tumescent nipples, the whole array shining with sweat and a trickle meandering down the cleft between.

After five minutes of aggravation they were able to array it smoothly if somewhat askew upon the wall.

I went in with her and was astonished to see a great display of dresses, and in an adjoining closet all the array of the toilette, linen in abundance, and a good stock of shoes and embroidered slippers.

The azimuth array was rocking from right to left like a spectator at a tennis match, while its tall, thin companion, the elevation array, was nodding up and down from earth to sky as its invisible beam searched the heavens.