Array and Accommodation

noun

• An orderly arrangement.
  • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
• An impressive display.
  • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
• Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • synonyms: raiment, regalia
• An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: range, lay out, set out
• Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • synonyms: align

• (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
• (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
• (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
• (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
• (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
• (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
• (n.) An imposing series of things.
• (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
• (n.) The panel itself.

noun

• Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances.
  • synonyms: adjustment, fitting
• A settlement of differences.
  • usage: "they reached an accommodation with Japan"
• In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality.
• Living quarters provided for public convenience.
  • usage: "overnight accommodations are available"
• The act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need.
• Physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye. (.

• (n.) The act of fitting or adapting or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
• (n.) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
• (n.) Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.
• (n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
• (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
• (n.) A loan of money.
• (n.) An accommodation bill or note.

accommodation is the lending of one person's good name or credit standing to a second person with no compensation in order that the second person may borrow money from a third person. Historically, accommodation meant the making of a loan by one person to a second person who lacks sufficient collateral but has the backing of a third person.