Array and Bear

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

• Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
• An investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price.

verb

• Have.
  • usage: "bear a resemblance"; "bear a signature"
• Cause to be born.
  • usage: "My wife had twins yesterday"
  • synonyms: give birth, deliver, birth, have
• Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
  • usage: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
  • synonyms: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
• Move while holding up or supporting.
  • usage: "Bear gifts"; "bear a heavy load"; "bear news"; "bearing orders"
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: turn out
• Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person.
  • usage: "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
  • synonyms: take over, accept, assume
• Contain or hold; have within.
  • usage: "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"
  • synonyms: hold, carry, contain
• Bring in.
  • usage: "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually"
  • synonyms: yield, pay
• Have on one's person.
  • usage: "He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"
  • synonyms: wear
• Behave in a certain manner.
  • usage: "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
  • synonyms: behave, acquit, deport, conduct, comport, carry
• Have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices.
  • usage: "She bears the title of Duchess"; "He held the governorship for almost a decade"
  • synonyms: hold
• Support or hold in a certain manner.
  • usage: "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright"
  • synonyms: hold, carry
• Be pregnant with.
  • usage: "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"
  • synonyms: have a bun in the oven, carry, gestate, expect

• (v.t.) To gain or win.
• (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse or morose person.
• (v.t.) To manage, wield or direct.
• (v.t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
• (v.i.) To have a certain meaning, intent or effect.
• (v.i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
• (v.i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?.
• (v.t.) To behave; to conduct.
• (v.t.) To endeavor to depress the price of or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
• (v.t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury or change.
• (v.t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor.
• (v.i.) To press; -- with on or upon or against.
• (n.) A bier.
• (v.t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
• (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
• (n.) A portable punching machine.
• (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
• (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
• (v.i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
• (v.t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
• (v.t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
• (v.t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
• (n.) Alternative of Bere.
• (v.t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
• (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
• (v.i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
• (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
• (v.t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
• (v.t.) To sustain or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
• (v.t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
• (v.t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
• (v.t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge or name.
• (v.i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
• (v.i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
• (v.t.) To carry on or maintain; to have.

Bear is an investor who believes a stock or the overall market will decline. A bear market is a prolonged period of falling stock prices, usually by 20% or more. Related: bull.