Array and Bite

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

• A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person.
• A small amount of solid food; a mouthful.
  • usage: "all they had left was a bit of bread"
  • synonyms: morsel, bit
• A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.
  • synonyms: sting, insect bite
• A light informal meal.
  • synonyms: collation, snack
• Angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait. (
  • usage: "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite"
• Wit having a sharp and caustic quality.
  • usage: "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"
  • synonyms: pungency
• A strong odor or taste property.
  • usage: "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine"
  • synonyms: pungency, sharpness, raciness
• The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws.
  • synonyms: chomp
• A portion removed from the whole.
  • usage: "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"

verb

• To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws.
  • usage: "Gunny invariably tried to bite her"
  • synonyms: seize with teeth
• Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.
  • usage: "The sun burned his face"
  • synonyms: sting, burn
• Penetrate or cut, as with a knife.
  • usage: "The fork bit into the surface"
• Deliver a sting to.
  • usage: "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
  • synonyms: sting, prick

• (v.i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
• (v.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
• (v.i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
• (v.t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• (v.i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
• (v.t.) To cause sharp pain or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
• (v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
• (v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• (v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
• (v.t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
• (v.i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
• (v.t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.
• (v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
• (v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
• (v.) A sharper; one who cheats.
• (v.t.) To puncture, abrade or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
• (v.i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?.
• (v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.