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Array and Camp

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.
  • 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"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

noun

  • Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers.
    • usage: "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
  • A group of people living together in a camp.
    • usage: "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
  • Temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers.
    • usage: "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
  • An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.
  • A penal institution (often for forced labor. )
    • usage: "China has many camps for political prisoners"
  • Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality.
    • usage: "the living room was pure camp"
  • Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs.
  • A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months.
    • usage: "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp"

verb

  • Live in or as if in a tent.
    • usage: "Can we go camping again this summer"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
  • Establish or set up a camp.
  • Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to.

adjective

  • Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
    • usage: "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
Camp is a masculine given name