Array and Clutch

array

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.

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

clutch

The act of grasping.
- usage: "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"
- synonyms: clasp, clench, clutches, grasp, grip, hold
A tense critical situation.
- usage: "he is a good man in the clutch"
A number of birds hatched at the same time.
A collection of things or persons to be handled together.
- synonyms: batch
A woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand.
- synonyms: clutch bag
A pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism.
- usage: "he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other"
- synonyms: clutch pedal
A coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism.
- usage: "this year's model has an improved clutch"

Take hold of; grab.
- usage: "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"
- synonyms: seize, prehend
Hold firmly, usually with one's hands.
- usage: "She clutched my arm when she got scared"
- synonyms: cling to, hold close, hold tight
Affect.
- usage: "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
- synonyms: seize, get hold of

(n.) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
(n.) The hands, claws or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.
(n.) To close tightly; to clinch.
(n.) To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand, hands or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.
(n.) A gripe or clinching with or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.
(v.i.) To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.
(n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird.
(n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary