Array and Confront

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.

verb

• Oppose, as in hostility or a competition.
  • usage: "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other"
  • synonyms: face
• Deal with (something unpleasant) head on.
  • usage: "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
  • synonyms: face up, face
• Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize.
  • usage: "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us"
  • synonyms: face, present
• Be face to face with.
  • usage: "The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume"

• (v.t.) To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
• (v.t.) To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.
• (v.t.) To stand facing or in front of; to face; especially to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.