Array and Contrast

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

• The opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared.
  • usage: "in contrast to, "by contrast"
  • synonyms: direct contrast
• The act of distinguishing by comparing differences.
• A conceptual separation or distinction.
  • usage: "there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity"
  • synonyms: line, dividing line, demarcation
• The perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors.
• The range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness. )

verb

• Put in opposition to show or emphasize differences.
  • usage: "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"
• To show differences when compared; be different.
  • usage: "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities"
  • synonyms: counterpoint

• (n.) The act of contrasting or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.
• (n.) Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, especially as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.
• (v.i.) To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness or opposition of qualities.
• (v.t.) To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.
• (n.) The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.
• (v.t.) To set in opposition or over against, in order to show the differences between or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.