Array and Course

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

• Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.
  • usage: "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
  • synonyms: course of study, course of instruction, class
• A connected series of events or actions or developments.
  • usage: "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
  • synonyms: line
• General line of orientation.
  • usage: "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
  • synonyms: trend
• A mode of action.
  • usage: "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"
  • synonyms: course of action
• A line or route along which something travels or moves.
  • usage: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
  • synonyms: path, track
• A body of students who are taught together.
  • usage: "early morning classes are always sleepy"
  • synonyms: class, form, grade
• Part of a meal served at one time.
  • usage: "she prepared a three course meal"
• Construction) a layer of masonry. (
  • usage: "a course of bricks"
  • synonyms: row
• Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport.
  • usage: "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"

verb

• Move swiftly through or over.
  • usage: "ships coursing the Atlantic"
• Move along, of liquids.
  • usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
  • synonyms: run, flow, feed
• Hunt with hounds.
  • usage: "He often courses hares"

adverb

• As might be expected.
  • usage: "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"
  • synonyms: naturally, of course

• (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
• (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
• (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
• (n.) The menses.
• (v.t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
• (v.i.) To run as in a race or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
• (n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
• (v.t.) To run, hunt or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
• (v.i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
• (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
• (n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
• (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
• (n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
• (n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
• (v.t.) To run through or over.
• (n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
• (n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
• (n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.