Array and Crowd

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

crowd

A large number of things or people considered together.
- usage: "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
An informal body of friends.
- usage: "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
- synonyms: crew, gang, bunch

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together.
- usage: "We herded the children into a spare classroom"
- synonyms: herd
Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing.
- usage: "The students crowded the auditorium"
To gather together in large numbers.
- usage: "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
- synonyms: crowd together
Approach a certain age or speed.
- usage: "She is pushing fifty"
- synonyms: push

(v.t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
(v.t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
(v.t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
(v.i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
(v.t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(v.t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(v.i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
(v.t.) To push, to press, to shove.
(v.t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
(v.t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
(n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary