Array and Deck

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

• Any of various platforms built into a vessel.
• Street name for a packet of illegal drugs.
• A pack of 52 playing cards.
  • synonyms: pack of cards, deck of cards
• A porch that resembles the deck on a ship.

verb

• Be beautiful to look at.
  • usage: "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
  • synonyms: adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify
• Decorate.
  • usage: "deck the halls with holly"
  • synonyms: bedight, bedeck
• Knock down with force.
  • usage: "He decked his opponent"
  • synonyms: coldcock, dump, knock down, floor

• (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
• (v.) The roof of a passenger car.
• (v.t.) To cover; to overspread.
• (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
• (v.t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
• (v.) A heap or store.
• (v.t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
• (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
• (n.) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.

Deck refers to the orders held by a floor broker. Often, separate orders are written on individual cards or tickets and the collective amount is a' Deck'.