Array and File

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

• A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together.
  • synonyms: data file
• A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other.
  • synonyms: single file, Indian file
• Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order.
  • synonyms: file cabinet, filing cabinet
• A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal.

verb

• Record in a public office or in a court of law.
  • usage: "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"
  • synonyms: register
• Smooth with a file.
  • usage: "file one's fingernails"
• Proceed in line.
  • usage: "The students filed into the classroom"
• File a formal charge against.
  • usage: "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
  • synonyms: charge, lodge
• Place in a container for keeping records.
  • usage: "File these bills, please"
  • synonyms: file away

• (v.t.) To smooth or polish as with a file.
• (n.) A roll or list.
• (n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep or in two ranks.
• (n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish or rasp, literally or figuratively.
• (v.t.) To set in order; to arrange or lay away, especially as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
• (n.) A shrewd or artful person.
• (n.) An orderly succession; a line; a row.
• (v.t.) To make foul; to defile.
• (v.t.) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
• (n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
• (v.t.) To rub, smooth or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
• (n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
• (v.i.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
• (n.) Course of thought; thread of narration.
• (v.t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
• (n.) The line, wire or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.

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