Array and Influence

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 power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.
  • usage: "used her parents' influence to get the job"
• Causing something without any direct or apparent effort.
• A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do.
  • usage: "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"
• The effect of one thing (or person) on another.
  • usage: "the influence of mechanical action"
• One having power to influence another.
  • usage: "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children"

verb

• Have and exert influence or effect.
  • usage: "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"
  • synonyms: act upon, work
• Shape or influence; give direction to.
  • usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
  • synonyms: determine, shape, mold, regulate
• Induce into action by using one's charm.
  • usage: "She charmed him into giving her all his money"
  • synonyms: charm, tempt

• (n.) A flowing in or upon; influx.
• (n.) Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
• (n.) Induction.
• (n.) Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
• (v.t.) To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.