Array and Party

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

party

An organization to gain political power.
- usage: "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level"
- synonyms: political party
A group of people gathered together for pleasure.
- usage: "she joined the party after dinner"
A band of people associated temporarily in some activity.
- usage: "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen"
- synonyms: company
An occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment.
- usage: "he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day"
A person involved in legal proceedings.
- usage: "the party of the first part"

Have or participate in a party.
- usage: "The students were partying all night before the exam"

(v.) One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
(v.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
(v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm or corporation; a litigant.
(v.) A person; as, he is a queer party.
(v.) A part or portion.
(v.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; especially, one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
(v.) Partial; favoring one party.
(v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
(adv.) Partly.
(v.) Cause; side; interest.
(v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
(v.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary