Array and Provide

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

provide

Give something useful or necessary to.
- usage: "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
- synonyms: supply, render, furnish
Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.
- usage: "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
- synonyms: supply, ply, cater
Determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation.
- usage: "The will provides that each child should receive half of the money"; "The Constitution provides for the right to free speech"
Mount or put up.
- usage: "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"
- synonyms: put up, offer
Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.
- usage: "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
- synonyms: leave, allow for, allow
Supply means of subsistence; earn a living.
- usage: "He provides for his large family by working three jobs"; "Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon"
- synonyms: bring home the bacon
Take measures in preparation for.
- usage: "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"

(v.t.) To supply; to afford; to contribute.
(v.t.) To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
(v.t.) To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect or make ready for future use; to prepare.
(v.t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
(v.i.) To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
(v.t.) To foresee.
(v.t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
(v.i.) To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary