Array and Rag

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

rag

A small piece of cloth or paper.
- synonyms: shred, tag, tag end, tatter
A week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities.
- synonyms: rag week
Music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano.
- synonyms: ragtime
Newspaper with half-size pages.
- synonyms: tabloid, sheet
A boisterous practical joke (especially by college students. )

Treat cruelly.
- usage: "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
- synonyms: torment, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.
- usage: "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
- synonyms: annoy, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
Play in ragtime.
- usage: "rag that old tune"
Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
- usage: "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
- synonyms: tease, razz, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride
Censure severely or angrily.
- usage: "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- synonyms: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
Break into lumps before sorting.
- usage: "rag ore"

(v.t.) To dance to ragtime music, especially in some manner considered indecorous.
(v.t.) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
(n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
(n.) A ragged edge.
(n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
(n.) A sail or any piece of canvas.
(n.) A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
(v.t.) To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
(v.i.) To become tattered.
(v.t.) To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
(n.) Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
(v.t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary