Array and Regulate

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.

verb

• Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of.
  • usage: "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"
  • synonyms: modulate
• Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.
  • usage: "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
  • synonyms: regularize, regularise, order, govern
• Shape or influence; give direction to.
  • usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
  • synonyms: determine, shape, mold, influence
• Check the emission of (sound. ).
  • synonyms: baffle

• (v.t.) To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
• (v.t.) To adjust or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
• (v.t.) To adjust by rule, method or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.