Array and Sample

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 small part of something intended as representative of the whole.
• Items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population.
  • synonyms: sample distribution, sampling
• All or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class.

verb

• Take a sample of.
  • usage: "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"
  • synonyms: try, try out, taste

• (n.) Example; pattern.
• (v.t.) To make or show something similar to; to match.
• (v.t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths.
• (n.) A part of anything presented for inspection or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples.