Array and Shape

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

shape

Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline. )
- usage: "he could barely make out their shapes"
- synonyms: form, configuration, contour, conformation
The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.
- usage: "geometry is the mathematical science of shape"
- synonyms: form
Alternative names for the body of a human being.
- usage: "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
- synonyms: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
A concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept.
- usage: "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life"
- synonyms: embodiment
The visual appearance of something or someone.
- usage: "the delicate cast of his features"
- synonyms: form, cast
The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape'.
- synonyms: condition
The supreme headquarters that advises NATO on military matters and oversees all aspects of the Allied Command Europe.
- synonyms: Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
A perceptual structure.
- usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
- synonyms: form, pattern

Shape or influence; give direction to.
- usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
- synonyms: determine, mold, influence, regulate
Make something, usually for a specific function.
- usage: "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
- synonyms: form, work, mold, mould, forge
Give shape or form to.
- usage: "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character"
- synonyms: form

(n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
(n.) Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
(n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
(n.) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
(v.i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(n.) To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
(n.) Dress for disguise; guise.
(n.) Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
(n.) That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
(n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
(n.) A model; a pattern; a mold.
(n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(Military) SHAPE stands for Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.