Array and Sight

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

• An instance of visual perception.
  • usage: "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
• Anything that is seen.
  • usage: "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
• The ability to see; the visual faculty.
  • synonyms: vision, visual sense, visual modality
• A range of mental vision.
  • usage: "in his sight she could do no wrong"
• The range of vision.
  • usage: "out of sight of land"
  • synonyms: ken
• The act of looking or seeing or observing.
  • usage: "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
  • synonyms: view, survey
• Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
  • usage: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  • synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

verb

• Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes.
  • usage: "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
  • synonyms: spy
• Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device. ).

• (v.t.) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
• (v.t.) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
• (v.t.) The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
• (v.t.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
• (v.t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.
• (v.t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center or trunnion of a gun or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.
• (v.t.) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
• (v.t.) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
• (v.t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
• (v.t.) A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
• (v.t.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.
• (v.t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
• (v.i.) To take aim by a sight.
• (v.t.) A great number, quantity or sum; as, a sight of money.
• (v.t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.