Array and Sort

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

sort

A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.
- usage: "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there"
- synonyms: kind, form, variety
An approximate definition or example.
- usage: "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
A person of a particular character or nature.
- usage: "what sort of person is he"; "he's a good sort"
An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion.
- usage: "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
- synonyms: sorting

Examine in order to test suitability.
- usage: "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
- synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve
Arrange or order by classes or categories.
- usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
- synonyms: classify, class, assort, sort out, separate

(v.t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.
(v.t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
(n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
(v.t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
(n.) A pair; a set; a suit.
(n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
(v.t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
(v.t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
(n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
(v.i.) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
(n.) Manner; form of being or acting.
(v.i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
(n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
(n.) Chance; lot; destiny.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary