Array and Stretch

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

stretch

A large and unbroken expanse or distance.
- usage: "a stretch of highway"; "a stretch of clear water"
The act of physically reaching or thrusting out.
- synonyms: reach, reaching
A straightaway section of a racetrack.
Exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent.
- synonyms: stretching
Extension to or beyond the ordinary limit.
- usage: "running at full stretch"; "by no stretch of the imagination"; "beyond any stretch of his understanding"
An unbroken period of time during which you do something.
- usage: "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
- synonyms: stint
The capacity for being stretched.
- synonyms: stretchiness, stretchability

Occupy a large, elongated area.
- usage: "The park stretched beneath the train line"
- synonyms: stretch along
Extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body.
- usage: "Stretch your legs"; "Extend your right arm above your head"
- synonyms: extend
Extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length.
- usage: "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna"
- synonyms: unfold, stretch out, extend
Become longer by being stretched and pulled.
- usage: "The fabric stretches"
Make long or longer by pulling and stretching.
- usage: "stretch the fabric"
- synonyms: elongate
Lie down comfortably.
- usage: "To enjoy the picnic, we stretched out on the grass"
- synonyms: stretch out
Pull in opposite directions.
- usage: "During the Inquisition, the torturers would stretch their victims on a rack"
Extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly.
- usage: "Stretch the limits"; "stretch my patience"; "stretch the imagination"
Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.
- usage: "adulterate liquor"
- synonyms: load, adulterate, dilute, debase
Increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance.
- usage: "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend the casserole with a little rice"
- synonyms: extend
Extend one's body or limbs.
- usage: "Let's stretch for a minute-we've been sitting here for over 3 hours"
- synonyms: stretch out

(v.t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
(v.t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
(v.t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
(v.i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
(n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
(v.i.) To extend or spread one's self or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
(v.i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
(n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
(v.t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
(n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched.
(v.i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
(v.t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.
(n.) Act of stretching or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
(v.t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
(v.i.) To be extended or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
(n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary