Array and Style

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

• How something is done or how it happens.
  • usage: "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
  • synonyms: manner, mode, way, fashion
• A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period.
  • usage: "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
  • synonyms: expressive style
• A particular kind (as to appearance. )
  • usage: "this style of shoe is in demand"
• The popular taste at a given time.
  • usage: "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"
  • synonyms: vogue, trend
• Botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma. (
• Editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display.
• Distinctive and stylish elegance.
  • usage: "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
  • synonyms: dash, elan, flair, panache
• A pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving.
  • usage: "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"
  • synonyms: stylus
• A slender bristlelike or tubular process.
  • usage: "a cartilaginous style"

verb

• Designate by an identifying term.
  • usage: "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"
  • synonyms: title
• Make consistent with a certain fashion or style.
  • usage: "Style my hair"; "style the dress"
• Make consistent with certain rules of style.
  • usage: "style a manuscript"

• (v.t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
• (v.t.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
• (v.t.) Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
• (v.t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
• (v.t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
• (v.t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
• (v.t.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
• (v.t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
• (v.t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
• (v.t.) To entitle; to term, name or call; to denominate.
• (v.t.) A pen; an author's pen.
• (v.t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
• (v.t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
• (v.t.) The pin or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.