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Array and Threads

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.
  • 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"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

noun

  • A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving.
  • Any long object resembling a thin line.
    • usage: "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"
  • The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together.
    • usage: "I couldn't follow his train of thought"; "he lost the thread of his argument"
  • The raised helical rib going around a screw.
  • Informal terms for clothing.

verb

  • To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.
    • usage: "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
  • Pass a thread through.
    • usage: "thread a needle"
  • Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string.
    • usage: "She had her eyebrows threaded"
  • Pass through or into.
    • usage: "thread tape"; "thread film"
  • Thread on or as if on a string.
    • usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"