Array and Type

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

• A subdivision of a particular kind of thing.
  • usage: "what type of sculpture do you prefer"
• A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities. )
  • usage: "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
  • synonyms: character, eccentric, case
• Biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon. (
• Printed characters.
  • usage: "small type is hard to read"
• All of the tokens of the same symbol.
  • usage: "the word `element' contains five different types of character"
• A small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper.
  • usage: "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"

verb

• Write by means of a keyboard with types.
  • usage: "type the acceptance letter, please"
  • synonyms: typewrite
• Identify as belonging to a certain type.
  • usage: "Such people can practically be typed"
  • synonyms: typecast

• (n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
• (n.) Form or character impressed; style; semblance.
• (n.) Such letters or characters, in general or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.
• (n.) The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
• (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.
• (v.t.) To represent by a type, model or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
• (v.t.) To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
• (n.) The original object or class of objects, scene, face or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
• (n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.
• (n.) A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.
• (n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group.

Type is the classification of an option contract as either a put or a call.