Array and Understanding

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

understanding

The cognitive condition of someone who understands.
- usage: "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
- synonyms: apprehension, discernment, savvy
The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises.
- usage: "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers"
- synonyms: agreement
An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion.
- usage: "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding"
- synonyms: sympathy
The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination.
- usage: "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
- synonyms: reason, intellect

Know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.
- usage: "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"
- synonyms: understand
Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.
- usage: "Now I see"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is"; "I don't understand the idea"
- synonyms: understand, realize, realise, see
Make sense of a language.
- usage: "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek"
- synonyms: understand, read, interpret, translate
Believe to be the case.
- usage: "I understand you have no previous experience"
- synonyms: understand, infer
Be understanding of.
- usage: "You don't need to explain-I understand"
- synonyms: sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise, understand

Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy.
- usage: "an understanding friend"

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Understand.
(n.) The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
(n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
(n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
(n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
(a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary