Collation and Array

collation

(v.t.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
(v.t.) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
(v.t.) The act of conferring or bestowing.
(v.t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
(v.t.) The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
(v.t.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.
(v.t.) A conference.
(v.t.) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
(v.t.) The report of the act made by the proper officers.
(v.i.) To partake of a collation.
(v.t.) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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