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UK
/ɐɹˈeɪ/
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[ US /ɝˈeɪ/ ]
[ US /ɝˈeɪ/ ]
NOUN
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an impressive display
it was a bewildering array of books
his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall - an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics
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an orderly arrangement
an array of troops in battle order - especially fine or decorative clothing
VERB
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lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
lay out the arguments
lay out the clothes - align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
How To Use array In A Sentence
- Figure 13.2 shows a single memory core in what would have been a large array.
- They sat before an array of microphones and cameras.
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- Our plans were thrown into disarray by her arrival.
- When equipped with the full unit, a patient sees a display of phosphenes, which looks, as the Wall Street Journal put it, like ‘the light-bulb array of a stadium scoreboard,’ and which approximates - very roughly - the outlines of objects.
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- He has left behind a secure home, a loving family and a glittering array of school prizes. Times, Sunday Times
- He's comfortable like this, lying against an array of chenille pillows while the woman in his arms nestles against him.
- Before the swearing of any of the jurors, 15 the defendant or prosecutor in England and Ireland could challenge the array of jurors compiled by the sheriff.
- The two users could be communicating with the adaptive array at the same time and on the same frequency channel, but their signals would not interfere with each other.