Cavalcade vs Array - What's the difference?
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A company of riders.
A parade.
* 1929 , , Chapter IX, Section iii
A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 (by extension) A series, a chain (e.g. of events).
To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion
* 1725 , John Windhus, “A Journey to Mequinez”, in John Pinkerton, The Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels , Volume 15, Longman et al. (1814),
* 1866 , (Elizabeth Charles), The Draytons and the Davenants , M. W. Dodd,
Clothing and ornamentation.
A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
* Prescott
Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
* Gibbon
A large collection.
* Byron
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=October 23
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City
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(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially , a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
(legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(military) A militia.
To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire
To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal
(legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
Cavalcade is a related term of array.
As verbs the difference between cavalcade and array
is that cavalcade is while array is to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.As a noun array is
clothing and ornamentation.cavalcade
English
("cavalcade" on Wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)- In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
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- As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.
Synonyms
* (company of riders) company * (parade) parade, procession * (series) chain, seriesVerb
(cavalcad)page 478:
- Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading , but
pages 348–9:
- although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.
array
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers
- drawn up in battle array
- wedged together in the closest array
- their long array of sapphire and of gold
- We offer a dazzling array of choices.
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Usage notes
* (any of various data structures) The exact usage of the term , and of related terms, generally depends on the programming language. For example, many languages distinguish a fairly low-level "array" construct from a higher-level "list" or "vector" construct. Some languages distinguish between an "array" and a variety of "associative array"; others have only the latter concept, calling it an "array".Derived terms
* * * * *Antonyms
* (orderly series) disarraySee also
* (any of various data structures) ones-based indexing, zero-based indexingVerb
- He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
- (Blackstone)