Array vs Dispose - What's the difference?
array | dispose | Synonyms |
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
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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.
To eliminate or to get rid of something.
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To distribute and put in place.
*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , act 4, scene III
*:Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
*1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) , chapter 6
*:Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
*1934 , (Rex Stout), edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 47:
*:I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in.
To deal out; to assign to a use.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
To incline.
: (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
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*:At twilight in the summeron the floor.
(lb) To bargain; to make terms.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She had disposed with Caesar.
(lb) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:the knightly forms of combat to dispose
Array is a synonym of dispose.
As verbs the difference between array and dispose
is that array is to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire while dispose is .As a noun array
is clothing and ornamentation.As an adjective dispose is
organized, placed in a certain fashion, arranged.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.
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