Array vs Trim - What's the difference?
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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 reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'. The adposition of can be used in present perfect tense to designate the removed part.
To decorate or adorn; especially, to decorate a Christmas tree.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
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, chapter=1 (nautical) To modify the angle of a vessel to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause a vessel to assume, a certain position, or trim, in the water. (FM 55-501).
* 1883 ,
(nautical) To modify the angle of a vessel's sails relative to the wind, especially to set the sails to the most advantageous angle.
(dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
* Goldsmith
(carpentry) To dress (timber); to make smooth.
(dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
(uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
(countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
Dress; gear; ornaments.
* Sir Walter Scott
(countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
Sexual intercourse.
(nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
(nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
Physically fit.
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Slender, lean.
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Neat or smart in appearance.
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*:manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
(nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
(nautical) With sails well trimmed.
Array is a related term of trim.
As nouns the difference between array and trim
is that array is clothing and ornamentation while trim is (uncountable) decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.As verbs the difference between array and trim
is that array is to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire while trim is to reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; eg 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard' the adposition of can be used in present perfect tense to designate the removed part.As an adjective trim is
physically fit.As an adverb trim is
(nautical) in good order, properly managed or maintained.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)
trim
English
(wikipedia trim)Verb
- (present perfect example)
- A rotten building newly trimmed over.
- I was trimmed in Julia's gown.
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- The captain made us trim the boat, and we got her to lie a little more evenly.
- The hermit trimmed his little fire.
Noun
(en noun)- Paint the house white with blue trim .
- I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.
- seeing him just pass the window in his woodland trim
- The car comes in three different trims .
- to be in good trim
- (Chapman)