Garbed vs Arrayed - What's the difference?
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(garb)
Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
A type of dress or clothing.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
(lb) A guise, external appearance.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.
(heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.
A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
* 1957 , H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , page 118.
(array)
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
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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.
Garbed is a related term of arrayed.
As verbs the difference between garbed and arrayed
is that garbed is (garb) while arrayed is (array).garbed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *garb
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
(etyl) gerbe; akin to German GarbeNoun
(en noun)- Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''
Anagrams
* * ----arrayed
English
Verb
(head)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)
