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Throng is a related term of array.


As nouns the difference between throng and array

is that throng is a group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude while array is clothing and ornamentation.

As verbs the difference between throng and array

is that throng is (label) to crowd into a place, especially to fill it while array is to clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.

As an adjective throng

is (scotland|northern england|dialect) filled with persons or objects; crowded.

throng

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  • * Daniel
    • So, with this bold opposer rushes on / This many-headed monster, multitude .
  • * Milton
    • Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, / The lowest of your throng .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng ; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
  • A group of things; a host or swarm.

    • Quotations

    * 1885 — *: Perhaps you suppose this throng *: Can't keep it up all day long?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
  • (label) To congregate.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
  • (label) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  • * Bible, (w) v. 24
    • Much people followed him, and thronged him.

    Related terms

    * thring

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
  • *1882 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, :
  • *:EARTH, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng
  • *:And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal
  • *:To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel;
  • *:That canst but only be, but dost that long—

    • array

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Clothing and ornamentation.
    • (Dryden)
  • A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
  • An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
  • * Prescott
    • a gallant array of nobles and cavaliers
  • Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
    • drawn up in battle array
  • * Gibbon
    • wedged together in the closest array
  • A large collection.
  • * Byron
    • their long array of sapphire and of gold
    We offer a dazzling array of choices.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.}}
  • (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.

    • 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) disarray

    See also

    * (any of various data structures) ones-based indexing, zero-based indexing

    Verb

  • To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire
    • He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
  • 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.
    • (Blackstone)