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ARRANGE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange attractively

Example:

dress my hair for the wedding

Synonyms:

arrange; coif; coiffe; coiffure; do; dress; set

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "arrange" is one way to...):

groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)

Verb group:

curry; dress; groom (give a neat appearance to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrange"):

bob (cut hair in the style of a bob)

wave (set waves in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They arrange their hair

Derivation:

arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

Example:

I put these memories with those of bygone times

Synonyms:

arrange; order; put; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "arrange" is one way to...):

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrange"):

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (arrange or represent events so that they co-occur)

phrase (divide, combine, or mark into phrases)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make arrangements for

Example:

Can you arrange a meeting with the President?

Synonyms:

arrange; fix up

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "arrange" is one way to...):

agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrange"):

firm up (arrange firmly)

concord (arrange by concord or agreement)

settle (dispose of; make a financial settlement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

arrangement (the thing arranged or agreed to)

arranger (a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Put into a proper or systematic order

Example:

arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order

Synonyms:

arrange; set up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "arrange" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrange"):

concord (arrange the words of a text so as to create a concordance)

cascade (arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible)

settle (arrange or fix in the desired order)

pyramid (arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid)

corral (arrange wagons so that they form a corral)

catenate; catenulate (arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores)

decorate; dress (provide with decoration)

array; lay out; range; set out (lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line)

bundle; compact; pack; wad (compress into a wad)

heap; pile; stack (arrange in stacks)

distribute; stagger (to arrange in a systematic order)

drape (arrange in a particular way)

drape (place casually)

set (fix in a border)

gradate (arrange according to grades)

line up (form a line)

regularise; regularize (make regular or more regular)

order (place in a certain order)

order (bring order to or into)

straighten (make straight or straighter)

rearrange (put into a new order or arrangement)

serialise; serialize (arrange serially)

alphabetise; alphabetize (arrange in alphabetical order)

coordinate; organise; organize (bring order and organization to)

stratify (form layers or strata)

draw; string; thread (thread on or as if on a string)

marshal (arrange in logical order)

string (stretch out or arrange like a string)

spread out; string out (set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series)

plume; preen (clean with one's bill)

stack (arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances)

chain (connect or arrange into a chain by linking)

geminate; pair (arrange in pairs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

They arrange the bags on the table

The men arrange the bookshelves

Antonym:

disarrange (destroy the arrangement or order of)

Derivation:

arrangement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)

arranger (a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

Example:

the neighboring tribe staged an invasion

Synonyms:

arrange; stage

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "arrange" is one way to...):

initiate; pioneer (take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrange"):

phase (arrange in phases or stages)

tee up (make detailed arrangements or preparations)

dogfight (arrange for an illegal dogfight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Adapt for performance in a different way

Example:

set this poem to music

Synonyms:

arrange; set

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "arrange" is one way to...):

compose; write (write music)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrange"):

prearrange (arrange beforehand)

put (adapt)

transpose (put (a piece of music) into another key)

table; tabularise; tabularize; tabulate (arrange or enter in tabular form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he arrange his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

arranger (a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Set (printed matter) into a specific format

Example:

Format this letter so it can be printed out

Synonyms:

arrange; format

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "arrange" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrange"):

indent (set in from the margin)

rubricate (furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Instead of being organized as one large, grid-like network such as in skeletal muscle, the mitochondrial circuits in the heart are arranged in parallel rows that form several smaller subnetworks, the researchers found.

(Researchers discover mitochondrial “circuit breaker” that protects heart from damage, NIH)

Within the cochlea, thousands of sensory cells known as hair cells are arranged in inner and outer rows.

(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)

The sheriff's office arranged for reinforcements from across Nevada.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

As they were now set free, Roland said: Now I will go to my father and arrange for the wedding.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Graphene — a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a lattice — is the strongest material in the world and so thin that it is flexible, the researchers said.

(Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets, National Science Foundation)

They then evaluated several possible models for how its interior might be arranged, finding two possibilities that fit their data.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

'Instead, a small number of nerve cells simply need to be arranged in the right way.'

(Scientists Discover Bees Can Count Using Only Four Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I determined not to wake her, but that, when I should return from this new search, I would arrange for her going back to Exeter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We were disposed, notwithstanding Mr. Micawber's stipulation for my aunt's attendance, to arrange that she should stay at home, and be represented by Mr. Dick and me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And further, the police had arranged in two or three places deposits of grub for dog and man, and he was travelling light.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)