different between garb vs array

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)b/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b

Etymology 1

From Middle French garbe (“graceful outline”) (Modern French galbe), from Italian garbo (“grace, elegance”), perhaps from Germanic (compare Old High German garwi, garawi (“dress, equipment, preparation”) and English gear), ultimately from Frankish *garwijan (“to prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garwijan? (“to prepare”).

Noun

garb (countable and uncountable, plural garbs)

1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up. [from late 16^thc.]
2. A type of dress or clothing. [from early 17^thc.]

   • 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.

3. (figuratively) A guise, external appearance.

Translations

Verb

garb (third-person singular simple present garbs, present participle garbing, simple past and past participle garbed)

1. (transitive) To dress in garb.

Translations

Etymology 2

French gerbe; akin to German Garbe. Doublet of gerbe.

Noun

garb (plural garbs)

1. (heraldry) A wheat sheaf.
2. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
   • 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 118.

     Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.

Translations

Anagrams

• ARGB, brag, grab

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *g?rb?, *g?rba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?arp/

Noun

garb m inan

1. a hump (rounded fleshy mass)
2. a hump (deformity of the human back)

Declension

Related terms

• garbaty
• garbus
• garbi? si?

Further reading

• garb in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• garb in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Middle English arrayen, from Anglo-Norman arraier (compare Old French arraier, areer (“to put in order”)), from Medieval Latin arr?d? (“to put in order, arrange, array”), from *r?dum (“preparation, order”), from Frankish *reida (“preparation, order”) or Gothic ???????????????????????????? (garaiþs, “ready, prepared”), from Proto-Germanic *raidaz, *raidiz (“ready”). Doublet of ready.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???e?/, /?æ.????/ (UK)
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

array (countable and uncountable, plural arrays)

1. Clothing and ornamentation.
2. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
3. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     But the chivalry of France was represented by as gallant an array of nobles and cavaliers as ever fought under the banner of the lilies

4. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.

   drawn up in battle array

   • wedged together in the closest array

5. A large collection.
   • 1814, Lord Byron, The Corsair

     their long array of sapphire and of gold

   We offer a dazzling array of choices.
6. (mathematics) Common name for matrix.
7. (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.
8. (law) 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.
9. (military) A militia.
10. A group of hedgehogs.
11. A microarray.

Usage notes

• (any of various data structures): The exact usage of the term array, 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".

Antonyms

• (orderly series): disarray

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References

See also

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

Verb

array (third-person singular simple present arrays, present participle arraying, simple past and past participle arrayed)

1. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
2. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
3. (law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.

Synonyms

• (to clothe and ornament): don, dress, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe or Thesaurus:decorate

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

From English array.

Noun

array m (plural arrays)

1. (programming) array (any of various data structures)

   Synonym: vetor