different between situate vs array

English

Alternative forms

• scituate (hyper?correct, obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin situ?tus, past participle of Medieval Latin situ? (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /?s?t?u.e?t/, /?s?tju.e?t/
• (adjective) IPA^(key): /?s?t?u.?t/, /?s?tju.?t/
• Hyphenation: sit?u?ate

Verb

situate (third-person singular simple present situates, present participle situating, simple past and past participle situated)

1. (transitive) To place on or into a physical location.

   The statue is situated in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area situated behind the building.

2. (transitive) To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.

   The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.

Related terms

• site
• situation

Translations

Adjective

situate (comparative more situate, superlative most situate)

1. (now rare) Situated.
   • , II.ii.3:

     Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     Pleasure situate in hill and dale.

   • 1938, letter from South African Secretary for Native Affairs to N L Henwood[1]:

     […] the farm Kafferskraal No. 62 is not situate within a released area and its acquisition by the South African Native Trust is consequently not contemplated.

2. (heraldry) Situated; located.

Further reading

• situate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• situate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• situate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• usitate

Italian

Adjective

situate

1. feminine plural of situato

Verb

situate

1. second-person plural present indicative of situare
2. second-person plural imperative of situare
3. feminine plural of situato

Anagrams

• autiste, usitate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /si.tu?a?.te/, [s??t?u?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /si.tu?a.te/, [sit?u???t??]

Verb

situ?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of situ?

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

Hyponyms

Related terms

Translations

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