arrange

[Ar*rangeĀ·]

Think it might be fun to be a party planner? These highly organized people arrange everything from invitations to music, food, even the lighting in the room, meaning they put everything in order.

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To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding"

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arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one''s life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

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make arrangements for; "Can you arrange a meeting with the President?"

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put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"

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plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

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adapt for performance in a different way; "set this poem to music"

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set (printed matter) into a specific format; "Format this letter so it can be printed out"


v. t.
To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

v. t.
To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.


Arrange

Ar*range" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arranged; p. pr. & vb. n. Arranging .] [OE. arayngen, OF. arengier, F. arranger, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. rengier, rangier, F. ranger. See Range, v. t.] 1. To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.
So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets.
[They] were beginning to arrange their hampers.
A mechanism previously arranged.
2. To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking. Syn. -- Adjust; adapt; range; dispose; classify.

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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Usage Examples

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.

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Other Usage Examples

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

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