ARRAYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arrayed mean? 

• ARRAYED (adjective)
  The adjective ARRAYED has 1 sense:

1. in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia

  Familiarity information: ARRAYED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARRAYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In ceremonial attire and paraphernalia

Synonyms:

arrayed; panoplied

Context example:

professors arrayed in robes

Similar:

clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

Using robots thousands of samples can be arrayed on a single chip.

(DNA Microarray Chip, NCI Thesaurus)

The library can be maintained as a pooled population or as an arrayed library.

(cDNA Library Construction, NCI Thesaurus)

They share high-quality, arrayed cDNA libraries and place sequence, map, and expression data on the clones in these arrays into the public domain.

(Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and their Expression Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

A flat dish with multiple individual wells that are arrayed in a standardized number, size, and arrangement.

(Microplate, NCI Thesaurus)

But alas! for plots and plans when love and youth and nature, and above all, fortune are arrayed against them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last, arrayed for the purpose at a vast expense, I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Now there is a recognition of the importance of how the leaf area is arrayed in three dimensions," says study author Robert Fahey, a forest ecologist at UConn.

(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)

Harker groaned and said, "And this is all arrayed against my darling! But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat him!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Using a large panel of micro-arrayed allergens, the researchers analysed IgE reactivity to more than 100 allergen molecules from more than 40 allergen sources.

(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It chanced, however, that the mayor and corporation waited upon him with an address of thanks for his good intentions towards the town, and that the burgesses, having ordered new coats from London for the occasion, were all arrayed in velvet collars, which so preyed upon my uncle’s spirits that he took to his bed, and never showed his face in public again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)