ARRANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arrange mean? 

• ARRANGE (verb)
  The verb ARRANGE has 7 senses:

1. put into a proper or systematic order

2. make arrangements for

3. plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

4. set (printed matter) into a specific format

5. arrange attractively

6. adapt for performance in a different way

7. arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

  Familiarity information: ARRANGE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARRANGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they arrange    ... he / she / it arranges   
Past simple: arranged   
Past participle: arranged   
-ing form: arranging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a proper or systematic order

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

arrange; set up

Context example:

arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order

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)

chain (connect or arrange into a chain by linking)

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)

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)

geminate; pair (arrange in pairs)

stratify (form layers or strata)

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 2

Meaning:

Make arrangements for

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

arrange; fix up

Context example:

Can you arrange a meeting with the President?

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 3

Meaning:

Plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

arrange; stage

Context example:

the neighboring tribe staged an invasion

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"):

dogfight (arrange for an illegal dogfight)

phase (arrange in phases or stages)

tee up (make detailed arrangements or preparations)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Set (printed matter) into a specific format

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

arrange; format

Context example:

Format this letter so it can be printed out

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

Sense 5

Meaning:

Arrange attractively

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

dress my hair for the wedding

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"):

wave (set waves in)

bob (cut hair in the style of a bob)

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 6

Meaning:

Adapt for performance in a different way

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

arrange; set

Context example:

set this poem to music

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:

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

arrange; order; put; set up

Context example:

I put these memories with those of bygone times

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"):

phrase (divide, combine, or mark into phrases)

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Martin nodded, and went on arranging the books on a kitchen table which served in the room in place of a wash-stand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you are not invited to an event, arrange to meet several friends who are also temporarily without a special someone for a dinner after work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was arranged as he suggested, though Miss Harrison excused herself from leaving the bedroom, in accordance with Holmes’s suggestion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sends me a thousand at a time, and I grieve to say that I have to arrange for a fresh supply every fortnight.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is characterized by tumor cells with characteristics suggestive of an astrocytic origin (positive for GFAP), arranged perivascularly.

(Astroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The basilar papilla in chickens, like the cochlea in mammals, has hair cells arranged along the length of a basilar membrane according to frequency.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

A duplex of DNA is formed by two complementary chains that are arranged in an anti-parallel manner.

(B-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of a double layer of epithelial cells that are arranged in clefts, surrounded by a cellular, monomorphic spindle cell mesenchymal component.

(Benign Breast Phyllodes Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of fibroblastic spindle cells arranged in a whorled storiform pattern, osteoclast-like giant cells, foam cells, inflammatory cells, hemosiderin deposition and stromal hemorrhage.

(Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma of Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

It is composed of fibrohistiocytic cells, spindle fibrocytic cells, and histiocytes arranged in a storiform pattern.

(Benign Cutaneous Fibrohistiocytic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)