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ARRANGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does arranged mean?
• ARRANGED (adjective)
The adjective ARRANGED has 3 senses:
1. disposed or placed in a particular kind of order
3. deliberately arranged for effect
Familiarity information: ARRANGED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disposed or placed in a particular kind of order
Synonyms:
arranged; ordered
Context example:
comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace
Similar:
laid; set (set down according to a plan)
placed (put in position in relation to other things)
Antonym:
disarranged (having the arrangement disturbed; not in order)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Planned in advance
Context example:
an arranged marriage
Similar:
organized (formed into a structured or coherent whole, particularly on a large scale)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Deliberately arranged for effect
Synonyms:
arranged; staged
Context example:
one of those artfully staged photographs
Similar:
artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)
Context examples
Graphene — a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a lattice — is the strongest material in the world and so thin that it is flexible, the researchers said.
(Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets, National Science Foundation)
They then evaluated several possible models for how its interior might be arranged, finding two possibilities that fit their data.
(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)
'Instead, a small number of nerve cells simply need to be arranged in the right way.'
(Scientists Discover Bees Can Count Using Only Four Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Within the cochlea, thousands of sensory cells known as hair cells are arranged in inner and outer rows.
(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)
The sheriff's office arranged for reinforcements from across Nevada.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
The new moon of November 26 will introduce a very busy period where many phone calls, emails, and quickly arranged meetings will come up.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Can you recall that the tracks were sometimes like that, Watson,—he arranged a number of breadcrumbs in this fashion—: : : : :—and sometimes like this—: . : . : . : .—and occasionally like this—.・.・.・.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The other, who was secured in a similar fashion, was a tall man in the last stage of emaciation, with several strips of sticking-plaster arranged in a grotesque pattern over his face.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Instead of being organized as one large, grid-like network such as in skeletal muscle, the mitochondrial circuits in the heart are arranged in parallel rows that form several smaller subnetworks, the researchers found.
(Researchers discover mitochondrial “circuit breaker” that protects heart from damage, NIH)
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)
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