ARRANGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arranging mean? 

• ARRANGING (noun)
  The noun ARRANGING has 1 sense:

1. the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

  Familiarity information: ARRANGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARRANGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

arrangement; arranging; transcription

Hypernyms ("arranging" is a kind of...):

composing; composition (musical creation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arranging"):

rearrangement (changing an arrangement)

instrumentation; orchestration (the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments)

orchestration (an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect)

 Context examples 

I busied myself for an hour or two with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Ah, Colonel!” said Holmes, arranging his rumpled collar.

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

The young woman was again occupied in arranging the cottage, the old man walked before the cottage in the sun for a few minutes, leaning on the arm of the youth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Everything was done at last, even to Amy's arranging different colored soaps to match the different colored rooms, and Beth's setting the table for the first meal.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Traveling out of neighborhood, driving, arranging to take buses.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Travel, NCI Thesaurus)

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC - Traveling out of the neighborhood, driving, or arranging to take public transportation.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Travel, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

“We'll say I don't understand the boy, Clara,” returned Miss Murdstone, arranging the little fetters on her wrists.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am busy, I need not tell you, arranging things and housekeeping.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My darling made use of the few clear days which our start had given us in arranging for a refuge for me in such a fashion that no possible danger could reach me.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The whole knack lies in pointing your chin to the sky, and then arranging your folds by the gradual descent of your lower jaw.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)