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verb

Arrange v. t. (past & past part. arranged; pres. part. arranging)

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."

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

Synonyms: Adjust; adapt; range; dispose; classify.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Arrange" Quotes from Famous Books

... up, and hastily began to arrange some bread and flitch in a tin pail, and to pour her own measure of ale into a bottle. Tying on her bonnet, she blew out ...

— Life in the Iron-Mills • Rebecca Harding Davis

... high competition. At Carter tech-prep, a girl is struggling to arrange a Periodic Chart of the Nucleons. At Maxwell, one of his contemporaries will contend that the human spleen acts as an ion-exchange organ to rid the human body of radioactive minerals, and he will someday die trying to prove it. His own classmate Tony Dirk will ...

— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

... regard my service and the good of the country than any other particularity whatever. As to Granvelle, continued Philip, since you will not make any specifications, my intention is to think over the matter longer, in order to arrange it as ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... by the permutation of numbers," was the reply. "You can arrange two numbers in only two ways, but you can arrange three figures in six ways, four in twenty-four ways, five in one hundred and twenty ways, six in seven hundred and twenty, seven in over five thousand ways; ten would give ...

— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... except details. We'll arrange them at once, for you must get off to-morrow as soon as possible after our start. Another man must be appointed in your place, Corporal. At Sidi-bel-Abbes you shall have special work while we are gone. There hasn't been much time for thinking since I got ...

— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

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