What's the difference between array and embattle?

Array


Definition:

  • (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
  • (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
  • (n.) An imposing series of things.
  • (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
  • (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
  • (n.) The panel itself.
  • (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  • (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
  • (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
  • (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ordering of these filaments into a parallel array is the basis of birefringence in the A region, and loss of birefringence is therefore a measure of decreased order.
  • (2) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
  • (3) For trials in which the target was present in the array, RT functions were roughly symmetric, the shortest RTs being for extreme distractor ratios, and the longest RTs being for arrays in which there were an equal number of each distractor type.
  • (4) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (5) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
  • (6) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
  • (7) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
  • (8) Several characteristics of plasma membrane (caveolae, rectilinear arrays, intramembranous particles) and sarcoplasmic reticulum which show fiber type differences in the adult ALD and PLD muscles are compared in the developmental stages.
  • (9) Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, who heads the advisory board, said that to power the spacecraft, researchers have to work out how to link lasers into one massive array.
  • (10) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.
  • (11) Lens fibres were found to possess a varied array of well defined interlocking processes.
  • (12) The stimuli were presented in a spatial array so that the spatial (left-right) order never corresponded with the temporal (first-last) order.
  • (13) The isolated outer sheath was observed as a triple-layered, closed vesicle carrying a polygonal array by electron microscopy.
  • (14) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (15) Under conditions of chemotaxis with activated serum beneath the filter, the neutrophil population oriented at the filter surface with nuclei located away from the stimulus, centrioles and associated radial array of microtubules beneath the nuclei, and microfilament-rich pseudopods penetrating the filter pores.
  • (16) Nomograms for square planar arrays spanning the range from 3 X 3 cm to 10 X 10 cm were developed.
  • (17) The STM topographical arrays and the molecular dimensions obtained are in good quantitative agreement with the corresponding X-ray crystallographic data.
  • (18) Ultrastructurally, they consist of membranous arrays which often are of the "zebra body" variety.
  • (19) Each sarcomere position is stored in a three-dimensional (3-D) matrix array from which Fraunhofer light diffraction patterns have been calculated using numerical methods based on Fourier transforms.
  • (20) Absorbance changes were monitored with a 124-element photodiode array, while extracellular electrodes monitored activity of the 6 buccal nerves.

Embattle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
  • (v. i.) To be arrayed for battle.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with battlements.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
  • (2) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.
  • (3) For the embattled people of Ali Akbar Dial, a collection of disappearing villages on the southern tip of the island in Bangladesh , the distant trees serve as a bittersweet reminder of what they have lost and a warning of what is come.
  • (4) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
  • (5) The decision by Moody's deals a bruising blow to the embattled chancellor, George Osborne, who has repeatedly nailed his credibility to the AAA rating.
  • (6) The Syrian military, overstretched by the civil war, has not retaliated, and it was not clear whether the embattled Syrian leader would choose to take action this time.
  • (7) His ideas had their biggest trial in 2012 during a three-week series of games, involving over 1,000 players, that fed recommendations about transport and zoning into Detroit’s Future City study , which maps out the next 50 years for the embattled metropolis.
  • (8) The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) made clear that it would stick to an ultimatum it gave Morsi on Monday that urged the embattled president to respond to a wave of mass protests within 48 hours or face an intervention which would in effect subsume his government.
  • (9) In a dilapidated cafe in north Baghdad under a TV set blasting patriotic songs in support of Iraq's embattled prime minister, a young man looked grave.
  • (10) It is also a significant morale boost for the embattled Syrian strongman as well as the Kremlin.
  • (11) Despite leading an overcommitted, often embattled government, he has frequently found time for foreign visits with a defence exports element.
  • (12) Any visitor to his country knows what he means: a place seemingly embattled and paranoid.
  • (13) We should express our solidarity with Russia’s embattled democrats and leftists.
  • (14) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
  • (15) Yemeni officials say the president has resigned under pressure from Shia rebels who seized the capital in September and have confined the embattled leader to his home for the past two days.
  • (16) In a further blow to the embattled financial services giant, credit-rating agency Fitch downgraded the bank Friday.
  • (17) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
  • (18) Tony Abbott on Sunday announced he would instigate a “root and branch” review of the parliamentary entitlements system, following the resignation of embattled speaker Bronwyn Bishop .
  • (19) Retailers reported that the items, priced about 40% lower than usual, quickly sold out as local shoppers put on a display of solidarity with their embattled fishermen.
  • (20) Three of the four leaders at the talks in Minsk – the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, France’s president, François Hollande, and Ukraine’s embattled president, Petro Poroshenko – dashed to the Brussels summit directly from Belarus.

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