Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

     #60. [Reduction to Order.] Arrangement. —­ N. arrangement; plan &c.
626; preparation &c. 673; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation; distribution; sorting &c. v.; assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis[obs3], graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation.
     analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion.
     [Result of arrangement] digest; synopsis &c. (compendium) 596;
syntagma[Gram], table, atlas; file, database; register &c. (record) 551; organism, architecture.
     [Instrument for sorting] sieve, riddle, screen, sorter. 
     V. reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally.
arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.
     class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register &c.
(record) 551; catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade.
     methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix.
unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil[obs3]; feaze[obs3]. 
     Adj. arranged &c. v.; embattled, in battle array; cut and dried;
methodical, orderly, regular, systematic. 
     Phr.  “In vast cumbrous array” [Churchill].

     #61. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement. —­ N.
derangement &c. v.; disorder &c. 59; evection[obs3], discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization[obs3]; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shuffling &c. v.; inversion &c. 218; corrugation &c. (fold) 258; involvement.
     interchange &c. 148. 
     V. derange; disarrange, misarrange[obs3]; displace, misplace; mislay,
discompose, disorder; deorganize[obs3], discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder &c. 59; muss [U.S.]; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.
     unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear.
     turn topsy-turvy &c. (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve,
perplex, confound; imbrangle[obs3], embrangle[obs3], tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle[obs3], dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c. (fold) 258.
     litter, scatter; mix &c. 41.
     rearrange &c. 148. 
     Adj. deranged &c. v.; syncretic, syncretistic[obs3]; mussy, messy;
flaky; random, unordered [U.S.].

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