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/ərˈeɪndʒɪŋ/ Listen

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.

noun

arranging n. The act of arranging a piece of music.

Synonyms: arrangement.

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Etymology of 'Arranging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Arranging" Quotes from Famous Books

... conception of Jesus as her guide and shield, was a mental image, inevitable with her, as Jesus was the motive power of her every thought and act. And although at the moment of her Illumination, she realized the "bigness" of God, later, in arranging and recording the phenomenon, in her mental note-book, she tabulated it with all she knew of God—the religious enthusiasm of her work of conversion ...

— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad

... the Apennines had been denuded of forest, than they had been before.[53] The disheartening contradictoriness of his observations on this subject led Herr Rivoli to the following ingenious and satisfactory comparison.[54] Arranging his results according to the wind that blew on the day of observation, he set against each other the variation of the temperature under wood from that without, and the variation of the temperature of the wind from the local mean ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... any single state can be a judge of all the comparative reasons which may influence the collective body in arranging the quotas of the continent. The circumstances of the several states are frequently varying, occasioned by the accidents of war and commerce, and it will often fall upon some to help others, rather beyond what their exact proportion at another ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... voices that could now be heard were reassuring indeed. Nearer and nearer they came, until the girls actually became interested to the extent of arranging side combs and otherwise attending to little niceties, dear to the heart of ...

— The Motor Girls Through New England - or, Held by the Gypsies • Margaret Penrose

... second bell he darted into the carriage, as if he had just dispatched some wonderful business to get there in time. While the train was starting, he busied himself in arranging his things; but, once started, he put on his sunny look and prepared to be, as usual, the life and soul of ...

— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade

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