ARRANGE

dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure

(verb) arrange attractively; “dress my hair for the wedding”

arrange, set up, put, order

(verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; “arrange my schedule”; “set up one’s life”; “I put these memories with those of bygone times”

arrange, fix up

(verb) make arrangements for; “Can you arrange a meeting with the President?”

arrange, set up

(verb) put into a proper or systematic order; “arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order”

stage, arrange

(verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event); “the neighboring tribe staged an invasion”

arrange, set

(verb) adapt for performance in a different way; “set this poem to music”

format, arrange

(verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format; “Format this letter so it can be printed out”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

arrange (third-person singular simple present arranges, present participle arranging, simple past and past participle arranged)

(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.

(transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance.

(music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See English catenative verbs

Source: Wiktionary

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Ar*range", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arranged; p. pr. & vb. n. Arranging.] Etym: [OE. arayngen, OF. arengier, F. arranger, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. rengier, rangier, F. ranger. See Range, v. t.]

1. 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. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

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

Syn.

– Adjust; adapt; range; dispose; classify.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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