arrange

Definition of arrange in English English dictionary: To put in order, to organize; To prepare and adapt an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form; To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner; to put in definite or proper order; {v} to set in order, to put in due place; If a piece of music is arranged by someone, it is changed or adapted so that it is suitable for particular instruments or voices, or for a particular performance; Adapt an existing musical idea for different instruments, voices, or electronic media; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"; make arrangements for; "Can you arrange a meeting with the President?"; To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking; make preparation for an event; put in proper order; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" make arrangements for; "Can you arrange a meeting with the President?" put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" adapt for performance in a different way; "set this poem to music; plan, organize, and carry out (an event); arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding"; set (printed matter) into a specific format; "Format this letter so it can be printed out"; verb-infinitive put; If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen. She arranged an appointment for Friday afternoon at four-fifteen; 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; adapt for performance in a different way; "set this poem to music; {f} organize; settle; arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc; If you arrange something for someone, you make it possible for them to have it or to do it. I will arrange for someone to take you round The hotel manager will arrange for a baby-sitter I've arranged your hotels for you; put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order"; If you arrange things somewhere, you place them in a particular position, usually in order to make them look attractive or tidy. When she has a little spare time she enjoys arranging dried flowers; put into order, as in: It is very important how you arrange the information on your Web site; adapt for performance in a different way; "set this poem to music"; A process of organizing the records in a database in a specific order, either alphabetically (from A to Z or reverse alphabetically from Z to A) or numerically (from 0 to 9 or reverse numerically from 9 to 0) (DB, Gr 5); If you arrange with someone to do something, you make plans with them to do it. I've arranged to see him on Friday morning It was arranged that the party would gather for lunch in the Royal Garden Hotel He had arranged for the boxes to be stored until they could be collected; To set for one instrument (or instruments) a piece of music that was originally composed for another; arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc ; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
pre-arrange: To arrange in advance
arranged: past of arrange
arranged: disposed or placed in a particular kind of order; "the carefully arranged chessmen"; "haphazardly arranged interlobular septa"; "comfortable chairs arranged around the fireplace
arranged: If you say how things are arranged, you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else. The house itself is three stories high and arranged around a courtyard
arranged: deliberately arranged for effect; "one of those artfully staged photographs"
arranged: {s} organized, ordered
arranged: planned in advance; "an arranged marriage"
arranger: An arranger is a person who arranges things for other people. a loan arranger
arranger: Someone who arranges music (see 'Arrangement') Famous jazz arrangers include Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan Search Google com for Arranger
arranger: a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
arranger: An arranger is a musician who arranges music by other composers, either for particular instruments or voices, or for a particular performance
arranger: {i} one who arranges, one who organizes or sets
arranger: Manager of a consortium in the case of credit syndicates and flotations The arranger is responsible for the documentation and the placement mechanism He is comparable with the lead manager of an international loan
arranger: one who reworks preexisting musical compositions
arranger: a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise
arranger: One who arranges
arranges: third-person singular of arrange
arranging: {i} arrangement, act of arranging and adapting a musical piece
arranging: The process of putting in order musical parts, their sequence and timing - in short, mapping out the plot of a song
arranging: Musical adaptation of previously written material
arranging: Present participle of arrange
arranging: gerund action
arranging: Resetting music for other instruments or voices or for another style of performance than that for which it was originally written
arranging: the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

arrange

Hyphenation

ar·range

Turkish pronunciation

ıreync

Synonyms

align, array, class, classify, clear the decks, dispose, file, fix up, form, group, line up, methodize, organize, police, police up

Antonyms

confuse, derange, disarrange, disorder, disorganize, disperse, disturb, mix up, scatter, not plan

Pronunciation

/ərˈānʤ/ /ɜrˈeɪnʤ/

Etymology

[ &-'rAnj ] (verb.) 1789. Middle English arengen, arrangen "to draw up a battle line" from Old French arengier, arrangier "to put in a line, put in a row" from reng, rang, ranc "line, row, rank", of Germanic origin, from Frankish hring "ring" from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg "ring", Old Norse hringr "ring, circle, queue, sword; ship". More at ring