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arrange

verb
/əˈɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *(H)rek-der. Proto-Celtic *reketi Gaulish *rekosbor. Vulgar Latin *rencus Old French reng Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Old French rengier Old French arangierbor. Middle English arengen English arrange Inherited from Middle English arengen, arrangen (“to draw up a battle line”), borrowed from Old French arengier, arangier (“to put in a line, put in a row”), derived from reng, rang, ranc (“line, row, rank”), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, a form of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻
  2. derived from *(s)krengʰ-✻
  3. derived from *hringaz✻
  4. derived from *hring✻ — “ring”
  5. derived from arengier
  6. inherited from arengen

Definitions

  1. To set up

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

    • The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

  2. To plan

    To plan; to prepare in advance.

    • to arrange to meet; to arrange for supper
    • It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.

  3. To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its…

    To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. rearranged rendition of a song

      rearranged rendition of a song; arrangement

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Derived

arrangeability, arrangeable, arrange someone's funeral, disarrange, misarrange, overarrange, prearrange, rearrange, subarrange, unarranged

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at arrange. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at arrange. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at arrange

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA