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ARRANGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
Synonyms:
arrangement; arranging; transcription
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("arranging" is a kind of...):
composing; composition (musical creation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arranging"):
rearrangement (changing an arrangement)
instrumentation; orchestration (the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments)
orchestration (an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb arrange
Context examples:
She looked round for a moment; he had joined Mr. Knightley at a little distance, and was arranging himself for settled conversation, while smiles of high glee passed between him and his wife.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Information is stored in DNA in a code made by arranging the four bases (identified by the letters A, C, G, and T) in different orders.
(DNA sequencing, NCI Dictionary)
Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) Traveling out of neighborhood, driving, arranging to take buses.
(FAQ - Travel, NCI Thesaurus)
Martin nodded, and went on arranging the books on a kitchen table which served in the room in place of a wash-stand.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning refused to bring in the wood, telling the others that he had been their servant long enough, and had been a fool into the bargain, and that it was now time to make a change, and to try some other way of arranging the work.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Our natural distress, the visits of the neighbours, the arranging of the funeral, and all the work of the inn to be carried on in the meanwhile kept me so busy that I had scarcely time to think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Tom, returning from them into the drawing-room, where Edmund was standing thoughtfully by the fire, while Lady Bertram was on the sofa at a little distance, and Fanny close beside her arranging her work, thus began as he entered—“Such a horribly vile billiard-table as ours is not to be met with, I believe, above ground.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfill her parting injunction.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Twice has she condescended to give me her opinion (unasked too!) on this subject; and it was but the very Saturday night before I left Hunsford—between our pools at quadrille, while Mrs. Jenkinson was arranging Miss de Bourgh's footstool, that she said, 'Mr. Collins, you must marry. A clergyman like you must marry. Choose properly, choose a gentlewoman for my sake; and for your own, let her be an active, useful sort of person, not brought up high, but able to make a small income go a good way. This is my advice. Find such a woman as soon as you can, bring her to Hunsford, and I will visit her.'
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Sir Walter, without hesitation, declared the Admiral to be the best-looking sailor he had ever met with, and went so far as to say, that if his own man might have had the arranging of his hair, he should not be ashamed of being seen with him any where; and the Admiral, with sympathetic cordiality, observed to his wife as they drove back through the park, I thought we should soon come to a deal, my dear, in spite of what they told us at Taunton.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
