arrangement
part of speech
noun (an arrangement, arrangements)
meaning for a pupil
1) A plan made in advance for something to happen (travel arrangements). tree →
2) An agreement between people (we have an arrangement to share the car). tree →
3) The way things are put in order or in a pattern (an arrangement of chairs, a flower arrangement). tree →
4) (maths) One possible order of a set of things. tree →
5) (music) A version of a piece of music written for certain instruments or voices. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, arrangements are different orders of objects or digits (how many arrangements of the letters A, B, C?) and arrays (an arrangement of 3 rows of 4). In everyday life, plans for parties, trips and pick-ups. Phrases: «make arrangements», «by arrangement», «seating arrangement», «flower arrangement».
examples
- We made arrangements to meet at the park. tree →
- Mum and Mrs Brown have an arrangement to share the school run. tree →
- The chairs were in an arrangement of 5 rows of 6. tree →
- How many arrangements of the letters C, A, T are there? tree →
- She made a lovely flower arrangement. tree →
- The band played a new arrangement of the song. tree →
- Visits are by arrangement only. tree →
- But for each guest the neatest and pleasantest arrangement had been made. tree →
note
Countable. Verb «arrange». In maths: an array arrangement of 4 rows of 5 has 4 × 5 = 20 objects; the number of different orders of 3 different things is 3 × 2 × 1 = 6. «Make arrangements» is usually plural.
In the corpora
- "Pre-need arrangements" is American funeral-business jargon for paying for your own funeral in advance.
- "Plausible deniability" means an arrangement that lets leaders deny they knew about something.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «arrangement» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.