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[ noun ] a grouping of a number of similar things
Synonyms Examples "a bunch of trees" "a cluster of admirers" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper , and the only lesser immediacy of block_capitals that simulate window lettering , manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture_plane so that it does not `` jump '' . In_order to be saved , plasticity had had to be isolated ; and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more_or_less interchangeable and contour obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method , the subject itself became largely unrecognizable . (Howard Fast, April Morning....)Wherever you looked , you saw Committeemen running across the meadows , some away from the road , some toward it , some parallel to it ; and about a mile to the west a cluster of at_least fifty militia were making their way in our direction . While this was being discussed , we saw the militia to the west of us fanning_out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road . Related terms agglomeration knot swad tuft Omega_Centauri Pleiades Northern_Cross bunch |
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[ verb ] come together as in a cluster or flock
Synonyms Examples "The poets constellate in this town every summer" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)By fall , 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort_Snelling , but most_of them were sent_on to Galena and St._Louis , with a few going as far as Vevay , Indiana , a notable Swiss center in the United_States . (Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the...)Members of higher and lower social_status often cluster around this nucleus , so_that Protestant figures on social_class give the impression of spread over all social_classes ; but this is deceptive , for the core of membership is concentrated in a single social and economic stratum . (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)Thus ideas like `` grace '' , `` salvation '' , and `` providence '' cluster together in traditional Christianity . Related terms |
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[ verb ] gather or cause to gather into a cluster
Examples "She bunched her fingers into a fist" "The students bunched up at the registration desk" Used in print (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)I think these attributes cluster , but I have no evidence . Related terms |
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