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[ adverb ] in conjunction with; combined

Examples

"Our salaries put together couldn't pay for the damage" "we couldn`t pay for the damages with all out salaries put together"

Used in print

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

To be eligible to borrow from a Bank_for_Cooperatives , a cooperative must be an association in which farmers act together in processing and marketing farm products , purchasing farm supplies , or furnishing farm business services , and must meet the requirements set_forth in the Farm_Credit_Act_of_1933 , as amended .

(Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present , this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical_chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces .

(Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)

Data on such comparisons together with data on the effect of light intensity are given in Table /1 .

(Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Linear Al...)

On_the_other_hand , the null_space of * * f and the null_space of * * f together span V , the former being the subspace spanned by * * f and the latter the subspace spanned by * * f and * * f .

(Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)

Strictly_speaking , this means that the probability for each possible outcome of the experiment can be computed by multiplying together the probabilities of the possible outcomes of the single binomial trials .

2
[ adverb ] in contact with each other

Examples

"the leaves stuck together"

Used in print

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

The child should then bring both legs together overhead , point the toes and tighten the seat muscles .

(James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)

The separate layers are joined together by hydrogen_bonds .

(Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)

( 3 ) For anionics , these micelles appear to be roughly spherical assemblages in which the hydrocarbon tails come together so that the polar groups ( the ionized ends ) face outward towards the aqueous continuous phase .

(William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)

But by the tracing procedure , he could , in a strange obviously kinesthetic manner , find the unseen form ; could piece , as_it_were , the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and_then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned_out to be .

(Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)

With incredible ferocity , he brought his fists together and struck .

3
[ adverb ] assembled in one place

Synonyms

assembled

Examples

"we were gathered together"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

It is not enough in accounting_for this feeling to analyze it into the wickedness of individual people added together to produce a cumulative effect .

(Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)

The **f values are listed in Table 1 together with the measured surface temperatures and arc voltages .

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

Although Andrena is gregarious , so that we may find hundreds and hundreds of burrows together , we must still call it a solitary bee .

(W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)

Dives , carefully repaired huts , and nicely painted and ornamented cottages were jumbled together cheek_by_jowl with little distinction .

(Howard Fast, April Morning....)

If we cluster together , the redcoats can make an advantage out of_it , but there 's not a blessed thing they can do with two or three of us except chase us , and we can outrun them '' .

4
[ adverb ] in each other's company

Examples

"we went to the movies together" "the family that prays together stays together"

Used in print

(The Atlanta Constitution...)

The petition said that the couple has not lived together as man_and_wife for more than a year .

(Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)

A family of five plans to go together either to the beach or to the mountains , and a coin is tossed to decide .

In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple , the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply , because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors .

(Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)

`` We all know that Jake_Camaret and the woman are brazenly living together .

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak_house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again .

5
[ adverb ] at the same time

Examples

"we graduated together"

Used in print

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

When these fields are surveyed together , important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence , a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions , primarily literary , religious , and philosophical , but frequently including contact with the fine_arts and even , to some extent , with science .

(Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)

These included , as one , Mr. and Mrs._Anthony_Payne , who had checked_in a little after noon the day before , and had not checked_out together .

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[ adverb ] with cooperation and interchange

Examples

"we worked together on the project"

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

Some time later the missing part of the relic was found and the complete inscription , together with other new evidence , fully corroborated the ancient priest 's information .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

The brothers drove down together in Mark 's small red sports_car , Mark at_the_wheel .

(Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)

Four or five of the cousins from East_Texas were about his age , so naturally they ran_around together .

Related terms

combined combined

7
[ adjective ] (informal) mentally and emotionally stable

Examples

"she's really together"

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Linking the smoothly changing images together , the eye itself endows them with the illusion of movement .

(S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)

We have attempted to simplify the extensive task of analyzing onset ages and completion ages of each child - more_than 1700 values for the entire group - by constructing figures for each of the 21 centers so that the data for all 34 boys and 34 of the girls will appear together for each growth center .

Related terms

colloquialism unneurotic

8
[ adverb ] with a common plan

Examples

"act in concert"

Used in print

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby , at the moment of his collapse , all these elements come together in prophetic parody .

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