Word Meanings - CLUSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser. 2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous;

Additional info about word: CLUSTER

1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser. 2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. "Cluster of provinces." Motley. 3. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLUSTER)

• Group
• Cluster
• bunch
• knot
• assemblage
• collocation
• class
• collection
• clump
• order
• assembly
• Knot
• Tie
• bond
• intricacy
• difficulty
• perplexity
• cluster
• band
• group
• protuberance
• joint
• Swarm
• Multitude
• crowd
• throng
• host
• mass
• press
• posse
• bevy
• flock
• troop
• drove
• herd
• horde
• crew
• gang
• shoal
• army
• regiment
• myriad
• inundation
• Tuft
• Bunch
• plume

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CLUSTER)

• Disperse
• scatter
• separate
• segregate
• Relax
• inhibit
• persuade
• entice
• allure
• solicit
• touch
• skim
• graze
• free
• liberate
• ease
• avoid
• relieve

Related words: (words related to CLUSTER)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• SHOAL
  A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." Bacon. Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Waller. (more info) to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin
• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• POSSE
  See VOCABULARY
• TROOPBIRD
  Any troupial.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• HORDEIN
  A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• ELFLOCK
  Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.