| gathering | | |
| n. (group) | 1. assemblage, gathering | a group of persons together in one place. |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ building | the occupants of a building.; "the entire building complained about the noise" |
| ~ carload | a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile. |
| ~ contingent | a gathering of persons representative of some larger group.; "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics" |
| ~ floor | the occupants of a floor.; "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat" |
| ~ pair | two people considered as a unit. |
| ~ room | the people who are present in a room.; "the whole room was cheering" |
| ~ threesome, triad, trinity, trio | three people considered as a unit. |
| ~ turnout | the group that gathers together for a particular occasion.; "a large turnout for the meeting" |
| ~ foursome, quartette, quartet | four people considered as a unit.; "he joined a barbershop quartet"; "the foursome teed off before 9 a.m." |
| ~ fivesome, quintette, quintet | five people considered as a unit. |
| ~ sixsome, sextette, sextet | six people considered as a unit. |
| ~ sevensome, septette, septet | seven people considered as a unit. |
| ~ eightsome, octette, octet | eight people considered as a unit. |
| ~ assembly | a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose. |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| ~ concourse, throng, multitude | a large gathering of people. |
| ~ audience | a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance.; "the audience applauded"; "someone in the audience began to cough" |
| ~ community | a group of people living in a particular local area.; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" |
| ~ municipality | people living in a town or city having local self-government. |
| ~ cast, cast of characters, dramatis personae | the actors in a play. |
| ~ grade, class, course, form | a body of students who are taught together.; "early morning classes are always sleepy" |
| ~ year, class | a body of students who graduate together.; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" |
| ~ social affair, social gathering | a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship. |
| ~ bunch, crowd, gang, crew | an informal body of friends.; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" |
| ~ group meeting, meeting | a formally arranged gathering.; "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson" |
| ~ covey | a small collection of people. |
| ~ quorum | a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business. |
| ~ mass meeting, rally | a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm. |
| ~ commune | a body of people or families living together and sharing everything. |
| ~ convocation | a group gathered in response to a summons. |
| ~ fair | gathering of producers to promote business.; "world fair"; "trade fair"; "book fair" |
| ~ bevy | a large gathering of people of a particular type.; "he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire"; "a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him" |
| ~ entourage, retinue, cortege, suite | the group following and attending to some important person. |
| ~ camp | a group of people living together in a camp.; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake" |
| ~ muster | a gathering of military personnel for duty.; "he was thrown in the brig for missing muster" |
| ~ rap group | a gathering of people holding a rap session. |
| ~ rave-up | a raucous gathering. |
| ~ table | a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game.; "he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks" |
| ~ wine tasting | a gathering of people to taste and compare different wines. |
| n. (act) | 2. assemblage, assembly, gathering | the social act of assembling.; "they demanded the right of assembly" |
| ~ group action | action taken by a group of people. |
| ~ mobilisation, mobilization | act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action.; "mobilization of the country's economic resources" |
| ~ calling together, convocation | the act of convoking. |
| ~ coming together, meeting | the social act of assembling for some common purpose.; "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day" |
| ~ congregating, congregation | the act of congregating. |
| ~ convening, convention | the act of convening. |
| ~ concentration | bringing together military forces. |
| n. (act) | 3. gather, gathering | the act of gathering something. |
| ~ assembling, collecting, aggregation, collection | the act of gathering something together. |
| ~ centralisation, centralization | gathering to a center. |
| ~ harvest home, harvesting, harvest | the gathering of a ripened crop. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. gather, gathering | sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching. |
| ~ stitchery, sewing | needlework on which you are working with needle and thread.; "she put her sewing back in the basket" |
| reunion | | |
| n. (group) | 1. reunion | a party of former associates who have come together again. |
| ~ party | a group of people gathered together for pleasure.; "she joined the party after dinner" |
| n. (act) | 2. reunification, reunion | the act of coming together again.; "monetary unification precipitated the reunification of the German state in October 1990" |
| ~ jointure, uniting, unification, conjugation, union | the act of making or becoming a single unit.; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" |
| ~ homecoming | an annual school or university reunion for graduates. |
| union | | |
| n. (group) | 1. brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union, union | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" |
| ~ organization, organisation | a group of people who work together. |
| ~ industrial union, vertical union | a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft. |
| ~ craft union | a labor union whose membership is restricted to workers in a particular craft. |
| ~ company union | a union of workers for a single company; a union not affiliated with a larger union. |
| ~ labor movement, trade union movement, labor | an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement. |
| ~ i.w.w., industrial workers of the world, iww | a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I. |
| n. (location) | 2. north, union | the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War).; "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale" |
| ~ america, the states, u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, u.s. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776. |
| ~ america, the states, u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, u.s. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776. |
| ~ free state | any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War. |
| n. (act) | 3. conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union | the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" |
| ~ sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | activities associated with sexual intercourse.; "they had sex in the back seat" |
| ~ assortative mating | mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating. |
| ~ disassortative mating | mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating. |
| ~ crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, cross, crossing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids. |
| ~ inbreeding | the act of mating closely related individuals. |
| ~ servicing, service | the act of mating by male animals.; "the bull was worth good money in servicing fees" |
| n. (state) | 4. unification, union | the state of being joined or united or linked.; "there is strength in union" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ coalition, fusion | the state of being combined into one body. |
| ~ connectedness, connection, link | the state of being connected.; "the connection between church and state is inescapable" |
| ~ colligation, conjugation, conjunction, junction | the state of being joined together. |
| ~ association | the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination.; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break" |
| ~ marriage | a close and intimate union.; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas" |
| ~ syncretism | the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy).; "a syncretism of material and immaterial theories" |
| n. (state) | 5. marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock | the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce).; "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ marital status | the condition of being married or unmarried. |
| ~ bigamy | having two spouses at the same time. |
| ~ common-law marriage | a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony. |
| ~ endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage | marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law. |
| ~ exogamy, intermarriage | marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law. |
| ~ marriage of convenience | a marriage for expediency rather than love. |
| ~ misalliance | an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage). |
| ~ monandry | the state of having only one husband at a time. |
| ~ monogamousness, monogamy | having only one spouse at a time. |
| ~ open marriage | a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other. |
| ~ cuckoldom | the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery. |
| ~ polygamy | having more than one spouse at a time. |
| ~ sigeh | a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years.; "sigeh legally wraps premarital sex in an Islamic cloak" |
| n. (process) | 6. conglutination, union | healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones. |
| ~ healing | the natural process by which the body repairs itself. |
| n. (group) | 7. union | a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.; "the Soviet Union" |
| ~ confederacy, confederation, federation | a union of political organizations. |
| ~ enosis | the union of Greece and Cyprus (which is the goal of a group of Greek Cypriots). |
| ~ league | an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action. |
| ~ customs union | an association of nations to promote free trade within the union and set common tariffs for nations that are not members. |
| ~ political entity, political unit | a unit with political responsibilities. |
| n. (group) | 8. join, sum, union | a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
| ~ direct sum | a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets. |
| n. (event) | 9. union | the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals" |
| ~ happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | an event that happens. |
| ~ amphimixis | union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction. |
| ~ fusion, unification, merger | an occurrence that involves the production of a union. |
| ~ combining, combine | an occurrence that results in things being united. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. union | a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner). |
| ~ device | an emblematic design (especially in heraldry).; "he was recognized by the device on his shield" |
| n. (act) | 11. conjugation, jointure, unification, union, uniting | the act of making or becoming a single unit.; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" |
| ~ compounding, combining, combination | the act of combining things to form a new whole. |
| ~ coalescence, coalescency, conglutination, coalition, concretion | the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts. |
| ~ reunification, reunion | the act of coming together again.; "monetary unification precipitated the reunification of the German state in October 1990" |
| ~ tribalisation, tribalization | the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis. |
| ~ umbrella | having the function of uniting a group of similar things.; "the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups"; "under the umbrella of capitalism" |
| adj. | 12. federal, union | being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman" |
| ~ northern | in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line.; "Northern liberals"; "northern industry"; "northern cities" |
| adj. | 13. union | of trade unions.; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract" |
| ~ closed | requiring union membership.; "a closed shop" |
| ~ organised, unionised, unionized, organized | being a member of or formed into a labor union.; "organized labor"; "unionized workers"; "a unionized shop" |
| join | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. articulation, join, joint, junction, juncture | the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made. |
| ~ esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction | the junction between the esophagus and the stomach epithelium. |
| ~ connexion, link, connection | a connecting shape. |
| v. (social) | 2. fall in, get together, join | become part of; become a member of a group or organization.; "He joined the Communist Party as a young man" |
| ~ sign up | join a club, an activity, etc. with the intention to join or participate,.; "Sign up for yoga classes" |
| ~ band oneself, league together | attach oneself to a group. |
| ~ unionise, unionize, organise, organize | form or join a union.; "The auto workers decided to unionize" |
| ~ affiliate | join in an affiliation.; "The two colleges affiliated"; "They affiliated with a national group" |
| ~ rejoin | join again. |
| ~ infiltrate, penetrate | enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members.; "The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor" |
| ~ unite, unify | act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief. |
| v. (contact) | 3. bring together, join | cause to become joined or linked.; "join these two parts so that they fit together" |
| ~ ancylose, ankylose | produce ankylosis by surgery. |
| ~ connect | join for the purpose of communication.; "Operator, could you connect me to the Raffles in Singapore?" |
| ~ connect | join by means of communication equipment.; "The telephone company finally put in lines to connect the towns in this area" |
| ~ conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| ~ miter | fit together in a miter joint. |
| ~ ply | join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding.; "ply fabric" |
| ~ close up, close | unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of.; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella" |
| ~ anastomose, inosculate | cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis.; "anastomose blood vessels" |
| ~ couple, mate, pair, twin, match | bring two objects, ideas, or people together.; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project" |
| ~ match | give or join in marriage. |
| ~ mortice, mortise | join by a tenon and mortise. |
| ~ cog | join pieces of wood with cogs. |
| ~ fair | join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly. |
| ~ scarf | unite by a scarf joint. |
| ~ rebate | join with a rebate.; "rebate the pieces of timber and stone" |
| ~ rabbet | join with a rabbet joint. |
| ~ seam | put together with a seam.; "seam a dress" |
| ~ bridge | make a bridge across.; "bridge a river" |
| ~ connect, link, link up, tie | connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" |
| ~ close | bring together all the elements or parts of.; "Management closed ranks" |
| ~ ligate | join letters in a ligature when writing. |
| ~ assemble, put together, tack together, piece, set up, tack | create by putting components or members together.; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" |
| ~ sovietise, sovietize | bring under Soviet control, of a country. |
| v. (social) | 4. join | come into the company of.; "She joined him for a drink" |
| v. (contact) | 5. conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| ~ feather | join tongue and groove, in carpentry. |
| ~ attach | become attached.; "The spider's thread attached to the window sill" |
| ~ cross-link | join by creating covalent bonds (of adjacent chains of a polymer or protein). |
| ~ anastomose, inosculate | come together or open into each other.; "the blood vessels anastomose" |
| ~ connect, link, link up, tie | connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" |
| ~ copulate, mate, couple, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| ~ yoke | become joined or linked together. |
| ~ engraft, graft, ingraft | cause to grow together parts from different plants.; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" |
| ~ splice | join together so as to form new genetic combinations.; "splice genes" |
| ~ splice | join the ends of.; "splice film" |
| ~ patch, piece | to join or unite the pieces of.; "patch the skirt" |
| ~ solder | join or fuse with solder.; "solder these two pipes together" |
| ~ weld | join together by heating.; "weld metal" |
| ~ quilt | stitch or sew together.; "quilt the skirt" |
| ~ entwine, knit | tie or link together. |
| v. (stative) | 6. connect, join, link, link up, unite | be or become joined or united or linked.; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport" |
| ~ syndicate | join together into a syndicate.; "The banks syndicated" |
| ~ articulate | unite by forming a joint or joints.; "the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones" |
| ~ complect, interconnect, interlink | be interwoven or interconnected.; "The bones are interconnected via the muscle" |
| merge | | |
| v. (change) | 1. merge, unify, unite | become one.; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" |
| ~ consolidate | unite into one.; "The companies consolidated" |
| ~ consubstantiate | become united in substance.; "thought and the object consubstantiate" |
| ~ syncretise, syncretize | unite (beliefs or conflicting principles). |
| ~ converge | come together so as to form a single product.; "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power" |
| ~ federate, federalise, federalize | enter into a league for a common purpose.; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union" |
| ~ integrate | become one; become integrated.; "The students at this school integrate immediately, despite their different backgrounds" |
| ~ coalesce | fuse or cause to grow together. |
| v. (change) | 2. blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix | mix together different elements.; "The colors blend well" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ gauge | mix in specific proportions.; "gauge plaster" |
| ~ absorb | cause to become one with.; "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax" |
| ~ meld, melt | lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually.; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene" |
| ~ mix in, blend in | cause (something) to be mixed with (something else).; "At this stage of making the cake, blend in the nuts" |
| ~ accrete | grow together (of plants and organs).; "After many years the rose bushes grew together" |
| ~ conjugate | unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds. |
| ~ admix | mix or blend.; "Hyaline casts were admixed with neutrophils" |
| ~ alloy | make an alloy of. |
| ~ syncretise, syncretize | become fused. |
| v. (change) | 3. merge, unify, unite | join or combine.; "We merged our resources" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ consolidate | bring together into a single whole or system.; "The town and county schools are being consolidated" |
| ~ weld | unite closely or intimately.; "Her gratitude welded her to him" |
| ~ consubstantiate | unite in one common substance.; "Thought is consubstantiated with the object" |
| rally | | |
| n. (group) | 1. mass meeting, rally | a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm. |
| ~ assemblage, gathering | a group of persons together in one place. |
| ~ pep rally | a rally (especially of students) before a game. |
| ~ revival meeting, revival | an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion. |
| n. (act) | 2. rally, rallying | the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort.; "he singled to start a rally in the 9th inning"; "he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack" |
| ~ exploit, feat, effort | a notable achievement.; "he performed a great feat"; "the book was her finest effort" |
| n. (process) | 3. rally | a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness. |
| ~ convalescence, recuperation, recovery | gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury. |
| n. (event) | 4. rally | an automobile race run over public roads. |
| ~ auto race, automobile race, car race | a race between (usually high-performance) automobiles. |
| n. (act) | 5. exchange, rally | (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes.; "after a short rally Connors won the point" |
| ~ squash rackets, squash racquets, squash | a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets. |
| ~ badminton | a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net. |
| ~ lawn tennis, tennis | a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court. |
| ~ ping-pong, table tennis | a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball. |
| ~ group action | action taken by a group of people. |
| v. (contact) | 6. beat up, drum up, rally | gather.; "drum up support" |
| ~ collect, pull in | get or bring together.; "accumulate evidence" |
| v. (competition) | 7. call up, mobilise, mobilize, rally | call to arms; of military personnel. |
| ~ send for, call | order, request, or command to come.; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" |
| v. (contact) | 8. come up, muster, muster up, rally, summon | gather or bring together.; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" |
| ~ gather, pull together, collect, garner | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| v. (change) | 9. rally, rebound | return to a former condition.; "The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied" |
| ~ recuperate, go back, recover | regain a former condition after a financial loss.; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate" |
| v. (communication) | 10. bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit | harass with persistent criticism or carping.; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" |
| ~ bemock, mock | treat with contempt.; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles" |
| ~ jeer, scoff, flout, gibe, barrack | laugh at with contempt and derision.; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" |
| ~ banter, chaff, jolly, josh, kid | be silly or tease one another.; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around" |
| recollect | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve, think | recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" |
| ~ know | perceive as familiar.; "I know this voice!" |
| ~ recognize, recognise | perceive to be the same. |
| ~ brush up, refresh, review | refresh one's memory.; "I reviewed the material before the test" |
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