| gathering place | | |
| n. (location) | 1. gathering place | a favorite haunt where people gather. |
| ~ hangout, haunt, stamping ground, resort, repair | a frequently visited place. |
| accumulate | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| ~ run up | pile up (debts or scores). |
| ~ corral | collect or gather.; "corralling votes for an election" |
| ~ collect, pull in | get or bring together.; "accumulate evidence" |
| ~ scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up | gather (money or other resources) together over time.; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" |
| ~ chunk, lump | put together indiscriminately.; "lump together all the applicants" |
| ~ bale | make into a bale.; "bale hay" |
| ~ catch | take in and retain.; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater" |
| ~ fund | accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability.; "fund a medical care plan" |
| ~ fund | place or store up in a fund for accumulation. |
| ~ hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, put in | keep or lay aside for future use.; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" |
| v. (change) | 2. accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up | collect or gather.; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| ~ backlog | accumulate and create a backlog. |
| ~ accrete | grow or become attached by accretion.; "The story accreted emotion" |
| ~ drift | be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current.; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow" |
| consolidate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. consolidate | unite into one.; "The companies consolidated" |
| ~ merge, unify, unite | become one.; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" |
| v. (change) | 2. consolidate | make firm or secure; strengthen.; "consolidate one's gains"; "consolidate one's hold on first place" |
| ~ strengthen | gain strength.; "His body strengthened" |
| v. (change) | 3. consolidate | bring together into a single whole or system.; "The town and county schools are being consolidated" |
| ~ merge, unify, unite | join or combine.; "We merged our resources" |
| v. (change) | 4. consolidate | form into a solid mass or whole.; "The mud had consolidated overnight" |
| ~ solidify | become solid.; "The metal solidified when it cooled" |
| v. (change) | 5. consolidate | make or form into a solid or hardened mass.; "consolidate fibers into boards" |
| ~ solidify | make solid or more solid; cause to solidify. |
| flock | | |
| n. (group) | 1. flock | a church congregation guided by a pastor. |
| ~ congregation, faithful, fold | a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church. |
| n. (group) | 2. flock | a group of birds. |
| ~ bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. |
| ~ bevy | a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground).; "we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks" |
| ~ covert | a flock of coots. |
| ~ covey | a small flock of grouse or partridge. |
| ~ exaltation | a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead). |
| ~ gaggle | a flock of geese. |
| ~ wisp | a flock of snipe. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| ~ flight | a flock of flying birds. |
| n. (quantity) | 3. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" |
| ~ large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. |
| ~ deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ haymow | a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation. |
| n. (group) | 4. flock, troop | an orderly crowd.; "a troop of children" |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| n. (group) | 5. flock, fold | a group of sheep or goats. |
| ~ sheep | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| v. (motion) | 6. flock | move as a crowd or in a group.; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 7. clump, cluster, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| ~ huddle, huddle together | crowd or draw together.; "let's huddle together--it's cold!" |
| ~ bunch, bunch together, bunch up | form into a bunch.; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| gather | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. 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" |
| n. (act) | 2. 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. |
| v. (contact) | 3. collect, garner, gather, pull together | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| ~ mobilize, marshal, mobilise, summon | make ready for action or use.; "marshal resources" |
| ~ rake | gather with a rake.; "rake leaves" |
| ~ glean, harvest, reap | gather, as of natural products.; "harvest the grapes" |
| ~ club | gather into a club-like mass.; "club hair" |
| ~ hive | gather into a hive.; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" |
| ~ salvage, scavenge | collect discarded or refused material.; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food" |
| ~ muster, muster up, rally, summon, come up | gather or bring together.; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" |
| ~ round up | seek out and bring together.; "round up some loyal followers" |
| ~ cull, pick, pluck | look for and gather.; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" |
| ~ nut | gather nuts. |
| ~ snail | gather snails.; "We went snailing in the summer" |
| ~ bird-nest, birdnest | gather birdnests.; "They went birdnesting in the early morning" |
| ~ nest | gather nests. |
| ~ oyster | gather oysters, dig oysters. |
| ~ sponge | gather sponges, in the ocean. |
| ~ pearl | gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean. |
| ~ clam | gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean. |
| ~ shock | collect or gather into shocks.; "shock grain" |
| ~ heap up, stack up, pile up | arrange into piles or stacks.; "She piled up her books in my living room" |
| v. (social) | 4. assemble, foregather, forgather, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| ~ aggroup, group | form a group or group together. |
| ~ meet | meet by design; be present at the arrival of.; "Can you meet me at the train station?" |
| ~ encounter, meet, run across, come across, run into, see | come together.; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" |
| ~ congregate | come together, usually for a purpose.; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve" |
| ~ hive | move together in a hive or as if in a hive.; "The bee swarms are hiving" |
| ~ fort, fort up | gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense. |
| ~ convene | meet formally.; "The council convened last week" |
| ~ cluster, clump, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| ~ crowd together, crowd | to gather together in large numbers.; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" |
| ~ converge | move or draw together at a certain location.; "The crowd converged on the movie star" |
| ~ interact | act together or towards others or with others.; "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
| ~ turn out | come and gather for a public event.; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York" |
| ~ caucus | meet to select a candidate or promote a policy. |
| ~ club | gather and spend time together.; "They always club together" |
| v. (communication) | 5. gather | conclude from evidence.; "I gather you have not done your homework" |
| ~ conclude, reason, reason out | decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion.; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" |
| v. (contact) | 6. gather, pucker, tuck | draw together into folds or puckers. |
| ~ sew, sew together, stitch, run up | fasten by sewing; do needlework. |
| v. (social) | 7. assemble, gather, get together | get people together.; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| ~ make | form by assembling individuals or constituents.; "Make a quorum" |
| v. (contact) | 8. gather | draw and bring closer.; "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders" |
| ~ pull | apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion.; "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin" |
| v. (contact) | 9. gather | look for (food) in nature.; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall" |
| ~ look for, search, seek | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" |
| ~ shell | look for and collect shells by the seashore. |
| v. (change) | 10. gain, gather | increase or develop.; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| heap | | |
| n. (group) | 1. agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile | a collection of objects laid on top of each other. |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ compost heap, compost pile | a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost. |
| ~ muckheap, muckhill, dunghill, midden | a heap of dung or refuse. |
| ~ scrapheap | pile of discarded metal. |
| ~ shock | a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field.; "corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"; "whole fields of wheat in shock" |
| ~ slagheap | pile of waste matter from coal mining etc. |
| ~ stack | an orderly pile. |
| ~ funeral pyre, pyre | wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite. |
| ~ woodpile | a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel. |
| ~ stockpile | a storage pile accumulated for future use. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. bus, heap, jalopy | a car that is old and unreliable.; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus" |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| ~ dysphemism | an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one.; "his favorite dysphemism was to ask for axle grease when he wanted butter" |
| v. (possession) | 3. heap | bestow in large quantities.; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him" |
| ~ give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" |
| v. (contact) | 4. heap, pile, stack | arrange in stacks.; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
| ~ rick | pile in ricks.; "rick hay" |
| ~ cord | stack in cords.; "cord firewood" |
| v. (change) | 5. heap | fill to overflow.; "heap the platter with potatoes" |
| ~ fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense.; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride" |
| huddle | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. huddle, powwow | (informal) a quick private conference. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ group discussion, conference | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic. |
| ~ huddler | a member of a huddle. |
| n. (group) | 2. huddle | a disorganized and densely packed crowd.; "a huddle of frightened women" |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| ~ huddler | a member of a huddle. |
| v. (motion) | 3. huddle, huddle together | crowd or draw together.; "let's huddle together--it's cold!" |
| ~ cluster, clump, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| v. (motion) | 4. cower, huddle | crouch or curl up.; "They huddled outside in the rain" |
| ~ crouch, stoop, bend, bow | bend one's back forward from the waist on down.; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" |
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