| accumulation | | |
| n. (process) | 1. accretion, accumulation | an increase by natural growth or addition. |
| ~ backup | an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage.; "a traffic backup on the main street"; "he discovered a backup in the toilet" |
| ~ buildup | the result of the process of accumulation.; "the buildup of leaves blocked the drain pipes" |
| ~ deposition, deposit | the natural process of laying down a deposit of something. |
| ~ increment, growth, increase | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important.; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" |
| n. (group) | 2. accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ procession | the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation.; "processions were forbidden" |
| ~ pharmacopoeia | a collection or stock of drugs. |
| ~ string | a collection of objects threaded on a single strand. |
| ~ wardrobe | collection of clothing belonging to one person. |
| ~ wardrobe | collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company. |
| ~ universe, population | (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn.; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" |
| ~ armamentarium | the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine. |
| ~ art collection | a collection of art works. |
| ~ backlog | an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services). |
| ~ battery | a collection of related things intended for use together.; "took a battery of achievement tests" |
| ~ block | a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit.; "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock" |
| ~ rule book, book | a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made.; "they run things by the book around here" |
| ~ book | a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game. |
| ~ bottle collection | a collection of bottles.; "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window" |
| ~ caboodle, bunch, lot | any collection in its entirety.; "she bought the whole caboodle" |
| ~ coin collection | a collection of coins. |
| ~ collage | any collection of diverse things.; "a collage of memories" |
| ~ content | everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something.; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content" |
| ~ tout ensemble, ensemble | an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole. |
| ~ corpus | a collection of writings.; "he edited the Hemingway corpus" |
| ~ crop | a collection of people or things appearing together.; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas" |
| ~ tenantry | tenants of an estate considered as a group. |
| ~ findings | a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes. |
| ~ flagging | flagstones collectively.; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place" |
| ~ flinders | bits and splinters and fragments.; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage" |
| ~ pack | a complete collection of similar things. |
| ~ deal, hand | the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time.; "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand" |
| ~ long suit | in a hand, the suit having the most cards. |
| ~ herbarium | a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study. |
| ~ stamp collection | a collection of stamps. |
| ~ statuary | statues collectively. |
| ~ sum total, sum, summation | the final aggregate.; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" |
| ~ agglomeration | a jumbled collection or mass. |
| ~ gimmickry | a collection of gimmicks. |
| ~ nuclear club | the nations possessing nuclear weapons. |
| ~ cumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound | a collection of objects laid on top of each other. |
| ~ mass | an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people). |
| ~ combination | a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities. |
| ~ congregation | an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together.; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over" |
| ~ hit parade | a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind. |
| ~ judaica | historical and literary materials relating to Judaism. |
| ~ kludge | a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together). |
| ~ program library, subroutine library, library | (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use. |
| ~ library | a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing. |
| ~ mythology | myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person. |
| ~ nag hammadi library, nag hammadi | a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism. |
| ~ biota, biology | all the plant and animal life of a particular region. |
| ~ fauna, zoology | all the animal life in a particular region or period.; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" |
| ~ petting zoo | a collection of docile animals for children to pet and feed. |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ victoriana | collection of materials of or characteristic of the Victorian era. |
| ~ category, class, family | a collection of things sharing a common attribute.; "there are two classes of detergents" |
| ~ job lot | a miscellaneous collection of things sold together. |
| ~ bundle, package, packet, parcel | a collection of things wrapped or boxed together. |
| ~ defense lawyers, defense team, defence, defense | the defendant and his legal advisors collectively.; "the defense called for a mistrial" |
| ~ prosecution | the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant. |
| ~ planting | a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area.; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner" |
| ~ signage | signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters).; "there will be signage displayed at each post" |
| ~ gaap, generally accepted accounting principles | a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures. |
| ~ pantheon | all the gods of a religion. |
| ~ free world | anti-communist countries collectively. |
| ~ third world | underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively. |
| ~ europe | the nations of the European continent collectively.; "the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II" |
| ~ asia | the nations of the Asian continent collectively. |
| ~ north america | the nations of the North American continent collectively. |
| ~ central america | the nations of Central America collectively. |
| ~ south america | the nations of the South American continent collectively.; "South America is an important market for goods from the United States" |
| ~ oort cloud | (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun. |
| ~ galaxy | a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people). |
| ~ extragalactic nebula, galaxy | (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust.; "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'" |
| ~ fleet | a group of warships organized as a tactical unit. |
| ~ fleet | group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership. |
| ~ fleet | group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership. |
| ~ repertoire, repertory | a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule. |
| ~ repertoire, repertory | the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation.; "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters" |
| ~ assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety, mixture | a collection containing a variety of sorts of things.; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" |
| ~ batch, clutch | a collection of things or persons to be handled together. |
| ~ batch | all the loaves of bread baked at the same time. |
| ~ rogue's gallery | a collection of pictures of criminals. |
| ~ expo, exhibition, exposition | a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display. |
| ~ convoy | a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships. |
| ~ traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time. |
| ~ air power, aviation | the aggregation of a country's military aircraft. |
| ~ botany, flora, vegetation | all the plant life in a particular region or period.; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ menagerie | a collection of live animals for study or display. |
| ~ data, information | a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.; "statistical data" |
| ~ ana | a collection of anecdotes about a person or place. |
| ~ mail, post | any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered.; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post" |
| ~ treasure | a collection of precious things.; "the trunk held all her meager treasures" |
| ~ treasure trove | any collection of valuables that is discovered.; "her book was a treasure trove of new ideas"; "mother's attic was a treasure trove when we were looking for antiques" |
| ~ trinketry | trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively. |
| ~ troponomy, troponymy | the place names of a region or a language considered collectively. |
| ~ smithereens | a collection of small fragments considered as a whole.; "Berlin was bombed to smithereens"; "his hopes were dashed to smithereens"; "I wanted to smash him to smithereens"; "the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens" |
| ~ magi, wise men | (New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them. |
| n. (act) | 3. accrual, accruement, accumulation | the act of accumulating. |
| ~ step-up, increase | the act of increasing something.; "he gave me an increase in salary" |
| ~ buildup | the act of building up an accumulation.; "I envied his rapid buildup of assets"; "a military buildup in preparation for the invasion" |
| n. (possession) | 4. accumulation | (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation. |
| ~ finance | the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets. |
| ~ earnings, net income, net profit, profit, profits, lucre, net | the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses). |
| ~ fund, store, stock | a supply of something available for future use.; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars" |
| ~ stockpile, reserve, backlog | something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose. |
| pile | | |
| 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. (quantity) | 2. 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. (possession) | 3. big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks, pile | a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit).; "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ money | wealth reckoned in terms of money.; "all his money is in real estate" |
| n. (body) | 4. down, pile | fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs). |
| ~ hair | a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss.; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells" |
| ~ lanugo | the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. galvanic pile, pile, voltaic pile | battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta. |
| ~ electric battery, battery | a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. pile, piling, spile, stilt | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure. |
| ~ pillar, column | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure. |
| ~ sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet piling | a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. nap, pile | the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave.; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction" |
| ~ thread, yarn | a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor, pile | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy. |
| ~ nuclear reactor, reactor | (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements. |
| v. (contact) | 9. 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. (motion) | 10. jam, mob, pack, pile, throng | press tightly together or cram.; "The crowd packed the auditorium" |
| ~ crowd together, crowd | to gather together in large numbers.; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" |
| v. (contact) | 11. pile | place or lay as if in a pile.; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested" |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| 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. (group) | 3. 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) | 4. 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) | 5. 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) | 6. 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. (artifact) | 1. 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) | 2. 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. (change) | 3. 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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