| conglomerate | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. conglomerate, pudding stone | a composite rock made up of particles of varying size. |
| ~ rock, stone | material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust.; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" |
| n. (group) | 2. conglomerate, empire | a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization. |
| ~ corp, corporation | a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state. |
| ~ publishing conglomerate, publishing empire | a conglomerate of publishing companies. |
| v. (change) | 3. 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" |
| adj. | 4. conglomerate | composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass.; "the conglomerate peoples of New England" |
| ~ combined | made or joined or united into one. |
| 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. (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. (artifact) | 3. 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) | 4. 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) | 5. 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) | 6. 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" |
| lump | | |
| n. (group) | 1. ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump | a compact mass.; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" |
| ~ clot, coagulum | a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid. |
| ~ agglomeration | a jumbled collection or mass. |
| ~ gob | a lump of slimy stuff.; "a gob of phlegm" |
| ~ clew | a ball of yarn or cord or thread. |
| n. (state) | 2. lump, puffiness, swelling | an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement. |
| ~ spermatocele | a swelling on the epididymis or the testis; usually contains spermatozoa. |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| ~ enlargement | the state of being enlarged. |
| ~ bloat | swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas. |
| ~ bunion | a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe. |
| ~ dropsy, edema, hydrops, oedema | swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities. |
| ~ haematocele, haematocoele, hematocele, hematocoele | swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis). |
| ~ intumescence, intumescency | swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion). |
| ~ iridoncus | swelling of the iris of the eye. |
| ~ lymphogranuloma | swelling of a lymph node. |
| ~ oscheocele, oscheocoele | swelling of the scrotum. |
| ~ tumidity, tumidness | slight swelling of an organ or part. |
| n. (person) | 3. clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum | an awkward stupid person. |
| ~ clumsy person | a person with poor motor coordination. |
| n. (object) | 4. hunk, lump | a large piece of something without definite shape.; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" |
| ~ nodule | (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment). |
| ~ nugget | a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth. |
| ~ part, piece | a portion of a natural object.; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
| v. (contact) | 5. chunk, lump | put together indiscriminately.; "lump together all the applicants" |
| ~ accumulate, collect, compile, amass, hoard, roll up, pile 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" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. chunk, collocate, lump | group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side. |
| ~ group | arrange into a group or groups.; "Can you group these shapes together?" |
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