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单词 confluence
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confluencen.

/ˈkɒnfluːəns/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s confluens, 1500s conflewence.
Etymology: < (late) Latin confluentia flowing together, conflux, < confluĕre to flow together: see confluent n. and -ence suffix. Compare French confluence (15th cent. in Godefroy).
1.
a. A flowing together; the junction and union of two or more streams or moving fluids.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > state or quality of being convergent > [noun] > point of convergence
confluity1623
cone1705
meeting-point1818
conflux1826
confluence1828
nodal point1862
meeting-place1897
node1902
node point1957
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 12 A litle a this side the Bridge over the Ise at Abbingdon is a Confluence of 2. Armes..And at this Confluence self in the very Mouth is a very fair Bridge of 7. Arches.
1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Struct. & Origin Humane Bodies: Pt. II 17 In the..veins..innumerable little Rivulets have their confluence into the Great Vein.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 366 The larger..rivers proceed..from a confluence of brooks and rivulets.
1828 H. Steuart Planter's Guide 30 The residence was upon an island, formed by the confluence of two rivers.
b. figurative and transferred.
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1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. A2 On that side was disimboyned into her veynes by a confluence of blood, the very abstract of all the greatest houses in Christendome.
1848 H. Hallam Suppl. Notes View Europe Middle Ages 15 The Roman fraud and perfidy mingled, in baleful confluence, with the ferocity and violence of the Frank.
c. Applied to the running or flowing together of word-forms originally distinct.
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1887 W. W. Skeat Princ. Eng. Etymol. 1st Ser. §385 Confluence of forms. I use the word confluence advisedly, for it would seem that there is a real tendency..for different words to flow as it were together.
2.
a. The place where two or more rivers, etc., unite.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > place where rivers meet
confluencea1552
confluent1600
confluity1623
conflux1712
watersmeet1828
sangam1857
a1552 [see sense 1a].
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 93 The old Seleucia seated neer the confluence of Euphrates and Tygris.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 111 The Green was..situate at a confluence of shady lanes.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany viii. 112 Built upon the confluence of the rivers.
b. Hence, formerly, the proper name of many towns; esp. in English, of the city at the junction of the Moselle with the Rhine, Koblentz, Latin Confluentes.
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1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxxiij The residue of the states imperial assembled at Eslinge, do mislyke the doinges of them that were at confluence.
1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 3, in 2nd Pt. Herball Allthough Confluence be a good citye.
3. A body of waters produced by the union of several streams; a large body of water, or other fluid, flowing together; a combined flood.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > moving water > [noun]
quicka1300
backwatera1387
main flood?1556
main tide1605
confluence1615
swash1671
flow1802
sweep1816
water slide1824
slide1869
run-off1915
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 257 The further he wadeth in this Riuer, the greater confluence of waters wil ouertake him.
1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices Introd. It runnes in a contrary course, and is the confluence of other waters.
1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 20 To drinke from the mixt confluence of so many corrupt, and poysonous waters.
1745 E. Young Consolation 39 O what a Confluence of ethereal Fires, From Urns un-number'd, down the Steep of Heav'n, Streams to a Point, and centres in my Sight?
4. The running or flocking together of persons; ‘the act of crowding to a place’ (Johnson); concourse.
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society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > to one place
confluence?a1475
affluence1579
afflux1603
conflux1614
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > towards each other or convergence > of numbers of people
concoursec1384
repairc1390
confluence?a1475
resort1485
recourse1516
concursion1533
affluence1579
afflux1603
conflux1614
concurrence1632
flocking1669
run1792
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 191 To whiche cite grete multitude of peple made confluence for cause of erudicion.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 65 Then the Serpentes take theire confluence to hyt on euery syde.
1533 T. More Apol. xxxv, in Wks. 900/2 Sythe vnto this diocise there is so great resorte and confluence.
1673 tr. E. de Refuge Art of Complaisance 68 The places to which there is the most general confluence of young gentlemen.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 147. ⁋5 I was long withheld by the perpetual confluence of visitants.
1847 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 18 May (1874) II. xiv. 177 The approach and confluence of about 420 Dissenting clergymen.
5. A numerous concourse or assemblage (of people); ‘a multitude crowded into one place’ (Johnson).
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous
weredc725
herec855
heap971
trumec1380
multitudea1382
herda1400
swarm1423
confluence1447
puissance?a1475
army?1518
multitudine1547
bike1554
conflux1702
snarl1775
rallya1794
populace1823
hive1834
skreeda1838
skit1913
rort1941
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 186 Gret confluence of peple cam ther to.
1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 13 Amongst that mightie confluence of men.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 42 You see this confluence, this great flood of visitors. View more context for this quotation
1729 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 452 I lie in the neighbourhood of the city..and we have confluences and multitudes.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. ix. 239 The vast confluence of people..forced their way to witness the magnificence.
6. Of things:
a. The action of flowing or coming together, of meeting or collecting in one place.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > towards each other or convergence
concourse1398
recountera1470
congress1578
concurrency1597
flocking1604
confluence1606
contraction1610
congression1611
closing1625
conflux1655
coition1656
concurrencea1661
convolation1676
concursion1692
convergence1713
convergency1794
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 92 In this confluence of so many prosperous successes.
1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 55 The Homœomeric body was one in which a confluence of like particles had taken place.
b. A numerous collection or assemblage, a large quantity gathered from various quarters.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > from various quarters
confluence1654
conflux1655
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra i. 3 He is sure of a confluence of all comforts.
1682 T. Ken Serm. at Funeral of Lady Mainard 16 Grace is a confluence of all Attractives.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 117 There is no other country in the world which could exhibit the same confluence of associations.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

confluencev.

Etymology: < confluence n.: compare influence.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To crowd, to furnish with a confluence of (people).
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > crowd
stuff1571
throng1578
impester1601
thrust1615
throng1637
confluence1656
frequent1667
crowd1695
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 66 Publike Pulpits..confluenc'd with people, as is Cheapside Cross, or the Exchange.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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