单词	congregate
释义	congregatecon‧gre‧gate /ˈkɒŋɡrɪɡeɪt $ ˈkɑːŋ-/ verb [intransitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINcongregate Origin: 1400-1500 Latin past participle of congregare, from com- ( ➔ COM-) + grex ‘crowd’ Verb Table VERB TABLE congregate Simple Form Present I, you, we, they congregate Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they congregated Present perfect I, you, we, they have congregated he, she, it has congregated Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had congregated Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will congregate Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have congregated Continuous Form Present I am congregating he, she, it is congregating you, we, they are congregating Past I, he, she, it was congregating you, we, they were congregating Present perfect I, you, we, they have been congregating he, she, it has been congregating Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been congregating Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be congregating Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been congregating Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Insects tend to congregate on the underside of leaves. Marchers were due to congregate at Market Square for an open-air meeting. On Friday evening, teenagers congregate outside the bars on Greene Street. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Canals already are fished by sneaky devils, who learn where fish congregate. Is your kitchen the sort of place where family and friends congregate for chats as a matter of course. Many insects have particular types of place where they congregate for mating. The four girls had congregated in her room. There is more than one way in which animals can congregate in the dark, or in the light. They congregate off campus before and after school and during lunch, hoping not to get busted by passing teachers and administrators. They multiply rapidly if ignored, however, and form an unattractive brown film wherever they congregate. Those that drive down usually congregate around two pubs near the ground. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorwhen people come together to make a crowd► gather if people gather , they meet or come together and form a crowd: · By the time the president arrived, a large crowd had gathered.gather around/at/in etc: · Angry workers were gathering on the steps of City Hall.· A crowd gathered around to watch the fight. ► form if a crowd forms , more and more people join a group of people who are already watching or listening to something: · A crowd was beginning to form at the scene of the accident. ► congregate if people congregate in a particular place, a large number of them meet there, especially regularly in the same place, and at the same time: congregate at/in/around etc: · On Friday evening, teenagers congregate outside the bars on Greene Street.· Marchers were due to congregate at Market Square for an open-air meeting. ► converge formal if groups of people converge in a particular place, they come there from many different places and meet together with others to form a large crowd, in order to do something or go somewhere: converge on: · The two groups of demonstrators converged on Hyde Park.· About 20,000 motorcyclists will converge on Milwaukee this weekend, to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Harley Davidson bike company. ► collect if a crowd collects , people gradually come together so that there is a crowd, usually because they stop to watch or listen to something: · An hour or so before the press conference, a crowd began to collect outside the building.· A crowd was starting to collect outside the theatre to await the arrival of the prime minister. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► people · An obvious place for people to congregate was crossroads.· Simultaneously, he said, public places like squares, parks and plazas would be liberally placed where people could congregate.· It was estimated that no fewer than 30,000 people could congregate at Grand Central without serious crowding.· Although it was still only about four in the afternoon, a hundred thousand people must have already congregated. to come together in a group OPP  disperse:  Crowds began to congregate to hear the president’s speech.
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