| 单词 | agglomerate |
| 释义 | agglomerate (once / 13356 pages) vnadj When things agglomerate, they gather together into a cluster or a group. In some states, people tend to agglomerate into cities, leaving rural areas sparsely populated. You might come across the verb agglomerate in business news — moguls tend to agglomerate companies, collecting them under one controlling interest. You could also describe a website that agglomerates news items, gathering them all into one place. The Latin root word is agglomerare, "to wind or add onto a ball," from ad, "to," and glomerare, "ball of yarn." WORD FAMILYagglomerate: agglomerated, agglomerates, agglomerating, agglomeration, agglomerative+/agglomeration: agglomerations USAGE EXAMPLESThe biggest defect in our mediascape, IMO, is allowing companies to acquire and agglomerate both content production AND delivery pipelines. New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) Attracted by this sonic electromagnetic plate, other seemingly random pitches begin to agglomerate. Washington Post(May 05, 2016) There are many ways of agglomerating past events, parcelling up old clicks of the clock and endowing them with collective meaning. The New Yorker(Mar 23, 2015) 1v form into one cluster Hyper bunch, bunch up, bundle, clump, cluster gather or cause to gather into a cluster 2n a collection of objects laid on top of each other Syn|Hypo|Hyper cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile compost heap, compost pile a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhilla heap of dung or refuse scrapheappile of discarded metal shocka pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field slagheappile of waste matter from coal mining etc stackan orderly pile funeral pyre, pyrewood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite woodpilea pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel stockpilea storage pile accumulated for future use hayrick, haystack, ricka stack of hay accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 3n volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together Hyper volcanic rock extrusive igneous rock solidified near or on the surface of the Earth 4adj clustered together but not coherent an agglomerated flower head Syn agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered collective forming a whole or aggregate |
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