Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
3. COLLECTIVE ORDER
532 words | Chapter 21
#72. Assemblage.—N. {opp. 73} assemblage; collection, collocation,
colligation[obs3]; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster,
attroupement[obs3]; team; concourse, conflux[obs3], congregation,
contesseration|, convergence &c. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing
room, at home; conversazione &c. (social gathering) 892[It]; assembly,
congress; convention, conventicle; gemote[obs3]; conclave &c. (council)
696; posse, posse comitatus[Lat]; Noah's ark. miscellany,
collectanea[obs3]; museum, menagerie &c. (store) 636; museology[obs3].
crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush,
cohue[obs3], horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party;
swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo[obs3]; bunch,
drive, force, mulada [obs3][U.S.]; remuda[obs3]; roundup [U.S.]; array,
bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment
&c. (combatants) 726; host &c. (multitude) 102; populousness. clan,
brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c. (party) 712. volley,
shower, storm, cloud. group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set,
batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package;
bundle, fascine[obs3], fasces[obs3], bale; seron[obs3], seroon[obs3];
fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel[obs3], stack, sheaf,
haycock[obs3]; fascicle, fascicule[obs3], fasciculus[Lat], gavel,
hattock[obs3], stook[obs3]. accumulation &c. (store) 636; congeries,
heap, lump, pile, rouleau[obs3], tissue, mass, pyramid; bing[obs3];
drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation[obs3], cumulation;
glomeration[obs3], agglomeration; conglobation[obs3]; conglomeration,
conglomerate; coacervate[Chem], coacervation[Chem],
coagmentation[obs3], aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium
gaterum[Lat], spicilegium[obs3], black hole of Calcutta; quantity &c.
(greatness) 31. collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in. V. assemble[be
or come together], collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster,
flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate;
congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round,
rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together;
forgather; huddle; reassemble. [get or bring together] assemble,
muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together,
scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate[obs3];
get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke,
convocate[obs3]; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up,
truss, cram; acervate[obs3]; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group,
aggroup[obs3], concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a
focus; amass, accumulate &c. (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap
Ossa upon Pelion. Adj. assembled &c. v.; closely packed, dense,
serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick
as hops; all of a heap, fasciculated, cumulative. Phr. the plot
thickens; acervatim[Lat]; tibi seris tibi metis[Lat].
#73. Nonassemblage. Dispersion.—N. {opp. 72} dispersion;
disjunction &c. 44; divergence &c. 291; aspersion; scattering &c. v.;
dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment &c.
786; spread, respersion[obs3], circumfusion[obs3], interspersion,
spargefaction[obs3]; affusion[obs3]. waifs and estrays[obs3], flotsam
and jetsam, disjecta membra[Lat], [Hor.]; waveson[obs3]. V. disperse,
scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew,
overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute;
apportion &c. 786; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off;
strew, straw, strow[obs3]; ted; spirtle[obs3], cast, sprinkle; issue,
deal out, retail, utter; resperse[obs3], intersperse; set
abroach[obs3], circumfuse[obs3]. turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to
the winds; spread like wildfire, disperse themselves. Adj. unassembled
&c. (see assemble &c. 72); dispersed &c. v.; sparse, dispread,
broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic &c. (general) 78; adrift,
stray; disheveled, streaming. Adv. sparsim[obs3], here and there,
passim.
#74. [Place of meeting.] Focus.—N. focus; point of convergence &c.
290; corradiation[obs3]; center &c. 222; gathering place, resort haunt
retreat; venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club;
depot &c. (store) 636; trysting place; place of meeting, place of
resort, place of assignation; point de reunion; issue. V. bring to a
point, bring to a focus, bring to an issue.
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