Roget's Thesaurus Part 9

#72. a.s.semblage. -- N. {opp. 73} a.s.semblage; 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]; a.s.sembly, 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. (mult.i.tude) 102; populousness.

clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, a.s.sociation &c. (party) 712.

volley, shower, storm, cloud.

group, cl.u.s.ter, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, a.s.sortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine[obs3], fasces[obs3], bale; seron[obs3], seroon[obs3]; f.a.got, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel[obs3], stack, sheaf, hayc.o.c.k[obs3]; fascicle, fascicule[obs3], fasciculus[Lat], gavel, hattock[obs3], stook[obs3].

acc.u.mulation &c. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau[obs3], tissue, ma.s.s, pyramid; bing[obs3]; drift; s...o...b..ll, snowdrift; acervation[obs3], c.u.mulation; 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; quant.i.ty &c. (greatness) 31.

collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.

V. a.s.semble[be or come together], collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cl.u.s.ter, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, a.s.sociate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; rea.s.semble.

[get or bring together] a.s.semble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, sc.r.a.pe together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate[obs3]; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate[obs3]; rake up, dredge; heap, ma.s.s, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate[obs3]; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup[obs3], concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; ama.s.s, acc.u.mulate &c. (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Adj. a.s.sembled &c. v.; closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a heap, fasciculated, c.u.mulative.

Phr. the plot thickens; acervatim[Lat]; tibi seris tibi metis[Lat].

#73. Nona.s.semblage. 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], circ.u.mfusion[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], circ.u.mfuse[obs3].

turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds; spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.

Adj. una.s.sembled &c. (see a.s.semble &c. 72); dispersed &c. v.; spa.r.s.e, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic &c. (general) 78; adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming.

Adv. sparsim[obs3], here and there, pa.s.sim.

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#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 a.s.signation; point de reunion; issue.

V. bring to a point, bring to a focus, bring to an issue.

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#75. Cla.s.s. -- N. cla.s.s, division, category, categorema[obs3], head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.

kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; a.s.sortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, s.e.x, kin.

manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.

similarity &c. 17.

#76. Inclusion. [Comprehension under, or reference to a cla.s.s.] -- N.

{opp. 77} inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception.

composition &c. (inclusion in a compound) 54.

V. be included in &c.; come under, fall under, range under; belong to, pertain to; range with; merge in.

include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose &c. (circ.u.mscribe) 229; embody, encircle.

reckon among, enumerate among, number among; refer to; place with, arrange with, place under; take into account.

Adj. included, including &c. v.; inclusive; congener, congenerous; of the same cla.s.s &c. 75; encircling.

Phr. a maximis ad minima[Lat], et hoc genus omne[Lat], &c., etc.; et coetera[Lat].

#77. Exclusion. -- N. {opp. 76} exclusion &c. 55.

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#78. Generality. -- N. {opp. 79} generality, generalization; universality; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness[obs3]; dragnet; common run; worldwideness[obs3].

everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N or M, all sorts.

prevalence, run.

V. be general &c. adj.; prevail, be going about, stalk abroad.

render general &c. adj.; generalize.

Adj. general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedical[obs3], widespread &c. (dispersed) 73.

universal; catholic, catholical[obs3]; common, worldwide; ec.u.menical, oec.u.menical[obs3]; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with.

Pan-American, Anglican[obs3], Pan-h.e.l.lenic, Pan-Germanic, Slavic; panharmonic[obs3].

every, all; unspecified, impersonal.

customary &c. (habitual) 613.

Adv. whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all.

generally &c. adj.; always, for better for worse; in general, generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long run &c. (on an average) 29.

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#79. Speciality. -- N. {opp. 78} speciality, specialite[obs3]; individuality, individuity ; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy &c.

(tendency) 176[obs3]; personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness &c. adj[obs3].; singularity &c. (unconformity) 83; reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia.

particulars, details, items, counts; minutiae.

I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself.

V. specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select.

descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the point.

Adj. special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular &c. (exceptional) 83; idiomatic; idiotypical; typical.

this, that; yon, yonder.

Adv. specially, especially, particularly &c. adj.; in particular, in propria persona[Lat]; ad hominem[Lat]; for my part.

each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively, each to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice[Lat], pro re nata[Lat].

namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia[Lat], e.g., i.e., videlicet, viz.; to wit.

Phr. le style est l'homme meme[Fr].

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#80. Normality. -- N. normality, normalcy, normalness[obs3]; familiarity, naturalness; commonness (frequency) 136; rule, standard (conformity) 82; customary (habit) 613; standard, pattern (prototype) 22.

V. normalize, standardize.

Adj. normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual (frequency) 136;

#81. Multiformity. -- N. multiformity, omniformity[obs3]; variety, diversity; multifariousness &c. adj.; varied a.s.sortment.

dissimilarity &c. 18.

Adj. polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous[obs3], multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform[obs3]; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, a.s.sorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne[Lat]; and what not?

de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis [Lat].

jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant; inharmonious, unmatched, unrelated, nonuniform.

omniform[obs3], omnigenous[obs3], omnifarious[obs3]; protean (form) 240.

Phr. "harmoniously confused" [Pope]; "variety's the very spice of life" [Cowper].

#82. Conformity. -- N. {opp. 83} conformity, conformance; observance; habituation; naturalization; conventionality &c. (custom) 613; agreement &c. 23.

example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification, ill.u.s.tration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation.

standard, model, pattern &c. (prototype) 22.

rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order; Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.

V. conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself to; rub off corners.

be regular &c. adj.; move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules, obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom, fall into a usage; follow the fas.h.i.+on, follow the crowd, follow the mult.i.tude; pa.s.s muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups [Fr]; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track &c.

(habit) 613; keep one in countenance.

exemplify, ill.u.s.trate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance &c. n.; elucidate, explain.

Adj. conformable to rule; regular &c. 136; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to c.o.c.ker, according to Gunter; en regle [Fr], selon les regles[Fr], well regulated, orderly; symmetric &c. 242.

conventional &c. (customary) 613; of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.