Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Formed into a compact rounded mass; tightly clustered; conglomerate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gather or wind into a ball; collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads; conglomerate.
- To wind; twist.
- In anatomy, conglomerate: an epithet specifically applied to the structure of ordinary glands, such as the salivary, lacrymal, mammary, or pancreatic: opposed to conglobate. See
gland , 1. - In botany, compactly clustered; gathered into a head or heap; growing in massive forms or in dense clusters.
- In entomology, gathered in one or more spots or lines: applied to dots, punctures, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
- verb To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
gather orwind into aball ; tocollect (threads, etc.) into aspherical form or mass.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The media con-glomerate -- with holdings in music, film and television -- is the envy of Hollywood.
King Of The Deal 2008
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No variety of perfectibilism is yet quite dead, as the popularity of Teilhard's con - glomerate sufficiently illustrates.
PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN JOHN PASSMORE 1968
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Low carbon revolution and the emergence of the green-glomerate
Peak Oil News 2010
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The corporation has no obligation to anyone / any ethic / any government, of course it can be pursued by the EPA or the feds for gross violations of laws, but the corporation can disolve itself or be a multi-glomerate offshoot child corporation which the parent is in no way responsible for.
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Lascelles deMercado and Company Limited has taken a $1.38 billion hit from the reconfiguration of its fund to a defined contribution scheme, the con-glomerate has reported.
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A glomerate fpike — fpiculis varie congejlis; having the fpikelets or cemponent fpikes varioufly heaped together: as in Panicum italicum. —
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The glomerate panicle is exemplified in Poa ciliaris, and Daclylis glo - vierata. —
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Haurite anhelantem, & perenni Sarbirium glomerate flu£iu«
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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On the Ocoa, some of the con - glomerate is cemented by lime instead of sand, and in this case the pebbles are not A.p. S. —
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The Tionesta Sandstone (No. 16), varies in texture from moderately coarse con - glomerate to fine-grained sandstone.
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