| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A number of persons who have come or been gathered together: assemblage, assembly, body, company, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, crowd, gathering, meeting, muster, troop. Informal : get-together. See COLLECT. 2. A group of people sharing an interest, activity, or achievement: circle, crowd, set2. See GROUP. 3. A number of individuals making up or considered a unit: array, band2, batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch2, collection, knot, lot, party, set2. See GROUP. | | VERB: | 1. To bring together: assemble, call, cluster, collect1, congregate, convene, convoke, gather, get together, muster, round up, summon. See COLLECT. 2. To come together: assemble, cluster, collect1, congregate, convene, forgather, gather, get together, muster. See COLLECT. 3. To distribute into groups according to kinds: assort, categorize, class, classify, pigeonhole, separate, sort (out). See COLLECT. 4. To assign to a class or classes: categorize, class, classify, distribute, grade, pigeonhole, place, range, rank1, rate1. See GROUP, VALUE.
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