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aggregate

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Adjective, Adverb
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ag=gre=gate

CIDE DICTIONARY

aggregatev. t. [L. aggregatus, p. p. of aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect into a flock, grex flock, herd. See Gregarious.].
  •  To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.”  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.  [1913 Webster]
    "It is many times hard to discern to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect.
aggregatea. [L. aggregatus, p. p.].
  •  Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.  [1913 Webster]
    "The aggregate testimony of many hundreds."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.  [1913 Webster]
  •  United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.  [1913 Webster]
Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation.
aggregaten. 
  •  A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.  [1913 Webster]
    " In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.  [1913 Webster]
In the aggregate, collectively; together.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

aggregate, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 a collection of, or the total of, disparate elements.
2 pieces of crushed stone, gravel, etc. used in making concrete.
3 a Geol. a mass of minerals formed into solid rock. b a mass of particles.
--adj.
1 (of disparate elements) collected into one mass.
2 constituted by the collection of many units into one body.
3 Bot. a (of fruit) formed from several carpels derived from the same flower (e.g. raspberry). b (of a species) closely related.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. collect together; combine into one mass.
2 tr. colloq. amount to (a specified total).
3 tr. unite (was aggregated to the group).

Idiom
in the aggregate as a whole.
Derivative
aggregation n. aggregative adj.
Etymology
L aggregare aggregat- herd together (as AD-, grex gregis flock)

THESAURUS

aggregate

A to Z, A to izzard, account, accumulate, accumulated, accumulation, acervation, add up, add up to, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate to, aggregation, aggroup, all, all and sundry, all-embracing, all-inclusive, alpha and omega, amass, amassed, amassment, amount, amount to, assemblage, assemble, assembled, batch, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, box score, bring together, budget, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, bunched, bundled, cast, chunk, clump, clumped, cluster, clustered, collect, collected, colligate, collocate, combine, combined, come, come to, compare, compile, complement, comprehensive, comprise, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, congregated, contain, corral, count, cumulate, cumulation, difference, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, each and every, entire, entirety, everything, exhaustive, fascicled, fasciculated, gather, gather in, gather together, gathered, gathering, get in, get together, glomerate, glomeration, gob, gross, group, heaped, holistic, hunk, in session, inclusive, integral, integrated, join, joined, joint, juxtapose, knotted, leagued, length and breadth, lump, lump together, lumped, make up, mass, massed, match, meeting, mobilize, mount up to, muster, number, omnibus, one, one and all, one and indivisible, package, package deal, packaged, pair, partner, piled, product, put together, quantity, quantum, raise, rake up, rally, reckon up to, reckoning, round up, run into, run to, score, scrape together, set, snowball, stacked, stockpile, sum, sum total, summation, take up, tale, tally, the bottom line, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the story, the whole, the whole range, the whole story, tot up to, total, totality, tote, tote up to, unitize, universal, wad, whip in, whole, wrapped up, x number

ROGET THESAURUS

aggregate

Whole

N whole, totality, integrity, totalness, entirety, ensemble, collectiveness, unity, completeness, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, integration, embodiment, integer, all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega, be all and end all, complex, complexus, lock stock and barrel, bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages, trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part, essential part, lion's share, Benjamin's mess, the long and the short, nearly, all, almost all, whole, total, integral, entire, complete, one, individual, unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn, seamless, undiminished, undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised, indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible, wholesale, sweeping, comprehensive, wholly, altogether, totally, entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together, in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run, en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch, substantially, tout bien ou rien.

VB form a whole, constitute a whole, integrate, embody, amass, aggregate, amount to, come to.

Assemblage

VB assemble, 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, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.


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