Cluster

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: clus=ter

CIDE DICTIONARY

Cluster, n. [AS. cluster, clyster; cf. LG. kluster (also Sw. & Dan. klase a cluster of grapes, D. klissen to be entangled?.)].

•  A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.  [1913 Webster]

  "Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes,
  Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine."  [1913 Webster]
•  A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.  Motley.  [1913 Webster]
•  A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.  [1913 Webster]

  "As bees . . .
  Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
  In clusters."  [1913 Webster]

  "We loved him; but, like beasts
  And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,
  Who did hoot him out o' the city."  [1913 Webster]

Cluster, v. i. 

 To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.  [1913 Webster]
"His sunny hair
Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's."  [1913 Webster]
"The princes of the country clustering together."  [1913 Webster]

Cluster, v. t. 

 To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.  [1913 Webster]
"Not less the bee would range her cells, . . .
The foxglove cluster dappled bells."  [1913 Webster]
"Or from the forest falls the clustered snow."  [1913 Webster]

Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Cluster, n. & v.
--n.
1 a close group or bunch of similar things growing together.
2 a close group or swarm of people, animals, faint stars, gems, etc.
3 a group of successive consonants or vowels.
--v.
1 tr. bring into a cluster or clusters.
2 intr. be or come into a cluster or clusters.
3 intr. (foll. by round, around) gather, congregate.

Idiom

cluster bomb an anti-personnel bomb spraying pellets on impact. cluster pine a Mediterranean pine Pinus pinaster with clustered cones: also called PINASTER.

Etymology

OE clyster: cf. CLOT

THESAURUS

Cluster

accumulate, adhere, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggroup, amass, army, array, assemblage, assemble, assembly, associate, band, batch, bevy, block, body, breccia, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, bundle, cake, clabber, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, clump, clutch, coagulate, cohere, cohue, collect, collection, colligate, collocate, combine, come together, company, compare, compile, concrete, concretion, congeal, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, congregation, converge, copse, copulate, corral, couple, covey, crew, crop, crowd, crush, cumulate, curd, curdle, date, deluge, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, embrace, flock, flock together, flood, flow together, forgather, freeze to, fuse, galaxy, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gather in, gather together, gathering, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, get in, get together, grasp, group, grouping, groupment, grove, grow together, hang on, hang together, hassock, heap, herd together, hive, hold, hold on, hold together, horde, host, huddle, hug, incrassate, inspissate, jam, jell, jellify, jelly, join, juxtapose, knot, league, legion, link, lopper, lot, lump, lump together, make up, mass, match, meet, merge, mess, mill, mob, mobilize, multitude, muster, node, package, pair, panoply, parcel, partner, party, persist, press, put together, rabble, raise, rake up, rally, rally around, rendezvous, round up, rout, ruck, scrape together, seethe, set, shock, slew, solid, solid body, solidify, spate, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, stook, stream, surge, swarm, take hold of, take up, thick, thicken, thicket, throng, tuft, tussock, unite, whip in, wisp

ROGET THESAURUS

Cluster

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

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.