Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 72 (Assemblage)

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#72. Assemblage. -- N. {opp. 73} assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation[obs]; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement[obs]; team; concourse, conflux[obs], congregation, contesseration|, convergence &c. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione &c. (social gathering) 892[It]; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote[obs]; conclave &c. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus[Lat]; Noah's ark.

miscellany, collectanea[obs]; museum, menagerie &c. (store) 636; museology[obs].

crowd, throng, group,; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue[obs], horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo[obs]; bunch, drive, force, mulada [obs][U.S.]; remuda[obs]; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment &c. (combatants) 726; host &c. (multitude) 102; populousness.

clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c. (party) 712.

volley, shower, storm, cloud.

group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine[obs], fasces[obs], bale; seron[obs], seroon[obs]; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel[obs], stack, sheaf, haycock[obs]; fascicle, fascicule[obs], fasciculus[Lat], gavel, hattock[obs], stook[obs].

accumulation &c. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau[obs], tissue, mass, pyramid; bing[obs]; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation[obs], cumulation; glomeration[obs], agglomeration; conglobation[obs]; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate[Chem], coacervation[Chem], coagmentation[obs], aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum[Lat], spicilegium[obs], black hole of Calcutta; quantity &c. (greatness) 31. collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.

V. assemble[be or come together], 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.

[get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate[obs]; get , whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate[obs]; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate[obs]; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup[obs], concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate &c. (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Adj. assembled &c. v.; closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative. Phr. the plot thickens; acervatim[Lat]; tibi seris tibi metis[Lat].