N. {opp. 73} 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
V. 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
Adj. assembled, 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, tibi seris tibi metis
N. compend,
compendium, abstract,
precis,
epitome, multum in parvo, analysis,
pandect,
digest, sum and substance, brief,
abridgment, summary, apercu,
draft, minute, note,
excerpt,
synopsis, textbook,
conspectus, outlines,
syllabus, contents, heads,
prospectus,
album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers,
anthology,
collectanea,
analecta,
compilation,
recapitulation,
resume, review,
abbreviation,
abbreviature, contraction,
shortening, compression
V. abridge, abstract,
epitomize,
summarize, make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract,
recapitulate, review,
skim, run over, sum up,
abbreviate,
condense,
compile Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words
Phr. it lies in a nutshell