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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLUSTER, n.
1. A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a knot; as a cluster of raisins.
2. A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body; as a cluster of bees; a cluster of people.
3. A number of things situated near each other; as a cluster of governments in Italy.
CLUSTER, v.i.
1. To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch, or bunches; as, clustering grapes.
2. To form into flakes; as, clustering snow.
3. To collect into flocks or crowds.
CLUSTER, v.t. To collect into a bunch or close body.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, clump, cluster, clustering] v
1: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster, constellate, flock, clump]
2: gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" [syn: bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English clyster; akin to Old English clott clot Date: before 12th century a number of similar things that occur together: as a. two or more consecutive consonants or vowels in a segment of speech b. a group of buildings and especially houses built close together on a sizable tract in order to preserve open spaces larger than the individual yard for common recreation c. an aggregation of stars or galaxies that appear close together in the sky and are gravitationally associated d. a larger than expected number of cases of disease (as leukemia) occurring in a particular locality, group of people, or period of time • clustery adjective II. verb (clustered; clustering) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to collect into a cluster <cluster the tents together> 2. to furnish with clusters intransitive verb to grow, assemble, or occur in a cluster <they clustered around the fire>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Phrases and idioms: 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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cluster Clus"ter, v. t. To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells. --Tennyson. Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. --Thomson. Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cluster Clus"ter, n. [AS. cluster, clyster; cf. LG. kluster (also Sw. & Dan. klase a cluster of grapes, D. klissen to be entangled?.)] 1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. --Spenser. 2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. ``Cluster of provinces.'' --Motley. 3. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. --Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cluster Clus"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Clustering.] To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. --Tennyson. The princes of the country clustering together. --Foxe.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(clusters, clustering, clustered) 1. A cluster of people or things is a small group of them close together. There's no town here, just a cluster of shops, cabins and motels at the side of the highway. N-COUNT: oft N of n 2. If people cluster together, they gather together in a small group. The passengers clustered together in small groups... The children clustered around me. VERB: V together, V around/round n see also clustered

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

klus'-ter:

(1) 'eshkol; compare proper name VALE OF ESHCOL. (which see), from root meaning "to bind together." A cluster or bunch of grapes (Ge 40:10; Nu 13:23; Isa 65:8; So 7:8; Mic 7:1, etc.); a cluster of henna flowers (So 1:14); a cluster of dates (So 7:7). "Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter." (De 32:32).

(2) botrus, "gather the clusters of the vine of the earth" (Re 14:18).

The "cluster of raisins" (tsimmuqim) of 1Sa 25:18; 30:12, should rather be "raisin cakes" or "dried raisins."

E. W. G. Masterman

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Clump, bunch, group, assemblage, collection. II. v. n. Grow in bunches, grow in clusters, collect together, crowd together, throng.

Moby Thesaurus

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