English words for 'The quality of being congregative.'
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noun
- the quality of being united into one
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
- (mathematics) The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
- (law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
- (uncountable) Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
- A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
- Agreement; harmony.
- (Quakerism) The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.
- (drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).
verb
adj
noun
noun
- the act of congregating
- The act of congregating or collecting together.
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
- A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
- A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
- (UK, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
- A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
- Any large gathering of people.
- A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
noun
- A socially cohesive group of people within a society.
- (taxonomy) A hierarchical rank between family and genus.
- (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
- (synecdochic) A tribal nation or people.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- A class or group of things.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (informal, derogatory) A nation or people considered culturally primitive, as may be the case in Africa, Australia or Native America.
- (history, anthropology) An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
- A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians.
- a federation (as of American Indians)
- a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
- group of people related by blood or marriage
verb
noun
- (rare) communality, sharedness.
- Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
- (rare) Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
- (chiefly Western, often derogatory, colloquial) Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
- The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
- Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
- a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
- a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To crowd together.
- (transitive) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
- (intransitive, American football) To form a huddle.
- To get together and discuss a topic.
- (intransitive) To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
- (transitive) To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
- (bridge, intransitive) To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.
- crouch or curl up
- crowd or draw together
adj
noun
- (journalism) A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.
- A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
- (bridge) A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
- (American football) A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
- (informal) a quick private conference
- a disorganized and densely packed crowd
verb
noun
- (computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- (business) A commercial organization.
- (military) An air force formation.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (chemistry) A functional group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
- any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
noun
- (by extension) Dissimilarity of people in a single group.
- Resulting from the actions of multiple or external causal agents.
- The use of multiple names for a single person or thing; polyonymy
- The condition of being heteronyms; the relationship between two words with different meanings and either the same spelling or the same pronunciation but not both.
- A single word or symbol that can have different but related meanings.
- The unrelatedness of words for items that are related by being members of a single category.
noun
- the quality of being united into one
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
- (mathematics) The number 1 or any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
- (law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
- (uncountable) Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
- A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
- Agreement; harmony.
- (Quakerism) The form of consensus in a Quaker meeting for business which signals that a decision has been reached. In order to achieve unity, everyone who does not agree with the decision must explicitly stand aside, possibly being recorded in the minutes as doing so.
- (drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama: unity of action (nothing should be admitted not directly relevant to the development of the plot), unity of place (the scenes should be set in the same place), and unity of time (all the events should be such as might happen within a single day).
noun
- the act of congregating
- The act of congregating or collecting together.
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
- A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
- A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
- (UK, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
- A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
- Any large gathering of people.
- A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
noun
- A socially cohesive group of people within a society.
- (taxonomy) A hierarchical rank between family and genus.
- (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
- (synecdochic) A tribal nation or people.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- A class or group of things.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (informal, derogatory) A nation or people considered culturally primitive, as may be the case in Africa, Australia or Native America.
- (history, anthropology) An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
- A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians.
- a federation (as of American Indians)
- a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
- group of people related by blood or marriage
verb
noun
- (rare) communality, sharedness.
- Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
- (rare) Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
- (chiefly Western, often derogatory, colloquial) Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
- The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
- Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
- a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
- a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
noun
noun
- (by extension) Dissimilarity of people in a single group.
- Resulting from the actions of multiple or external causal agents.
- The use of multiple names for a single person or thing; polyonymy
- The condition of being heteronyms; the relationship between two words with different meanings and either the same spelling or the same pronunciation but not both.
- A single word or symbol that can have different but related meanings.
- The unrelatedness of words for items that are related by being members of a single category.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To crowd together.
- (transitive) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
- (intransitive, American football) To form a huddle.
- To get together and discuss a topic.
- (intransitive) To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
- (transitive) To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
- (bridge, intransitive) To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.
- crouch or curl up
- crowd or draw together
adj
noun
- (journalism) A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.
- A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
- (bridge) A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
- (American football) A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
- (informal) a quick private conference
- a disorganized and densely packed crowd
verb
noun
- (computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- (business) A commercial organization.
- (military) An air force formation.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (chemistry) A functional group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
- any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule