From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [la] + [la], from [la], akin to [la].
*** Pronunciation
- Adjective, noun:
- [əglŏ'mərət]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- Verb:
- [əglŏ'mərāt]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. collect ed into a ball , heap , or mass
**** Synonyms
- [en]
**** Translations
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A collection or mass .
2. [en] A mass of angular volcanic fragment s united by heat ; distinguished from CONGLOMERATE .
3. [en] An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice .
**** Synonyms
- (_collection or mass_ ): agglomeration , collection , mass
**** Translations
[collection or mass]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[geology]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[meteorology] [trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To wind or collect into a ball ; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1789 | author=w:William Gilpin | title=Observations on the River Wye: and Several Parts of South Wales | location=London | publisher=R. Blamire | edition=2nd | section=Section 10, p. 122 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004863361.0001.000
|passage=The bustle of a croud is not ill-adapted to the pencil: but the
management of it requires great artifice. The whole must be massed together,
and considered as one body. ¶ I mean not to have the whole body so
AGGLOMERATED, as to consist of no detached groups: but to have these groups
[...] appear to belong to one whole, by the artifice of composition, and the
effect of light.}}
1. * 1820 , [William Hazlitt] , “Explanations—Conversation on the Drama with Coleridge” in _Dramatic Essays_ London: Scott, 1895, p. [nbsp] 197, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/dramaticessays00lowegoog/page/n235/mode/1up?q=agglomerate </sup>
2. *: His [ [Jean Racine] ’s ] tragedies are not poetry, are not passion, are not imagination: they are a parcel of set speeches, of epigrammatic conceits, of declamatory phrases, without any of the glow, and glancing rapidity, and principle of fusion in the mind of the poet, to AGGLOMERATE them into grandeur, or blend them into harmony.
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1937 | author=w:Claude McKay | title=A Long Way from Home | location=New York | publisher=Arno Press | year_published=1969 | chapter=3 | page=35 | url=https://archive.org/details/longwayfromhome00mcka/page/35/mode/1up?q=agglomerated
|passage=There were few white friends in the social life of the peasants. The
white colony AGGLOMERATED in the towns and the peasants were 80 per cent of a
population of a million.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2009 | author=w:Peter Campion | chapter=Imperium | title=The Lions | page=14 | publisher=University of Chicago Press
|passage=It feels like doing eighty on the freeway / as little towns
AGGLOMERATE and blur:}}
1. [en] To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlement s and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration ).
**** Synonyms
- [collect into a ball] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [gather into a mass] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:pile up or Thesaurus:coalesce
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
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- Polish: [pl]
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*** Derived terms
[en]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
[en]
** Italian
*** Etymology 1
**** Verb
[it]
1. [it]
*** Etymology 2
**** Participle
[it]
1. [it]
** Latin
*** Verb
[la]
1. [la]