Conglomerate



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 集聚成团
• ［英］ v. 集聚成团 ( to form into a rounded compact mass)
• ［记］ con＋glomer ( 球) ＋ate -> 成为一球 -> 集聚
• ［同］ 同根词: agglomerate ( 使凝聚)
• ［例］ Everyone conglomerated around me to hear the gossip.

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Etymology: Latin conglomeratus, past participle of conglomerare to roll together, from com- + glomerare to wind into a ball, from glomer-, glomus ball — more at clam
• Date: 1572
• made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds

II. verb (-ated; -ating)

• Date: 1642
• intransitive verb
  • to gather into a mass or coherent whole <numbers of dull people conglomerated round her — Virginia Woolf
• transitive verb
  • accumulate
• ? conglomerative adjective
• ? conglomerator noun

III. noun

• Date: 1818
• 1. a composite mass or mixture; especially rock composed of rounded fragments varying from small pebbles to large boulders in a cement (as of hardened clay)
• 2. a widely diversified corporation
• ? conglomeratic adjective

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