agglomerate

n. 大团, 大块 a. 成块的, 聚结的 vt. 使成团, 使成块, 使聚结 vi. 成团, 成块, 聚结

发音

UK /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ˌɹeɪt/
UK /əˈɡlɒm(ə)ɹət/
US /əˈɡlɑ.mɚˌeɪt/
US /əˈɡlɑm(ə)ɹət/

词形变化

agglomerates 复数 agglomerated agglomerates 三单 agglomerates agglomerating agglomerating 现在分词 agglomerated 过去式 agglomerated 过去分词 more agglomerate 比较级 most agglomerate 最高级

别名

aglomerate

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A collection or mass.

  2. 2.

    A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.

    集块岩

    地质
  3. 3.

    An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.

    气象
v.
  1. 1.

    To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.

    及物/不及物

    1820, William Hazlitt, “Explanations—Conversation on the Drama with Coleridge” in Dramatic Essays London: Scott, 1895, p. 197, 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.

  2. 2.

    To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).

adj.
  1. 1.

    collected into a ball, heap, or mass

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

pile heap mound cumulation cumulus

上位词 4

collection accumulation aggregation assemblage

下位词 10

shock stack pyre stockpile compost heap dunghill funeral pyre midden muckheap muckhill
动词

上位词 4

bunch bundle cluster clump
形容词

同义词 2

agglomerative clustered

近义相关 1

collective

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin glomus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin glomerō Latin agglomerō Latin agglomerātusbor. English agglomerate From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).

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