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ALL TOGETHER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of a group whose members acted or were acted upon collectively and when 'all' and 'together' can be separated by other words
Example:
the books all lay together...
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Sense 2
Meaning:
All at the same time
Example:
Let's say 'Yes!' all at once
Synonyms:
all at once; all together
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Context examples:
They ought to be setting off for Uppercross by one, and in the meanwhile were to be all together, and out of doors as long as they could.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Arouse all together, mes enfants, under pain of my displeasure.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He bent low beside her as he spoke; she took his hand, and looking at him through her tears, said hoarsely:—No, I shall not forget, for it is well that I remember; and with it I have so much in memory of you that is sweet, that I take it all together.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A dendritic cell vaccine consisting of dendritic cells (DCs) electroporated with mRNA encoding three adjuvants, CD40 ligand (CD40L), a constitutively active TLR4, and CD70 (all together termed TriMix); coelectroporated with full-length mRNA encoding MAGE-A3, MAGE-C2, Tyrosinase and gp100; and linked to DC-LAMP, with potential immunostimulating activity.
(Autologous TriMix-DC Melanoma Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
I had left them all together.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Folk were weary of the war, for we had been at it for eight years, taking Holland, and Spain, and France each in turn and all together.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, here are my sister Price's children; take them all together, I dare say nobody would believe what a sum they cost Sir Thomas every year, to say nothing of what I do for them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"We must have our sing, in the good old way, for we are all together again once more," said Jo, feeling that a good shout would be a safe and pleasant vent for the jubilant emotions of her soul.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We had half-an-hour's talk, all together; and I asked her about the twins, who, she said, were grown great creatures; and after Master and Miss Micawber, whom she described as absolute giants, but they were not produced on that occasion.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
