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CONGLOMERATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

Synonyms:

conglomerate; empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("conglomerate" is a kind of...):

corp; corporation (a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conglomerate"):

publishing conglomerate; publishing empire (a conglomerate of publishing companies)

Derivation:

conglomerate (composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A composite rock made up of particles of varying size

Synonyms:

conglomerate; pudding stone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("conglomerate" is a kind of...):

rock; stone (material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust)

Derivation:

conglomerate (composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass

Example:

the conglomerate peoples of New England

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

combined (made or joined or united into one)

Derivation:

conglomerate (a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization)

conglomerate (a composite rock made up of particles of varying size)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collect or gather

Example:

The work keeps piling up

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; conglomerate; cumulate; gather; pile up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "conglomerate" is one way to...):

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conglomerate"):

backlog (accumulate and create a backlog)

accrete (grow or become attached by accretion)

drift (be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

The crowds conglomerate in the streets

Derivation:

conglomeration (an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass)

conglomeration (a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together)

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