cluster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English cluster (“bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”) [and other forms], from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klas-, *klus- (“to clump, lump together”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; to clench; to amass”)) + *-þrą (suffix forming nouns denoting an instrument or tool). The English word is probably a doublet of clot.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Dutch klister (“cluster”) (dialectal)
* Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”)
* Low German Kluuster (“cluster”)
* Swedish kluster (“cluster”)
Inflected forms:
form: clusters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clusters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clustering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clustered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clustered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: cluster
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: cluster
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: clustered
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: cluster
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: clusterest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: clustered
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: clusteredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: clusters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clustereth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: clustered
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: cluster
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: clustered
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: cluster
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: clustered
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: cluster
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: clustering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clustered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
examples: a cluster of islands
A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.
Her deeds vvere like great gluſters of ripe grapes, / VVhich load the bunches of the fruitfull vine: / Offring to fall into each mouth that gapes, / And fill the ſame vvith ſtore of timely vvine.
VVoe is mee, for I am as when they haue gathered the ſummer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluſter to eate: my ſoule deſired the firſt ripe fruit.
The Father of Nic. Fontanus ſavv five Vertebræ or VVhirle-bones of the Spina in a cluſter like a round ball, in the Body of a Porter that carried burthens.
Then I ſavv in my Dream, that theſe good Companions, vvhen Chriſtian vvas gone dovvn to the bottom of the Hill, gave him a loaf of Bread, a bottle of VVine, and a cluſter of Raiſins; and then he vvent on his vvay.
[A]ll the cluſter of Iſlands lying South of the Audeman [i.e., Andaman] Iſlands are called by our Seamen the Nicobar Iſlands.
Spread all thy Purple Cluſters, Tempting Vine, / And Thou, once Dreaded Foe, Bright Beauty, ſhine, […]
Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs, […]
Charlie Mulgrew's delicious deadball delivery was attacked by a cluster of green and white shirts at [Allan] McGregor's back post but [Joe] Ledley got up higher and with more purpose than anyone else to thump a header home from five yards.
The easiest way is to fly from Los Angeles to Christchurch, New Zealand—a journey of 17 hours, if you're lucky—and then to McMurdo, a charmless cluster of buildings that houses most of the southern continent's thousand or so seasonal residents and both of its ATMs.
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
examples: The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.
My fellow biotic: You have been selected to receive this transmission because of our shared plight. Few understand us, fewer tolerate us. We must stand together. We must build our own new world. Come. Join us in the Hawking Eta cluster. Only as one body can we right the wrongs done to our kind.
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
tags: physical
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
examples: A computer cluster is a collection of two or more computers used to execute a given problem or section. Typically, in a computer cluster, the interconnection network tying the computers together is a local area network (LAN). […] The computers in the cluster communicate among themselves and among the shared memory.
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
examples: A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
examples: examples of clusters would include in accordance with, so far, and the results of
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
examples: The word scrub begins with a cluster of three consonants.
gloss: A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
pos: noun
gloss: A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.
pos: noun
examples: VVe lou'd him, / But like Beaſts / And Covvardly Nobles, / Gaue vvay vnto your Cluſters, vvho did hoote / Him out o' th' Citty.
[T]hey all alight, and then they go to the ſecond gate, and if peraduenture they cannot get in, they ſit there vvithout, as Bees doe in the Sunne, all in a cluſter.
As Bees / In ſpring time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, / Poure forth their populous youth about the Hive / In cluſters; they among freſh dews and flowers / Flie to and fro, […]
Earless ghost swift moths become "invisible" to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
gloss: To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun sense 1).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The consciousness of such an action will give her features a nobler life on this illustrious day, than all the jewels that can hang in her hair or can be clustered in her bosom.
Not less the bee would range her cells, / The furzy prickle fire the dells, / The foxglove cluster dappled bells.
The queen-bee of the children-swarm, the wise little Louise, sate herself down at the window, and four other little heads clustered themselves about her, fervent and inquisitive, and almost pushing her away in their impatient zeal to get a peep at the arrival.
gloss: To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sea is clustered with islands.
gloss: To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The children clustered around the puppy.
[T]he fruite cluſtereth togyther lyke to ſmal grapes, which in the beginning is greene, and afterwarde when it is ripe, al blacke.
VVoes cluſter; rare are ſolitary VVoes; / They love a Train; they tread each other's Heel: […]
I met a little cottage girl, / She was eight years old, she said; / Her hair was thick with many a curl / That cluster'd round her head.
Oh grief to think, that grapes of gall / Should cluster round thine healthiest shoot!
[H]is sunny hair / Clustered about his temples like a God's: […]
The luscious fruitage clustereth mellowly, / Goldenkernelled, goldencored, / Sunset-ripened above on the tree.
While their soft and humid kisses / To her conscious lips they press, / Like a spiral sunbeam floating, / Clustereth every golden tress; […]
It is Thou, Lord, who hast put far from us these sorrows, who still sparest every member of our household, the olive-branches round about our table, and the vine that clustereth on the walls of our house.
Around the little bud clustereth volumes of high and pure thoughts.
All that is hard and harsh, and graceless in nature clustereth around her.
On the page, "Me" [a poem by Rachel Blau DuPlessis] is irregular but—except for a prominent drawing of a two-toned hieroglyphic eye—not radically unusual: the lines are consistently left-justified; their length varies from one to a dozen syllables; they cluster in stanzalike units anywhere from one to six lines long that are separated by consistent spaces.
Synonyms: constellate
Derived words: Beowulf cluster
bicluster
Chevrel cluster
cluster A personality disorder
cluster-ball
clusterball
cluster ballooning
cluster bomb
cluster B personality disorder
clustercentric
cluster chord
cluster compound
clustercore
cluster C personality disorder
cluster development
cluster F-bomb
cluster feeding
cluster fig
cluster fly
cluster-fuck
cluster fuck
clusterful
clustergram
clusterhead
cluster headache
clusterin
clusterisation
clusterization
clusterize
clusterless
clusterlike
clustermap
cluster munition
cluster of differentiation
cluster of galaxies
clusterogram
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cluster picking
cluster pine
cluster poison
cluster research
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cluster set
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cluster state
cluster variable
clusterwide
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clustery
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clutchable
cocluster
consonant cluster
constraint cluster
decluster
dicluster
flower cluster
galaxy cluster
globular cluster
glycocluster
grapheme cluster
heterocluster
homocluster
hypercluster
intercluster
intracluster
iron-sulfur cluster
iron-sulphur cluster
macrocluster
megacluster
mesocluster
metacluster
metallocluster
microcluster
minicluster
multicluster
nanocluster
open cluster
phenocluster
phosphocluster
protocluster
serocluster
silver cluster cactus
star cluster
subcluster
super cluster
supercluster
thorn cluster
tone cluster
twisted cluster bean
uncluster
volatility cluster
miscluster
clusterability
clusterable
clustered
clusterer
clustering
recluster
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: բույլ
roman: buyl
lang: Armenian
word: ողկույզ
roman: oġkuyz
lang: Bulgarian
word: грозд
roman: grozd
lang: Bulgarian
word: кичур
roman: kičur
lang: Bulgarian
word: китка
roman: kitka
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 串
roman: chuàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 叢 /丛
roman: cóng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 簇
roman: cù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 堆
roman: duī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 塊 /块
roman: kuài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 群
roman: qún
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 束
roman: shù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 团
roman: tuán
lang: Czech
word: shluk
lang: Danish
word: klase
lang: Danish
word: klynge
lang: Danish
word: sværm
lang: Esperanto
word: fasko
lang: Finnish
word: kimppu
lang: Finnish
word: ryhmä
lang: Finnish
word: rykelmä
lang: Finnish
word: rypäs
lang: Finnish
word: ryväs
lang: Finnish
word: parvi
lang: Finnish
word: terttu
lang: French
word: groupe
lang: Galician
word: fato
lang: Galician
word: legumia
lang: Galician
word: morea
lang: Galician
word: rebullón
lang: Galician
word: riola
lang: Georgian
word: კონა
roman: ḳona
lang: German
word: Anhäufung
lang: German
word: Büschel
lang: German
word: Gruppe
lang: German
word: Haufen
lang: German
word: Schwarm
lang: Greek
word: σύμπλεγμα
roman: sýmplegma
lang: Greek
word: συστάδα
roman: systáda
lang: Hungarian
word: csoport
lang: Hungarian
word: nyaláb
lang: Ingrian
word: kimppu
lang: Ingrian
word: kärkkä
lang: Irish
word: braisle
lang: Italian
word: gruppo
lang: Javanese
word: dhapur
lang: Central Kurdish
word: دەستە
roman: deste
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ھێشوو
roman: hêşû
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: deste
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: gurz
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: qeft
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: wîşî
lang: Low German
word: Kluuster
lang: Macedonian
word: сноп
roman: snop
lang: Māori
word: pōī
lang: Māori
word: pūrei
lang: Māori
word: pūtoitanga
lang: Māori
word: tūhononga
lang: Marshallese
word: bukun
lang: Persian
word: خوشه
roman: xuše
lang: Polish
word: skupisko
lang: Portuguese
word: aglomeração
lang: Portuguese
word: aglomerado
lang: Portuguese
word: agrupamento
lang: Portuguese
word: conjunto
lang: Romanian
word: grup
lang: Romanian
word: grupă
lang: Romanian
word: mănunchi
lang: Russian
word: кисть
roman: kistʹ
lang: Russian
word: пучо́к
roman: pučók
lang: Russian
word: рой
roman: roj
lang: Russian
word: скопле́ние
roman: skoplénije
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: го̀мила
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gòmila
lang: Spanish
word: aglomeración
lang: Spanish
word: agrupamiento
lang: Spanish
word: amontonamiento
lang: Spanish
word: cluster
lang: Spanish
word: clúster
lang: Spanish
word: clóster
lang: Spanish
word: acúmulo
lang: Spanish
word: cúmulo
lang: Swedish
word: kluster
lang: Tagalog
word: kumpol
lang: Walloon
word: troke
lang: Welsh
word: clwstwr
lang: Welsh
word: cwlwm (clwm)
lang: Welsh
word: swp
lang: Arabic
word: عُنْقُود
roman: ʕunqūd
lang: Bulgarian
word: грозд
roman: grozd
lang: Czech
word: hrozen
lang: Danish
word: klase
lang: Dutch
word: tros
lang: Esperanto
word: traŭbo
lang: Finnish
word: rypäle
lang: French
word: grappe
lang: French
word: régime
lang: Galician
word: acio
lang: Galician
word: bangallo
lang: Galician
word: cangallo
lang: Galician
word: cango
lang: Galician
word: carrela
lang: Galician
word: escádea
lang: Galician
word: esgaro
lang: Galician
word: garo
lang: Galician
word: gazo
lang: Georgian
word: მტევანი
roman: mṭevani
lang: German
word: Traube
lang: Hungarian
word: fürt
lang: Italian
word: grappolo
lang: Latin
word: racēmus
lang: Macedonian
word: грозд
roman: grozd
lang: Norwegian
word: klase
lang: Polish
word: grono
lang: Romanian
word: ciorchine
lang: Russian
word: гроздь
roman: grozdʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: grozd
lang: Spanish
word: racimo
lang: Spanish
word: piña
lang: Swedish
word: klase
lang: Turkish
word: salkım
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صالقم
roman: salkım
lang: Walloon
word: troke
lang: Welsh
word: grawnswp
lang: Welsh
word: swp