cluster

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together

   A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.

   • 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, […]
3. 3

   Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go…

   Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”).

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   1. 4

      To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun sense 1).

      • 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.
   2. 5

      To cover (with clusters)

      To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.

      • The sea is clustered with islands.
   3. 6

      To form a cluster or group

      To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.

      • 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: […]

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