Cluster vs Bluster - What's the difference?
cluster | bluster |
A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
* Spenser
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* Milton
* Shakespeare
(astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
(phonetics) A group of consonants.
(computing) A group of computers that work together.
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
(statistics) A significant subset within a population.
(military) Set of bombs or mines.
(army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
To form a cluster or group.
* Tennyson
* Foxe
Pompous, officious talk.
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Fitful noise and violence.
To speak or protest loudly.
To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
* Burke
* Sir T. More
* Fuller
To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between cluster and bluster
is that cluster is cluster (group of galaxies or stars) while bluster is pompous, officious talk.As a verb bluster is
to speak or protest loudly.cluster
English
Noun
(en noun)- a cluster of islands
- Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, / Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
The Dust of Conflict, passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters , from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0, passage=Charlie Mulgrew’s delicious deadball delivery was attacked by a cluster of green and white shirts at McGregor’s back post but Ledley got up higher and with more purpose than anyone else to thump a header home from five yards.}}
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}
- As bees / Pour forth their populous youth about the hive / In clusters .
- We loved him; but, like beasts / And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters , / Who did hoot him out o' the city.
Derived terms
* cluster analysis * clustering * cluster bomb * globular cluster * open cluster * star clusterVerb
(en verb)- The children clustered around the puppy.
- His sunny hair / Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
- the princes of the country clustering together
Anagrams
* * English collective nouns ----bluster
English
Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster .}}
Synonyms
* (pompous talk) bombastVerb
- When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster , which often cowed the meek.
- Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
- He bloweth and blustereth out his abominable blasphemy.
- As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
- And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.