Conclave vs Clump - What's the difference?
conclave | clump | Related terms |
The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals.
* (Robert South)
A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
* Hawthorne
A dull thud.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
English onomatopoeias
Conclave is a related term of clump.
As nouns the difference between conclave and clump
is that conclave is conclave while clump is a cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.As a verb clump is
to form clusters or lumps.conclave
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.
- The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.
Derived terms
* in conclave: engaged in a secret meeting; said of a group of people.clump
English
Noun
(en noun)- a clump of shrubby trees