Congregate vs Huddle - What's the difference?
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(rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
* 1605 , (Francis Bacon), The Advancement of Learning , Book II, Chapter IX:
(transitive): To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
* Hooker,
* Coleridge,
* Milton,
(intransitive): To come together; to assemble; to meet.
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a dense and disorderly crowd
(American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
To get together and discuss.
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
(American football) To form a huddle.
To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
* (John Locke)
To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).
* J. H. Newman
* (John Dryden)
* (Jonathan Swift)
Congregate is a related term of huddle.
As an adjective congregate
is (rare) collective; assembled; compact.As a verb congregate
is (transitive): to collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.As a proper noun huddle is
.congregate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.
Verb
(congregat)- Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
- Cold congregates all bodies.
- The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.
- Even there where merchants most do congregate .
Synonyms
*huddle
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(huddl)- During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
- George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.
- Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.
- Huddle up a peace.
- Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
- Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.