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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | nurture, care for |
| Synonyms: | breed, bring up, cultivate, develop, drag up, fetch up, foster, group, grow, nourish, nurse, plant, produce, propagate, provide, rear, sow, suckle, support, train, wean |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | abandon, ignore, neglect, repress, suppress |
| Main Entry: | round up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | collect, gather |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring in, bring together, cluster, drive, group, herd, marshal, muster, rally |
| Antonyms: | disperse, scatter |
| Main Entry: | separate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | isolate, segregate |
| Synonyms: | assign, break up, classify, close off, comb, compartment, compartmentalize, cut off, discriminate, distribute, draw apart, group, insulate, interval, intervene, island, order, put on one side, rope off, seclude, sequester, sift, single out, sort, space, split up, stand between, winnow |
| Antonyms: | desegregate, join, unite |
| Main Entry: | sort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | place in order |
| Synonyms: | arrange, assort, button down, catalogue, categorize, choose, class, classify, comb, cull, distribute, divide, file, grade, group, order, peg, pick, pigeonhole, put down as, put down for, put in order, put in shape, put to rights, rank, riddle, screen, select, separate, sift, size up, systematize, tab, typecast, winnow |
| Antonyms: | disorder, disorganize |
| Main Entry: | split up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep apart; segregate; separate |
| Synonyms: | break off, break up, come apart, detach, disband, disconnect, divide, divorce, go separate ways, group, part, part company, rope off, seclude, sever, sort, stand between, undo |
| Main Entry: | assort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrange or order |
| Synonyms: | categorize, class, classify, group, rank, suit, type |
| Main Entry: | methodize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrange in order |
| Synonyms: | align, array, class, classify, clear the decks, dispose, file, fix up, form, group, line up, order, organize, police, police up, position, put in good shape, put in order, put to rights, range, rank, regulate, sort, spruce, spruce up, systematize, systemize, tidy, whip into shape |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Assemblage. |
| Category: | 3. COLLECTIVE ORDER |
| Synonyms: |
-verbs
[be or come together] assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble., [get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get in, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.
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| Antonyms: | dispersion |
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| Concept: | Order. |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
| Synonyms: |
-verbs
be in order, become in order; form, fall in, draw up; arrrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's place, take one's place, take one's rank; rally round., adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
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| Antonyms: | disorder |
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