English words and phrases

conterminate^†, conterminous, conterminable^†.

ended &c v.; at an end; settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest; conclusive.

penultimate; last but one, last but two, &c unbegun, uncommenced^†; fresh.

equidistance^†, bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm, midriff; intermediate &c 228.

procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array.

pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of ancestors; strain.

rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade.

arrange in a series, collate &c n.; string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.

discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose &c 228; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect &c (disjoin) 44; dissever.

73} assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation^†; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement^†; team; concourse, conflux^†, congregation, contesseration^†, convergence &c 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] &c (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote^†; conclave &c (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark.

miscellany, collectanea^†; museum, menagerie &c (store) 636; museology^†.

crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue^†, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo^†; bunch, drive, force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda^†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment &c (combatants) 726; host &c (multitude) 102; populousness.

clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c (party) 712.

volley, shower, storm, cloud.

group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine^†, fasces^†, bale; seron^†, seroon^†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel^†, stack, sheaf, haycock^†; fascicle, fascicule^†, fasciculus [Lat.], gavel, hattock^†, stook^†.

accumulation &c (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau^†, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing^†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation^†, cumulation; glomeration^†, agglomeration; conglobation^†; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation^†, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.], spicilegium^†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity &c (greatness) 31.

collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.

V. assemble [be or come together], 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, 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 &c (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Adj. assembled &c v.; closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative.

Phr. the plot thickens; acervatim [Lat.]; tibi seris tibi metis [Lat.].
73. Nonassemblage. Dispersion -- N. {opp.

72} dispersion; disjunction &c 44; divergence &c 291; aspersion; scattering &c v.; dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment &c 786; spread, respersion^†, circumfusion^†, interspersion, spargefaction^†; affusion^†.

waifs and estrays^†, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra [Lat.], [Horace]; waveson^†.

V. disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion &c 786; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow^†; ted; spirtle^†, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse^†, intersperse; set abroach^†, circumfuse^†.

turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds; spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.

kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.

manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.

similarity &c 17.

77} inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception.

composition &c (inclusion in a compound) 54.

V. be included in &c; come under, fall under, range under; belong to, pertain to; range with; merge in.

include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose &c (circumscribe) 229; embody, encircle.

reckon among, enumerate among, number among; refer to; place with, arrange with, place under; take into account.

Adj. included, including &c v.; inclusive; congener, congenerous; of the same class &c 75; encircling.

Phr. a maximis ad minima [Lat.], et hoc genus omne [Lat.], &c etc.; et coetera [Lat.].
77. Exclusion -- N. {opp.

76} exclusion &c 55.

79} generality, generalization; universality; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness^†; dragnet; common run; worldwideness^†.

everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N or M, all sorts.

prevalence, run.

render general &c adj.; generalize.

universal; catholic, catholical^†; common, worldwide; ecumenical, oecumenical^†; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with.

Pan-American, Anglican^†, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic; panharmonic^†.

every, all; unspecified, impersonal.

customary &c (habitual) 613.

Adv. whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all.

generally &c adj.; always, for better for worse; in general, generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long run &c (on an average) 29.

78} speciality, specialite^†; individuality, individuity^†; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy &c (tendency) 176; personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness &c adj.^†; singularity &c (unconformity) 83; reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia.

particulars, details, items, counts; minutiae.

I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself.

descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the point.

this, that; yon, yonder.

each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively, each to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice [Lat.], pro re nata [Lat.].

namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia [Lat.], e.g., i.e., videlicet, viz.; to wit.

Phr. le style est l'homme meme [Fr.].
5. ORDER AS REGARDS CATEGORIES
80. Normality -- N. normality, normalcy, normalness^†; familiarity, naturalness; commonness (frequency) 136; rule, standard (conformity) 82; customary (habit) 613; standard, pattern (prototype) 22.

V. normalize, standardize.

Adj. normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual (frequency) 136;
81. Multiformity -- N. multiformity, omniformity^†; variety, diversity; multifariousness &c adj.; varied assortment.

dissimilarity &c 18.

jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant; inharmonious, unmatched, unrelated, nonuniform.

omniform^†, omnigenous^†, omnifarious^†; protean (form) 240.

Phr. harmoniously confused [Pope]; variety's the very spice of life [Cowper].
82. Conformity -- N. {opp.

83} conformity, conformance; observance; habituation.

naturalization; conventionality &c (custom) 613; agreement &c 23.

example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification, illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation.

standard, model, pattern &c (prototype) 22.

rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order; Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.

be regular &c adj.; move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules, obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom, fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups [Fr.]; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track &c (habit) 613; keep one in countenance.

exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance &c n.; elucidate, explain.

Adj. conformable to rule; regular &c 136; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter; en regle [Fr.], selon les regles [Fr.], well regulated, orderly; symmetric &c 242.

conventional &c (customary) 613; of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.

in the order of the day; naturalized.

typical, normal, nominal, formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean.

secundum artem [Lat.], shipshape, technical.

exempIe [Fr.].

illustrative, in point.

Adv. conformably &c adj.; by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as usual, ad instar [Lat.], instar omnium [Lat.]; more solito [Lat.], more-majorum.

for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma [Lat.], for form's sake, by the card.

invariably, &c (uniformly) 16.

for example, exempli gratia [Lat.], e.g.; inter alia [Lat.], among other things; for instance.

The nail that sticks up hammered down [Jap.Tr.]; Tall poppy syndrome; Stick your neck out and it may get cut off.

82} nonconformity &c 82; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity^†, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness &c adj.^†; exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism^†, eccentricity, bizarrerie^†, oddity, je ne sais quoi [Fr.], monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter [U.S.].

individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.

aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo &c (qualification) 469.

nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch^†, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae [Lat.], rara avis [Lat.], queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis [Lat.], crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid [Lat.], hermaphrodite.

[Mythical animals] phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary^†; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk^†; unicorn; Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders [Othello]; teratology.

[unconformable to the surroundings] fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.

V. be uncomformable &c adj.; abnormalize^†; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description.

Adj. uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous^†; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.

unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful &c 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre [Fr.], out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis [Lat.]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues [Fr.], preternatural; denaturalized^†.

heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal^†; asymmetric &c 243; adelomorphous^†, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous^†.

qualified &c 469.

singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.

newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.

however, yet, but.

once in a blue moon, once in a million years.

Int. what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?; Sacre bleu [Fr.].

Phr. never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like.

I could hardly believe it; I saw it, but I didn't believe it.

NUMBER
1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT

sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator^†; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple [Math.]; fraction, rational number; surd, irrational number; transcendental number; mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair; reciprocal; totient^†.

binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number [Comp.].

permutation, combination, variation; election.

ratio, proportion, comparison &c 464; progression; arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression^†; percentage, permilage.

figurate numbers^†, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers.

power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus, base.

differential, integral, fluxion^†, fluent.

proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric^†, differential, fluxional^†, integral, totitive^†.

positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.