to constellate

Examples

• All

• I was given an office up on the seventh floor, the starry seventh, where the brightest stars are constellated.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Quinn's thesis is that his so-called "Southeast Syndrome," a "resurgence of Indian identity or 'pan-Indianism' among descendants and others in the Southeast who constellate through recruitment," has had "at least two negative consequences" (p. 149).

  Academic text (1991)

• They, they can constellate into complex patterns of self organization.

• They they can constellate into complex patterns of self organization.

  Tim Ferriss

• The Southeast Syndrome, this new resurgence of Indian identity or "pan-Indianism" among descendants and others in the Southeast who constellate through recruitment, has had at least two negative consequences.

  Academic text (1990)

• Indeed, unless we positively constellate the dispersive, transgressive, character-subverting elements of a text, like David Copperfield, that centers on character, we are handicapped in making sense of the text, not to speak of its self-subversive components.

  Academic text (1990)

• Thus, for example, empty snail shells constellated around a bamboo pole (Fig. 5) suggest bodies voided of vital fluids, drained of life.

  Academic text (2005)

• Instead, Renger-Patzsch constellates groups of pictures exclusively through formal rhyming, and these rhymed constellations are almost always self-referential, in that they suggest to the viewer the manner in which the visual information is to be assimilated.

  Academic text (2000)

• In the night sky, the stars constellate to form recognizable patterns like Orion and Ursa Major.

• During the event, many participants constellated around shared interests in astronomy and space exploration.

Synonyms

F

to flock

vsto constellate

74 2.0

To move together in large numbers

describe forming a fixed patterned group rather than a moving crowd

C

to cluster

vsto constellate

41 3.5

To come together in a small group or make people do the same

arrange into a patterned group like stars

C

to clump

vsto constellate

7 4.4

To come together into a small, close group

form a looser grouped pattern instead of a dense bunch

A

to agglomerate

vsto constellate

1 8.4

To join together to form a mass or cluster

form separate grouped pattern rather than one solid mass

Antonyms

D

to disperse

104 4.4

To cause people and things, like a crowd or fog, to spread over a wide area

D

to dissolve

43 3.9

To slowly disappear or become less clear

How Clustered

to constellate

1 9.6

to concentrate

130 3.6

to cluster

41 3.5

to scatter

187 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology