I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cluster bomb (= that sends out smaller bombs when it explodes )
a cluster of stars (= a small group of stars close together in the sky )
▪
He fixed his telescope on a tiny little cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus.
cluster bomb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
globular
▪
Serpens contains a prominent globular cluster , M5, which is not far below naked-eye visibility.
▪
The globular star clusters that surround the Milky Way also seem to come in two age groups.
▪
The only other object of immediate interest is the globular cluster M30, near Zeta.
▪
The main object of binocular interest in Aquarius is the globular cluster M2.
▪
However, Tucana contains the Small Cloud of Magellan and two superb globular clusters .
▪
The globular cluster M53 is in the same field as Alpha.
▪
The main objects of interest in Hercules are the two globular clusters , M13 and M92.
▪
There are various globular clusters in Ophiuchus.
large
▪
New and exciting results were also reported for systems on surfaces, in large clusters and in condensed phases.
open
▪
I mention it here because it and Sirius show the way to the open cluster M50 in Monoceros.
▪
Some open clusters are relatively condensed; others are much more scattered.
▪
The most spectacular binocular object in Gemini is the open cluster M35.
▪
This is one of the brightest of all open clusters .
▪
The Milky Way flows through Auriga, and there are also some fine open clusters here.
▪
Given sufficient magnification, of course, all open clusters can be resolved into stars.
▪
M67 has the reputation of being one of the most ancient of the open clusters .
▪
The sparse open cluster M10 lies near Gamma Scuti.
small
▪
The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters , smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
▪
Trondur reached under the edge of the raft, and broke off a small cluster of barnacles.
▪
The inn was a small cluster of a place, stables, byres, outhouses.
▪
Outside, a small cluster of hardhats glinted in the darkness of the next chamber.
▪
Aesthetically positioned in small clusters , the lodges have been built with one aim in mind.
▪
A small cluster of national agencies exists solely to service the local federations and their programs.
▪
He made a pass across the small cluster of dwellings, wheeled and dipped down for a second pass.
▪
In addition, IDUs often share needles with the same small cluster of people, keeping infection within a limited circle.
■ NOUN
bomb
▪
By now, the police were chasing protesters into various neighbourhoods, and throwing cluster bombs of rubber pellets at locals.
▪
It will also strongly criticise the use of cluster bombs .
▪
The planes were reported to have used cluster bombs and also to have strafed roads and buildings.
▪
The MoD had to spend £20m upgrading and ordering extra stocks of the cluster bombs for the Kosovo campaign.
gene
▪
The two clusters evolved by duplication of an ancestral gene cluster before the divergence of the human and great ape lineages.
▪
Few, for instance, are found near the critical regions known as homeobox gene clusters .
headache
▪
The pathophysiology of cluster headache is not established.
▪
Propranolol, which is used so commonly in migraine prophylaxis, is not beneficial in most cluster headache patients.
▪
There is concern that p blockers might accentuate the bradycardia, which has been observed during attacks of cluster headache .
▪
This has been reported to abort cluster headache in small groups of patients with spontaneous or nitroglycerin-induced attacks.
▪
If any one of these is present, the diagnosis of cluster headache is strongly confirmed.
▪
This agent may be used in the cluster headache patient, as described in the discussion of migraine prophylaxis.
■ VERB
form
▪
These small variations would explain why galaxies formed into clusters , and stars into galaxies.
▪
For a striking effect, several stems should be grown together to form a cluster .
▪
To overcome these problems, small schools in some rural areas have formed cooperative clusters whereby teachers provide curriculum support for each other.
▪
The daughter nuclei are solids and form cationic clusters with water in the atmosphere.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
A cluster of people, all anxious to shake his hand, formed around the speaker.
▪
From the airplane we could already see little clusters of houses.
▪
It's an attractive shrub with dark shiny leaves, that has clusters of white flowers in early June.
▪
Most galaxies are found in clusters rather than in isolation.
▪
Some relatives were standing in a cluster around her hospital bed.
▪
The adult female lays large clusters of eggs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
All this time, the other cell clusters remained tiny and inactive.
▪
Each community organized employers by industry clusters.
▪
Each zone typically includes a cluster of two or three secondary schools with their supporting primaries and special educational needs provision.
▪
The work crews and engineers stand in clusters, their yellow reflective safety jackets glowing eerily amid the dusky floodlighting.
▪
This will enable distributed computing over heterogeneous platforms, from workstations and clusters to large-scale, high-performance systems.
▪
To overcome these problems, small schools in some rural areas have formed cooperative clusters whereby teachers provide curriculum support for each other.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪
They clustered around his ankles, hiding his plimsolls entirely from view.
▪
They clustered around and demanded to know who each one was.
▪
The excavation of a village may reveal a number of small buildings clustered around one much larger building.
▪
It is quite something to discover giant tubeworms clustered around warm water flowing from the seafloor.
▪
This research explores the discourses of class in terms of the meanings clustering around the ideas of work and of community.
▪
Several estimates of the extra wage to compensate for risk cluster around $ 200, 000 per death in 1967 dollars.
▪
The nomes were clustered around a white heap on the floor.
▪
On this basis, the hypothesis would be that religious beliefs tend to cluster around particular compounds of limitation.
round
▪
Voices raised with excitement came from a fourth group, clustered round the sink in the corner of the room.
▪
In my day - why, Sècheron would have been swallowed up by inner suburbs clustering round the old U.N. building.
▪
They must have been the Iron Age equivalent of the mediaeval castle with the village and everything clustered round .
▪
Their seven children, carved in high relief in diminishing size according to age, clustered round their feet like rabbits.
▪
She passed through the doorway, her eyes raking through the little knot of people clustered round it.
▪
The massive corrugated-iron sheds towered above the mean houses clustering round them.
▪
Marie had stepped off the platform and into the salon and people were clustering round her, offering congratulations.
together
▪
Companies cluster together anxious not to miss out on the latest developments and the growing pool of scientifically-skilled labour.
▪
Is it by clustering together to elect one of their own in isolation?
▪
The more frequent words are then clustered together based on a similarity metric.
▪
Also, those two-and three-letter words that cluster together throughout a document.
▪
Such places have become very popular growth points for industries which cluster together at them.
▪
So you start to see all sorts of reading and writing problems clustered together and addressed with this language.
▪
How exactly might mutually resembling individuals find themselves clustered together , in local aggregations?
▪
The rich are likely to cluster together in suburbs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Children had clustered outside the shop window to look at the toys on display.
▪
The nurses were clustered together in the corridor, giggling about something.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Also, those two-and three-letter words that cluster together throughout a document.
▪
It was still raining, the soldiers were still clustered by the partition, women and girls still huddled-waiting, trembling.
▪
So you start to see all sorts of reading and writing problems clustered together and addressed with this language.
▪
The third is for companies to acquire software for profiling, cross-analysing and clustering the census variables against their own customer records.
▪
Their seven children, carved in high relief in diminishing size according to age, clustered round their feet like rabbits.
▪
They clustered around his ankles, hiding his plimsolls entirely from view.
▪
Voices raised with excitement came from a fourth group, clustered round the sink in the corner of the room.