different between aggregate vs grove

English

Etymology

From Latin aggreg?tus, perfect passive participle of aggreg? (“I flock together”), from ag- (combining form of ad (“to, toward”)) + greg? (“I flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious.

Pronunciation

Noun and adjective

• enPR: ?'gr?g?t, IPA^(key): /?æ?????t/

Verb

• enPR: ?'gr?g?t, IPA^(key): /?æ?????e?t/

Noun

aggregate (countable and uncountable, plural aggregates)

1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
   • 1898, Arthur Berry, A Short History of Astronomy Chapter 12 - Herschel

     If the nebulosity were due to an aggregate of stars so far off as to be separately indistinguishable, then the central body would have to be a star of almost incomparably greater dimensions than an ordinary star; if, on the other hand, the central body were of dimensions comparable with those of an ordinary star, the nebulosity must be due to something other than a star cluster.

2. A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
   • 1847, William Black, A Practical Treatise on Brewing : Calculating Lengths and Gravities

     This in the second boiling will be replaced by nearly an equal quantity of worts, of the same gravity as turned out of the copper, which, in making the calculation, is to be deducted from the aggregate of the second worts, and so on with a third wort if necessary.

3. (mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
4. (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
5. (sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores
   • 12 December 2016, Associated Press, Brazil and Argentina reportedly to play friendly at MCG in 2017

     Brazil won the first series 2-0 on aggregate before Argentina got revenge in 2012 via a penalty shootout.

6. (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
7. Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
   • 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers Chapter 21

     "Yes sair," returned the Frenchman, whose prominent eyes were watching the precarious footsteps of the beast he rode, as it picked its dangerous way among the roots of trees, holes, log bridges, and sloughs that formed the aggregate of the highway.
8. (Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.

Synonyms

• (mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars): cluster
• (attribute of the sentient being in Buddhism): skandha

Translations

Derived terms

• aggregational
• in aggregate

See also

• composite
• conglomerate
• twelve-tone technique
• serialism

References

• DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN, Ch. 6.

Adjective

aggregate (comparative more aggregate, superlative most aggregate)

1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
   • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War Chapter 33 The Northern Operations from January to April, 1901

     All over the country small British columns had been operating during these months--operations which were destined to increase in scope and energy as the cold weather drew in. The weekly tale of prisoners and captures, though small for any one column, gave the aggregate result of a considerable victory.

2. Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
3. Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.

4. (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
5. Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
6. United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.

Translations

Verb

aggregate (third-person singular simple present aggregates, present participle aggregating, simple past and past participle aggregated)

1. (transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.

   The aggregated soil.

2. (archaic, transitive) To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
3. (transitive) To amount in the aggregate to.

   There are ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.

Antonyms

• segregate

Translations

References

• aggregate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Verb

aggregate

1. second-person plural present indicative of aggregare
2. second-person plural imperative of aggregare
3. feminine plural of aggregato

Latin

Verb

aggreg?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of aggreg?

English

Etymology

From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English gr?f, gr?fa (“grove; copse”); compare English groove. Related to Old English gr?f, gr?fe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”) and Old English gr?fa (“thicket”). More at greave.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??o?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Noun

grove (plural groves)

1. A small forest.
2. An orchard of fruit trees.
3. (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
4. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

Derived terms

Related terms

• mangrove

Translations

See also

• thicket
• copse
• spinney

Verb

grove (third-person singular simple present groves, present participle groving, simple past and past participle groved)

1. To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
   • 1841, R, Sapp, Orchard Lake, in L. L. Hamline (editor), The Ladies Repository, Volume 1, page 165,

     It is called "Orchard Lake," from the fact, that near the centre is an island embracing an area of about fifty acres of land, well groved with different kinds of shrubbery; and near the centre of this island stand a number of aged apple-trees, planted, perhaps, a century since by the hand of some Indian.

   • 1822, Robert Chapman, The Topographical Picture of Glasgow in its Ancient and Modern State, 3rd Edition, page 195,

     The trees and shrubs are not arranged after any particular system, but are scattered or groved together in various parts of the garden.

   • 1984, Queensland Botany Bulletin, Issue 3, Department of Primary Industries, page 82,

     Virtually recognizable groving occurs in some A. aneura associations in the west. Further east some diffuse groving may occur, but is difficult to recognize without the benefit of aerial photographs.

2. (forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
   • 1842 February 5, The Gardeners Chronicle, page 86,

     In Herefordshire, especially on the northern and eastern sides, Oak timber abounds; and in many of the woods it is usual to have felling at periods varying from sixteen to twenty years; the straightest and handsomest are left for timber, or, as it is called, groved; and they are from time to time thinned, and a regular distance kept between them. The effect produced on these groved trees is, that from being exposed to air and sun, the rapidity of their growth is increased in bulk, height, and quality; and in sixty or eighty years they become valuable timber.

3. To plough or gouge with lines.
   • 1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138,

     Very frequently, however, to shorten the distance to the upper nurseries, where they^{[the ants]} have to take the eggs, they project an arch of about ten inches in length, and half an inch in breadth, groved or worked into steps, on its upper surface, to allow of a more easy passage.

   • 1841, New York State Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 2, page 14,

     The floor of first story and piazza to be laid with Georgia pine, in narrow courses planed, groved and tongued, and laid in the best manner.

Synonyms

• (gouge with lines): groove

Anagrams

• Gover

Danish

Adjective

grove

1. definite of grov
2. plural of grov

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

grove

1. Inflected form of grof

Middle English

Alternative forms

• grof, grave

Etymology

Inherited from Old English gr?f, gr?fa.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /??r??v(?)/
• IPA^(key): /??r??v(?)/

Noun

grove (plural groves or groven)

1. grove ("small forest")

Descendants

• English: grove
• Scots: grave (obsolete)
• Yola: greve

References

• “gr?ve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-06.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

grove

1. definite singular of grov
2. plural of grov

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

grove

1. definite singular of grov
2. plural of grov