different between cluster vs legion

English

Etymology

From Middle English cluster, from Old English cluster, clyster (“cluster, bunch, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *klus-, *klas- (“to clump, lump together”) + Proto-Germanic *-þr? (instrumental suffix), related to Low German Kluuster (“cluster”), dialectal Dutch klister (“cluster”), Swedish kluster (“cluster”), Icelandic klasi (“cluster; bunch of grapes”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl?st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kl?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Noun

cluster (plural clusters)

1. A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.

   a cluster of islands

   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

     Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, / Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.

2. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.

3. (astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.

4. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.

   examples of clusters would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"

5. (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
6. (phonetics) A group of consonants.

7. (computing) A group of computers that work together.
8. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
9. (statistics, cluster analysis) A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
10. (military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
11. (army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
12. (slang, euphemistic) A clusterfuck.
13. (chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

cluster (third-person singular simple present clusters, present participle clustering, simple past and past participle clustered)

1. (intransitive) To form a cluster or group.

   The children clustered around the puppy.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Oenone

     His sunny hair / Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.

   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     the princes of the country […] clustering together

   • 1997, Lynn Keller, Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women, University of Chicago Press, ?ISBN, chapter 6, 281:

     On the page, “Me” is irregular but—except for a prominent drawing of a two-toned hieroglyphic eye—not radically unusual: the lines are consistently left-justified; their length varies from one to a dozen syllables; they cluster in stanzalike units anywhere from one to six lines long that are separated by consistent spaces.

2. (transitive) To collect into clusters.
3. (transitive) To cover with clusters.

Translations

Anagrams

• culters, curlest, custrel, cutlers, relucts

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cluster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: clus?ter
• Rhymes: -?st?r

Noun

cluster f or m or m (plural clusters, diminutive clustertje n)

1. cluster
2. (astronomy) star cluster

   Synonyms: sterrencluster, sterrenhoop, sterrenzwerm

Derived terms

• sterrencluster

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cluster.

Noun

cluster m (plural clusters)

1. cluster

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English cluster.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kl?s.te?/

Noun

cluster m (plural clusters)

1. (music) cluster (chord of three or more notes)
2. (computing) cluster (group of computers working concurrently)

Spanish

Noun

cluster m (plural clusters or cluster)

1. Alternative spelling of clúster

English

Etymology

Attested (in Middle English, as legioun) around 1200, from Old French legion, from Latin legi?, legionem, from leg? (“to gather, collect”); akin to legend, lecture.

Generalized sense of “a large number” is due to (inaccurate) translations of allusive phrase in Mark 5:9.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?d??n/
• Rhymes: -i?d??n

Adjective

legion (not comparable)

1. Numerous; vast; very great in number

   Synonyms: multitudinous, numerous

Translations

Noun

legion (plural legions)

1. (military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.

   Meronyms: cohort, maniple, century

2. (military, obsolete) A combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery.

   Coordinate terms: combat team, regimental combat team, brigade combat team

3. (military) A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
4. (often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
5. A large number of people; a multitude.

   Synonyms: host, mass, multitude, sea, throng

6. (often plural) A great number.
7. (dated, taxonomy) A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.

Coordinate terms

• (military unit): fireteam, section, troop, squad, platoon, company, battalion, regiment, brigade, division, corps, wing, army, army group

Related terms

• legionary
• legionnaire

Derived terms

• superlegion
• sublegion
• infralegion

Translations

Verb

legion (third-person singular simple present legions, present participle legioning, simple past and past participle legioned)

1. (transitive) To form into legions.

Quotations

Further reading

• Roman legion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• legion (taxonomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• legion (demons) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• legion in popular culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• eloign, longie, ogle-in

Danish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin l?gi?.

Noun

legion c (singular definite legionen, plural indefinite legioner)

1. legion

Declension

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??ion/
• Hyphenation: le?gi?on
• Rhymes: -ion

Noun

legion

1. accusative singular of legio

Middle French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??jõ?/

Noun

legion f (plural legions)

1. (military) legion

Descendants

• French: légion

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin l?gi?.

Noun

legion m (definite singular legionen, indefinite plural legioner, definite plural legionene)

1. legion

Further reading

• “legion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin l?gi?.

Noun

legion m (definite singular legionen, indefinite plural legionar, definite plural legionane)

1. legion

Further reading

• “legion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l???.j?n/

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

legion m inan

1. legion

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin l?gi?.

Noun

legion c

1. legion

Declension

Anagrams

• logien