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Definition: HUDDLING


Part of Speech	Definition
Verb	1. To gather, collect, congregate, assemble or convene.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb huddle.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base (huddle)	1. Crowd or draw together; "let's huddle together--it's cold!".[Wordnet]. 2. Crouch or curl up; "They huddled outside in the rain".[Wordnet]. 3. To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.[Websters]. 4. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.[Websters]. 5. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle together.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: huddling, huddled, huddles, huddler, huddlers, huddlingly and huddledly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
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"Huddling" is a common misspelling or typo for: hurdling.

Date "Huddling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1535. (references)

Specialty Definition: HUDDLING

Domain	Definition
Noah Webster	[Verb] Crowding or throwing together in disorder; putting on carelessly.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary	[Verb] Present participle of huddle. (references)
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Topics by Level of Interest: HUDDLING
Topics sorted by level of Interest	Level (1=low, 600=high)		Topics sorted Alphabetically	Level (1=low, 600=high)
Huddling Place	5		Huddling Place	5
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"huddling" is a common misspelling or typo for: hurdling.

Synonyms: huddling
Position	Synonyms (sorted by strength)
Verb	cowering, crouching, crowding, disarraying, flocking, nestling, crawling, cringing, fawning, groveling, grovelling. Consider also: cuddling, stooping, snuggling, clumping, cluttering, jumbling, talking, heaping, hosting, swarming, congregating, tossing, assembling, collecting, concentrating.
Noun	gathering, grouping, concentration, bunching, clustering. Consider also: disordering, absorption, application, attention, compression, convergence, engrossment, intensity, assiduity, assiduousness, assimilation, compactness, denseness, density, dumbness, preoccupation.
Adjective	mobbing, routing, lumbering, crushing.
Other	huddler, huddled.
Source: Eve, based on meta analysis.		Top

Computed Synonyms: huddling

Rank	Intensity	Word	Synonyms	Synonyms of synonym
1	113.3195	huddling	heaping	packing, clustering, herding, grouping, flocking
2	104.4095	huddling	piling	bunching, stacking, mounding, batching, flocking
3	98.3094	huddling	massing	bulking, stacking, bunching, packing, grossing
4	85.3095	huddling	bunching	heaping, lumping, massing, piling, sheafing
5	75.3094	huddling	flocking	packing, heaping, mobbing, swarming, shoaling
6	60.3093	huddling	clustering	heaping, herding, banding, ganging, partying
7	55.3094	huddling	stacking	piling, heaping, ricking, massing, packing
8	54.3196	huddling	herding	packing, heaping, clustering, mobbing, shoaling
9	54.3094	huddling	thronging	mobbing, heaping, piling, squashing, rushing
10	53.3094	huddling	packing	flocking, heaping, herding, packed, batching
11	52.3094	huddling	mobbing	crowding, flocking, herding, heaping, thronging
12	51.3095	huddling	lumping	knobbing, clodding, bumping, hunching, biting
13	47.3195	huddling	hosting	flocking, mobbing, heaping, mastering, herding
14	43.3095	huddling	rucking	crowding, creasing, massing, wrinkling, puckering
15	40.3094	huddling	squashing	crushing, tread, grinding, grind, squeeze
-------------------- 616 synonyms ranked from 16 to 631 abridged --------------------
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100.					Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: huddling

Rank	Intensity	Word	Synonyms	Synonyms of synonym
1	1.0087	huddling	to overcrowd	overcrowd, to overload, to overstock
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100.					Top

Antonym: huddling
Position	Antonym (sorted by strength)
Verb	dispersing.
Source: Eve, based on meta analysis.		Top

Translations: HUDDLING

Language	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya	تَلَاقَى (assemble, assembled, assembles, assembling, collect), اِلْتَقَى (assemble, assembled, assembles, assembling, collect), اِجْتَمَعَ (integrate, affiliate, affiliated, affiliates, affiliating), رَبَضَ (huddle, huddled, huddles, huddling, lain). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha	تَلَاقَى (assemble, assembled, assembles, assembling, collect), اِلْتَقَى (assemble, assembled, assembles, assembling, collect), اِجْتَمَعَ (integrate, affiliate, affiliated, affiliates, affiliating), رَبَضَ (huddle, huddled, huddles, huddling, lain). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic	تَلَاقَى (assemble, assembled, assembles, assembling, collect), اِلْتَقَى (assemble, assembled, assembles, assembling, collect), اِجْتَمَعَ (integrate, affiliate, affiliated, affiliates, affiliating), رَبَضَ (huddle, huddled, huddles, huddling, lain). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese	huddling (huddling). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified	挤作一团 (huddle, huddled, huddles, huddling). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch	pressend (huddling, oppressing, pressingly), zusammendrängend (crowding, accumulating, crowding together, huddling). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Français	se blottissant (huddling). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
French	se blottissant (huddling). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
German	pressend (huddling, oppressing, pressingly), zusammendrängend (crowding, accumulating, crowding together, huddling). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic	تَلَاقَى (assemble, assembled, assembles, assembling, collect), اِلْتَقَى (assemble, assembled, assembles, assembling, collect), اِجْتَمَعَ (integrate, affiliate, affiliated, affiliates, affiliating), رَبَضَ (huddle, huddled, huddles, huddling, lain). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
High German	pressend (huddling, oppressing, pressingly), zusammendrängend (crowding, accumulating, crowding together, huddling). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch	pressend (huddling, oppressing, pressingly), zusammendrängend (crowding, accumulating, crowding together, huddling). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Norwegian	Klynger seg sammen (huddles, huddling). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese	huddling (huddling). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish	Apiñar (cluster, crowd, jam, overcrowd, pack). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, huddling. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations).				Top

Language	Translations for “huddling” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin	uddlinghay (huddling). Additional references: Pig Latin, huddling. (volunteer)
Terran B	huddaing (huddling). Additional references: Terran B, huddling. (volunteer)
Source: compiled by the editor.				Top