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huddle
/ˈhʌdəl/
noun 5verb 5adj 1name 1
Collocations
4(noun.)
ADJ
little, small, tight
VERB + HUDDLE
get into, go into
The players got into a huddle to plan their next move before the game continued.
PREP
in a ~
A group of students gathered in a huddle to discuss their project before presenting it.
~ of
Several huddles of students gathered outside the classroom waiting for the teacher to arrive.
Definitions
noun
1
A dense and disorderly crowd.
2
A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
It’s about as riveting as listening to a huddle of ents discuss the finer points of deciduous shedding.
3
A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
The post-PMQs huddle takes place just outside the press gallery, and all the journalists swarm first around the Prime Minister's press team[…]
4
A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
5
A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
verb
1
To crowd together.
The sheep huddled together seeking warmth.
During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
2
To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
Just south of Wamphray station they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention.
3
To get together and discuss a topic.
George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.
4
To form a huddle.
5
To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,[…]makes a medley and confusion.
adj
1
Huddled, confused, congested.
There was in Sicilie a certaine fisherman who resembled in all points Sura the pro-consull, not onely in visage and feature of the face, but also in mowing with his mouth when he spake, in drawing his tongue short, and in his huddle and thicke speech.
The evangelists are easily distinguished from the rest, by a passionate zeal and love which the painter has thrown in their faces; the huddle group of those who stand most distant, are admirable representations of men abashed with their late unbelief and hardness of heart.
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It’s about as riveting as listening to a huddle of ents discuss the finer points of deciduous shedding.
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The post-PMQs huddle takes place just outside the press gallery, and all the journalists swarm first around the Prime Minister's press team[…]
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The sheep huddled together seeking warmth.
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During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
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Just south of Wamphray station they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention.
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There was in Sicilie a certaine fisherman who resembled in all points Sura the pro-consull, not onely in visage and feature of the face, but also in mowing with his mouth when he spake, in drawing his
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