COMING TOGETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coming together mean? 

• COMING TOGETHER (noun)
  The noun COMING TOGETHER has 2 senses:

1. the social act of assembling for some common purpose

2. the act of joining together as one

  Familiarity information: COMING TOGETHER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMING TOGETHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The social act of assembling for some common purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coming together; congress; meeting

Context example:

the lovers met discreetly for the purposes of sexual congress

Hypernyms ("coming together" is a kind of...):

assemblage; assembly; gathering (the social act of assembling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coming together"):

rendezvous (a meeting planned at a certain time and place)

session (a meeting devoted to a particular activity)

socialisation; socialising; socialization; socializing (the act of meeting for social purposes)

visit (the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity)

visit (the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection))

visit (the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of joining together as one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coming together; meeting; merging

Context example:

there was no meeting of minds

Hypernyms ("coming together" is a kind of...):

convergence; convergency; converging (the act of converging (coming closer))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coming together"):

concourse; confluence (a coming together of people)

 Context examples 

The act of coming together and especially moving toward union or uniformity.

(Convergence, NCI Thesaurus)

The act or process or an instance of coming together.

(Meeting, NCI Thesaurus)

The act of touching physically; the physical coming together of two or more things.

(Physical Contact, NCI Thesaurus)

It's a perfect storm of extraordinary factors coming together: fire, ice and criminal negligence (...) The fire was known about, but it was played down.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

Said another way, the opposition can feel like two halves of an apple coming together to make a whole, or it can feel like a tug of war.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He tried to soothe his nose with his tongue, but the tongue was burnt too, and the two hurts coming together produced greater hurt; whereupon he cried more hopelessly and helplessly than ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Private affliction also is the lot of every man; but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have been enough to shake my very soul.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Somewhere out there in the snow, screened from his sight by trees and thickets, Henry knew that the wolf-pack, One Ear, and Bill were coming together.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

White Fang resisted, and he could feel the jaws shifting their grip, slightly relaxing and coming together again in a chewing movement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)