英语词汇“convergent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINconverge

Origin:

1600-1700 Medieval Latin convergere, from Latin com- ( ➔ COM-) + vergere ‘to bend, turn’

VERB TABLE

converge

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	converge
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	converged
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have converged
	he, she, it	has converged
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had converged
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will converge
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have converged

Continuous Form
Present	I	am converging
	he, she, it	is converging
	you, we, they	are converging
Past	I, he, she, it	was converging
	you, we, they	were converging
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been converging
	he, she, it	has been converging
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been converging
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be converging
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been converging

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

About 20,000 motorcyclists will converge on Milwaukee this weekend, to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Harley Davidson bike company.
Here the two distinct theories converge.
The borders of Thailand, Laos and Burma all converge at this point.
The delta is where the rivers converge and flow into the bay.
The River Rhine converges with the Mosel at the city of Koblenz.
The two groups of demonstrators converged on Hyde Park.
Traffic is heavy where the two roads converge.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Delorean car enthusiasts from all over the world are set to converge on the province on Thursday for their annual reunion.
Several events converged to make this a pivotal year.
The principal rivers of the Empire flow from the east to the west, and as they converge they become greater still.
The separate implementations and cross-compilers are to be converged in a new Ada9X.
These mountains converge in the high mountainous land to the south called the Vaults.
We still held the point where the roads converged at Chancellorsville, but our position promised more for offensive than defensive battle.
Whenever famine strikes, Western public and private relief agencies converge upon it with cargo planes, helicopters and land cruisers.

Longman Language Activatorwhen people come together to make a crowd► gather

if people gather , they meet or come together and form a crowd: · By the time the president arrived, a large crowd had gathered.gather around/at/in etc: · Angry workers were gathering on the steps of City Hall.· A crowd gathered around to watch the fight.

► form

if a crowd forms , more and more people join a group of people who are already watching or listening to something: · A crowd was beginning to form at the scene of the accident.

► congregate

if people congregate in a particular place, a large number of them meet there, especially regularly in the same place, and at the same time: congregate at/in/around etc: · On Friday evening, teenagers congregate outside the bars on Greene Street.· Marchers were due to congregate at Market Square for an open-air meeting.

► converge

formal if groups of people converge in a particular place, they come there from many different places and meet together with others to form a large crowd, in order to do something or go somewhere: converge on: · The two groups of demonstrators converged on Hyde Park.· About 20,000 motorcyclists will converge on Milwaukee this weekend, to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Harley Davidson bike company.

► collect

if a crowd collects , people gradually come together so that there is a crowd, usually because they stop to watch or listen to something: · An hour or so before the press conference, a crowd began to collect outside the building.· A crowd was starting to collect outside the theatre to await the arrival of the prime minister.

when lines, roads, rivers etc come together and join► join/meet

if two or more lines, roads, rivers etc join or meet , or if one joins or meets the other, they come together at a particular place: · The Monongahela River joins the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh.· The M11 meets the M25 near Epping.· Accidents are frequent where the two roads join.· The point where the two lines meet is called the apex of a triangle.

► converge

formal if two or more roads, rivers, lines etc converge , they gradually become closer to each other and join together at a particular point: · The borders of Thailand, Laos and Burma all converge at this point.· Traffic is heavy where the two roads converge.converge with: · The River Rhine converges with the Mosel at the city of Koblenz.

► merge

if two roads or paths merge , they join together and become a single road or path: · When you get into London the two roads merge.merge with: · The store is just near where South Street merges with Washburn Street.· After a while, the trail we were on merged with another, bigger trail.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► on

· Cowboys, trail dust and great six-stringed hokum converge on Tucson this week with the ninth-annual Western Music Festival.

NOUN► people

· It is reported that up to 1200 people converged in the city where three main actions took place.· He had to make his way past people converging on the church and was pointed out by several.· Down every track and path and road the knots and files of people were converging.· On April 8 a crowd of more than 7,000 people converged on the presidential palace to demand the dismissal of the government.