conglomerate

«conglomerate» in Mova's school dictionary: A big company made up of many different businesses that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a conglomerate, conglomerates); adjective (conglomerate); verb (conglomerate — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) (money, business) A big company made up of many different businesses that sell different things. tree →

2) (science, geology) A kind of rock made of rounded pebbles and stones stuck together by finer material, like natural concrete. tree →

3) A mass of different things gathered together. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about rocks, conglomerate is a sedimentary rock: the rounded pebbles show they were once rolled by rivers or the sea. In money and business lessons, conglomerates own many brands. Related: agglomerate (with sharp pieces), breccia.

examples

• Conglomerate rock looks like pebbles glued together. tree →
• The conglomerate owns a TV channel, a bank and a cereal brand. tree →
• We found a piece of conglomerate on the beach. tree →
• Rounded pebbles in conglomerate were shaped by water. tree →
• The big conglomerate bought the toy company. tree →
• The cliffs are made of conglomerate and sandstone. tree →
• At first this temple was built of wood, then of stone, and the one lately discovered was formed of conglomerate of shells. tree →

note

Noun and adjective: «kon-GLOM-er-it»; rare verb: «kon-GLOM-er-ate». In geology: conglomerate has rounded pieces; breccia has sharp, broken pieces.

In the corpora

• Conglomerate is a rock made of rounded pebbles, rolled smooth by rivers or waves, cemented together.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «conglomerate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.