Consolidated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Consolidated \Con*sol"i*da`ted\, p. p. & a.
     1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
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              The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great
              variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties


              which were [in 1715] consolidated.    --Rees.
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              A mass of partially consolidated mud. --Tyndall.
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     2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in
        the cactus.
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              Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and
              designed for very dry regions; in such only they are
              found.                                --Gray.
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     {The Consolidated Fund}, a British fund formed by
        consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate
        Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816,
        the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and
        Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the
        Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are
        paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of
        the civil list, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Consolidate \Con*sol"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Consolidated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consolidating}.]
     1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact
        mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
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              He fixed and consolidated the earth.  --T. Burnet.
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     2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body;
        to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to
        consolidate the armies of the republic.
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              Consolidating numbers into unity.     --Wordsworth.
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     3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of
        a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]
  
     Syn: To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  consolidated
       adj 1: joined together into a whole; "United Industries"; "the
              amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a
              consolidated school" [syn: {amalgamate}, {amalgamated},
               {coalesced}, {fused}]
       2: forming a solid mass

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "consolidated":
     amalgamated, assimilated, blended, clamped, close, close-knit,
     close-textured, close-woven, combinative, combinatory, combined,
     compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed,
     congested, conjoint, conjugate, conjunctive, connective,
     constricted, contracted, crammed, crammed full, cramped, crowded,
     dense, eclectic, firm, fused, gluey, hard, heavy, impenetrable,
     impermeable, incorporated, integrated, jam-packed, jammed, joined,
     joint, knitted, massive, merged, mixed, nipped, nonporous, one,
     packed, pinched, pinched-in, puckered, pursed, serried, solid,
     solidified, squeezed, strangled, strangulated, substantial,
     syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, thick, thick-growing,
     thickset, united, viscid, viscose, viscous, wasp-waisted,
     wrinkled