rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit;
colonnade. 
     V. follow in a series, form a series &c. n.; fall in.
     arrange in a series, collate &c. n.; string together, file, thread,
graduate, organize, sort, tabulate. 
     Adj. continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial,
successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row &c. n.; uninterrupted, unintermitting[obs3]; unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence) 604a; perennial, evergreen; constant. 
     Adv. continuously &c. adj.; seriatim; in a line &c. n.; in succession,
in turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim[Lat], at a stretch; in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.

     #70. [Interrupted sequence.] Discontinuity.—­ N. discontinuity;
disjunction &c. 44; anacoluthon[obs3]; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap &c. (interval) 198; solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation &c. (periodicity) 138; dropping fire. 
     V. be discontinuous &c. adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and
start, hesitate.
     discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break
off; interpose &c. 228; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect &c. (disjoin) 44; dissever. 
     Adj. discontinuous, unsuccessive[obs3], broken, interrupted,
dicousu[Fr]; disconnected, unconnected; discrete, disjunctive; fitful &c. (irregular) 139; spasmodic, desultory; intermitting, occasional &c. v., intermittent; alternate; recurrent &c. (periodic) 138. 
     Adv. at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by
fits and starts; skippingly[obs3], per saltum[Lat]; longo intervallo[It]. 
     Phr. like “angel visits few and far between” [Campbell].

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     #71.  Term. —­ N. term, rank, station, stage, step; degree &c. 26;
scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range. 
     V. hold a place, occupy a place, find a place, fall into a place &c.
n.

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     #72.  Assemblage. —­ N. {opp. 73} assemblage; collection, collocation,
colligation[obs3]; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement[obs3]; team; concourse, conflux[obs3], congregation, contesseration|, convergence &c. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione &c. (social gathering) 892[It]; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote[obs3]; conclave &c. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus[Lat]; Noah’s ark.
     miscellany, collectanea[obs3]; museum, menagerie &c. (store) 636;
museology[obs3].
     crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press,
crush, cohue[obs3], horde, body, tribe; crew, gang,