Group
[gruːp] or [ɡrup]
Definition
(noun.) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit.
(noun.) a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse.
(noun.) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule.
(verb.) arrange into a group or groups; 'Can you group these shapes together?'.
(verb.) form a group or group together.
Edited by Adela--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
(n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cluster, collection, assemblage, clump.
v. a. Arrange, dispose, assign places to, form into groups.
Typist: Sharif
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cluster, bunch, knot, assemblage, collocation, class, collection, clump, order,assembly
ANT:Isolation, individual, crowd, confusion, medley
Editor: Lorna
Definition
n. a number of persons or things together: a number of individual things related in some definite way differentiating them from others: (art) a combination of figures forming a harmonious whole.—v.t. to form into a group or groups.—v.i. to fall into harmonious combination.—n. Group′ing (art) the act of disposing and arranging figures or objects in a group.
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Examples
- The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I turned from the group of trees and the merrie companie in its shade. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is Jarvis Lorry who has alighted and stands with his hand on the coach door, replying to a group of officials. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The group that stood in various attitudes, after this communication, were worthy of a painter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He knew Rachael well, for a glance at any one of these groups was sufficient to show him that she was not there. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The whole atmosphere could not consist of such groups of three because the watery particles were but a small portion of the total a tmosphere. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- That was before the first _partizan_ groups had been formed; before he had met Kashkin or any of the others. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have as yet only spoken incidentally of the disappearance of species and of groups of species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- You are charmingly grouped, and appear to uncommon advantage. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The buildings are usually grouped together at a favorable spot on the banks of the Amazon or one of its tributaries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The image was formed, we remember, by points of light grouped in the same relative positions as the points of light of the object we were photographing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Grouped about France, these republics were to be a constellation of freedom leading the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every sanction that mankind respects has been grouped about this one purpose--the control of capital. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In orchestral music the various instruments are grouped somewhat as shown in Figure 192. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But there is a decided grouping of valuable metals, and these can then be readily separated by means of electricity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This grand fact of the grouping of all organic beings under what is called the Natural System, is utterly inexplicable on the theory of creation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He must not simply learn the signs, but the established grouping of those signs to represent various meanings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is not enough that the circle is a convenient way of grouping the children. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This classification is not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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