English noun: group |
| 1. | group any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
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| Synonyms | grouping |
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| Broader (hypernym) | abstract entity, abstraction |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | accumulation, actinide, actinoid, actinon, aggregation, arrangement, assemblage, association, biological group, biotic community, circuit, citizenry, cloud, collection, community, edition, electron shell, ethnic group, ethnos, halogen, hoi polloi, human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, kingdom, lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, man, mankind, mass, masses, multitude, people, people, people, population, race, rare earth, rare-earth element, sainthood, scheme, series, social group, straggle, subgroup, swarm, system, the great unwashed, varna, world |
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| Instance hyponym | Great Lakes |
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| 2. | group (substance) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule |
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| Synonyms | chemical group, radical |
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| Broader (hypernym) | building block, unit |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acyl, acyl group, alcohol group, alcohol radical, aldehyde group, aldehyde radical, alkyl, alkyl group, alkyl radical, allyl, allyl group, allyl radical, amino, amino group, amyl, arsenic group, azido group, azido radical, azo group, azo radical, benzoyl group, benzoyl radical, benzyl, benzyl group, benzyl radical, butyl, cacodyl, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical, carbonyl group, carboxyl, carboxyl group, chromophore, cyanide group, cyanide radical, cyano group, cyano radical, glyceryl, hydrazo group, hydrazo radical, hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical, ketone group, methylene, methylene group, methylene radical, nitrite, nitro group, propyl, propyl group, propyl radical, uranyl, uranyl group, uranyl radical, vinyl, vinyl group, vinyl radical |
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| Part meronym | molecule |
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| Domain category | chemical science, chemistry |
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| 3. | group (cognition) a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse |
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| Synonyms | mathematical group |
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| Broader (hypernym) | set |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Abelian group, commutative group, subgroup |
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English verb: group |
| 1. | group (cognition) arrange into a group or groups |
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| Samples | Can you group these shapes together?.
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something.
Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Broader (hypernym) | assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | batch, bracket, chunk, collocate, lump, regroup |
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| 2. | group (competition) form a group or group together |
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| Examples | The crowds group in the streets |
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| Synonyms | aggroup |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | assemble, foregather, forgather, gather, meet |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | brigade, embed, gang, gang up, pool, team, team up |
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