group
noun
[ ɡruːp ]
• a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together.
• "a group of boys approached"
Similar:
category,
class,
classification,
grouping,
set,
lot,
batch,
bracket,
type,
sort,
kind,
variety,
family,
species,
genus,
breed,
style,
grade,
grading,
rank,
status,
crowd,
band,
company,
party,
body,
gathering,
congregation,
assembly,
collection,
cluster,
flock,
pack,
troop,
gang,
bunch,
• a set of elements occupying a column in the periodic table and having broadly similar properties arising from their similar electronic structure.
• a set of elements, together with an associative binary operation, which contains an inverse for each element and an identity element.
• (in systemic grammar) a level of structure between clause and word, broadly corresponding to phrase in other grammars.
group
verb
• put in a group or groups.
• "three chairs were grouped around a table"
Similar:
assemble,
collect,
gather together,
mass,
amass,
cluster,
clump,
bunch,
arrange,
organize,
marshal,
range,
line up,
dispose,
Origin:
late 17th century: from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, of Germanic origin; related to crop.
