Word Finder - groups

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A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

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A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.

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A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

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An effective divisor on a curve.

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A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

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Did you see the new jazz group?

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A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

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A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

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A functional group.

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Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.

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A subset of a culture or of a society.

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An air force formation.

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A collection of formations or rock strata.

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A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

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An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

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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.

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A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.

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A commercial organization.

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To put together to form a group.

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group the dogs by hair colour

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To come together to form a group.

In the Ader transmitter as many as twelve carbon pencils were employed, arranged in a series of two groups with six pencils in parallel in each group. These were supported at their ends in parallel carbon bars, which were carried by a nearly horizontal wooden diaphragm.

And all these groups, while talking among themselves, tried to keep near the commander-in-chief (whose bench formed the center of the gathering) and to speak so that he might overhear them.

Groups of people will do science this same way.

I never had patience to arrange more than five or six groups at a time.

Groups of singers stood outside the windows.

Here and there were groups of houses that seemed made of clear glass, because they sparkled so brightly.

Talal paused in an open doorway leading to a large, green field behind the dwelling occupied by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of warriors organized into sparring groups of four and five.

The men led her into a large meeting hall with warriors clumped in small groups throughout the hall.

Some left, ignoring her, while others shifted between small groups.

She followed the group down several corridors into a massive conference room filled with people in tight groups talking.

Climbers could be seen in pairs, groups and singles, some nearly beneath them.

The groups of boys stopped upon seeing Elisabeth and elbowed each other.

Groups of people milled and moved towards the fields surrounding the town, guided by moonlight and the light of handheld lanterns.

Lanterns lit the underground, and people huddled in quiet groups.

Many of the bikers knew one another and there were groups traveling together, but there was equal representation of couples and solo bikers.

Three bedrooms and one bath — not much of a dude ranch, but she intended to rent the house out to small groups.

Dozens of men sparred in small groups along the cliff.

The Daltonian would say that each of these weights represents a certain group of atoms, and that these groups can replace, or combine with, each other, to form new molecules.

Considering the wide differences between the two groups in the size and external characters, and in the mode of life, including the mode of feeding, it is indeed surprising that in every important organ the two groups should show a fundamental morphological identity.

These two groups are divided by the deep valley of the Tirso, the only real river in Sardinia, which has a course of 94 m.

There are three distinct though connected groups of ruins at Zimbabwe, which are commonly known as the "Elliptical Temple," the "Acropolis" and the "Valley Ruins."

Groups of these dwellings are enclosed by subsidiary stone walls so as to form distinct units within the larger precinct.

Apart from the above-mentioned division of the striped members of both groups into two types according to the pattern of their markings, the domesticated cats of western Europe are divided into a short-haired and a long-haired group. Of these, the former is the one which bears the closest relationship to the wild cats of Africa and of Europe, the latter being an importation from the East.

Two principal groups are distinguished, the Kuri archipelago in the south, and the Buduma in the north.

It is adminis- Groups.

The cotton industry is distributed in three principal groups.

Other groups of less importance are situated in the Lyonnais (Roanne and Tarare) and Mayenne (Laval and Mayenne).

Theoretically, no doubt, this is correct, but the typical members of the two groups are so different from one another that, as a matter of convenience, the retention of the two families seems advisable.

Sammetblende or przibramite is a variety, from Przibram in Bohemia, consisting of delicate acicular or capillary crystals arranged in radiating groups with a velvety surface and yellow colour.

European geographers have been accustomed to divide the islands into three groups for purposes of nomenclature, calling the northern group the Parry Islands, the central the Beechey Islands and the southern the Coffin or Bailey Islands.

Faringdon House, close to the church, was built by Henry James Pye (1745-1813), poet laureate from 1790 to 1813, who also caused to be planted the conspicuous group of fir-trees on the hill east of the town called Faringdon Clump, or locally (like other similar groups) the Folly.

And when he writes in eight parts for a double chorus the two groups are seldom identioal.

Beneath the epidermis is a longitudinal layer of muscle-fibres which are separated into four distinct groups by the dorsal, ventral and lateral areas; these are occupied by a continuation of the epidermic layer; in the lateral areas run two thin-walled tubes with clear contents, which unite in the anterior part of the body and open by a pore situated on the ventral surface usually about a quarter or a third of the body length from the anterior end.

Such a plasmodium bears, on its periphery, groups of rounded projections of protoplasm termed end-organs.

The parasitic Nematodes include by far the greatest number of the known genera; they are found in nearly all the orders of the animal kingdom, but more especially among the Vertebrata, and of these the Mammalia are infested by a greater variety than any of the other groups.

For political purposes these are subdivided into eight subordinate groups, consisting of three residencies and five agencies.

As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Samas-sum-yukin we find the Babylonians appealing to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city, that foreign women once married to Babylonian husbands could not be enslaved and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.

In practice the number of segments actually employed is much greater than that indicated on the figure, and the segments are arranged in a number of groups, as shown by fig.

As many as 162 segments in eight groups are practically used.

Again, suppose groups 3 and 4 to be punched.

The operator actuates a typewriter form of perforator which punches varying groups of holes, representing the different characters, in a paper strip about one inch wide.

In one of these ways the oscillations can be created or stopped at pleasure in the radiating antenna, and hence groups of electric waves thrown off at will.

The subscribers' lines in an exchange are arranged in groups of moo, which are divided in turn into sub-groups of 100 each.

The congeries of small groups of lower hills in the north are known as the Hessische Bergland.

But the Apennines of Central Italy, instead of presenting, like the Alps and the northern Apennines, a definite central ridge, with transverse valleys leading down from it on both sides, in reality constitute a mountain mass of very considerable breadth, composed of a number of minor ranges and groups of mountains, which preserve a generally parallel direction, and are separated by upland valleys, some of them of considerable extent as well as considerable elevation above the sea.

Nor do the highest summits form a continuous ridge of great altitude for any considerable distance; they are rather a series of groups separated by tracts of very inferior elevation forming natural passes across the range, and broken in some places (as is the case in almost all limestone countries) by the waters from the upland valleys turning suddenly at right angles, and breaking through the mountain ranges which bound them.

The northern part of Tuscany is indeed occupied to a considerable extent by the underfalls and offshoots of the Apennines, which, besides the slopes and spurs of the main range that constitutes its northern frontier towards the plain of the Po, throw off several outlying ranges or groups.

The whole of the district known in ancient times as Samnium (a part of which retains the name of Sannio, though officially designated the province of Campobasso) is occupied by an irregular mass of mountains, of much inferior height to those of Central Italy, and broken up into a number of groups, intersected by rivers, which have for the most part a very tortuous course.

It maybe also divided into three groups.

Parliament had degenerated into a congeries of personal groups, whose members were eager only to overturn cabinets in order to secure power for the leaders and official favors for themselves.