Group

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Group, n. [F groupe, It. gruppo, groppo, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. origin: cf. G. kropf craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See Crop, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

Group, v. t. [Cf. F. grouper. See Group, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects."  [1913 Webster]

Grouped columns (Arch.), three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Group, n. & v.
--n.
1 a number of persons or things located close together, or considered or classed together.
2 (attrib.) concerning or done by a group (a group photograph; group sex).
3 a number of people working together or sharing beliefs, e.g. part of a political party.
4 a number of commercial companies under common ownership.
5 an ensemble playing popular music.
6 a division of an air force or air-fleet.
7 Math. a set of elements, together with an associative binary operation, which contains an inverse for each element and an identity element.
8 Chem. a a set of ions or radicals giving a characteristic qualitative reaction. b a set of elements having similar properties. c a combination of atoms having a recognizable identity in a number of compounds.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. form or be formed into a group.
2 tr. (often foll. by with) place in a group or groups.
3 tr. form (colours, figures, etc.) into a well-arranged and harmonious whole.
4 tr. classify.

Idiom

group captain an RAF officer next below air commodore. group dynamics Psychol. the field of social psychology concerned with the nature, development, and interactions of human groups. group practice a medical practice in which several doctors are associated. group therapy therapy in which patients with a similar condition are brought together to assist one another psychologically. group velocity the speed of travel of the energy of a wave or wave-group.

Derivative

groupage n.

Etymology

F groupe f. It. gruppo f. Gmc, rel. to CROP

THESAURUS

Group

American, Art Nouveau, Ashcan school, Barbizon, Bauhaus, Bolognese, British, Bund, Cobra, Dutch, Flemish, Fontainebleau, French, German band, Italian, Mannerist, Milanese, Modenese, Momentum, Neapolitan, New York, Paduan, Parisian, Phases, Philharmonic, Pre-Raphaelite, Raphaelite, Reflex, Restany, Rochdale cooperative, Roman, Scottish, Sienese, Spur, Suprematism, The Ten, Tuscan, Umbrian, Venetian, Washington, accumulate, accumulation, adjust, affiliation, age group, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, aggroup, alliance, alphabetize, amass, amount, analyze, appraise, arrange, array, art schools, assemblage, assemble, assembly, assess, association, assort, assortment, axis, band, batch, battalion, battery, bevy, big band, bloc, blood, body, bolt, bracket, branch, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, break down, brigade, bring together, budget, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, bundle, cabal, cadre, callithumpian band, camarilla, cartel, cast, caste, catalog, catalogue, categorize, category, cell, chain, chamber orchestra, charmed circle, chunk, church, circle, clan, class, classify, clique, closed circle, clot, club, clump, cluster, clutch, coalition, codify, cohort, collate, collect, collection, college, colligate, collocate, combination, combine, combo, common market, communion, community, company, compare, compile, complement, concert band, confederacy, confederation, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregation, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, copse, corps, corral, coterie, council, count, couple, covey, credit union, crew, crop, crowd, cumulate, customs union, deal, denomination, desks, detachment, detail, dig up, digest, dispose, divide, division, dixieland band, dose, draw together, dredge up, drive together, eclectic, economic community, elite, elite group, enlarge, ensemble, estate, evaluate, faction, factor, federation, fellowship, file, fleet, free trade area, gamelan orchestra, gang, gather, gather in, gather together, gathering, gauge, get in, get together, gob, gradate, grade, graduate, grouping, groupment, groups, grove, guild, hassock, head, heading, heap, hunk, identify, in-group, index, ingroup, inner circle, jazz band, join, jug band, junta, junto, juxtapose, kin, knot, label, large amount, league, level, list, look-alikes, lot, lump together, machine, make up, mass, match, matching pair, measure, mess, military band, mob, mobilize, movement, muster, number, offshoot, orchestra, order, organization, organize, out-group, outfit, pack, pair, parcel, part, partner, partnership, party, passel, peer group, persuasion, phalanx, pigeonhole, pile, place, platoon, plein-air, political machine, pool, portion, position, posse, predicament, proportion, push, put together, quantity, quartet, quintet, race, ragtime band, raise, rake up, rally, range, rank, rate, rating, ration, regiment, religious order, riddle, ring, rock-and-roll group, round up, rubric, ruck, salon, schism, school, scrape together, screen, sect, sectarism, section, segment, separate, sept, series, set, set apart, sextet, shock, sieve, sift, size, skiffle band, slew, small amount, society, sort, sort out, squad, stable, station, status, steel band, stook, strain, stratum, street band, string, string band, string choir, string orchestra, string quartet, strings, subdivide, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, subordinate, suite, sum, swing band, symphony, symphony orchestra, tabulate, take up, team, thicket, thrash out, tier, title, tribe, trio, troop, troupe, trust, tuft, tussock, twins, type, union, unit, variety, version, waits, we-group, weigh, whip in, wing, winnow, wisp, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds

ROGET THESAURUS

Group

Arrangement

VB reduce to order, bring into order, introduce order into, rally, arrange, dispose, place, form, put in order, set in order, place in order, set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal, cast the parts, assign the parts, dispose of, assign places to, assort, sort, sift, riddle, put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array, apportion, class, classify, divide, file, string together, thread, register, catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade, methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix, unravel, disentangle, ravel, card, disembroil, feaze.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis, assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

VB assemble, collect, muster, meet, unite, join, rejoin, cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate, congregate, conglomerate, concentrate, precipitate, center round, rendezvous, resort, come together, flock get together, pig together, forgather, huddle, reassemble, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.