group
Noun:
- A collection of people or things: A number of individuals or items that are located, gathered, or classed together.
- A set with a mathematical structure: In mathematics, a set equipped with an operation that combines any two elements to form a third, satisfying four conditions: closure, associativity, identity, and invertibility.
- A unit within a molecule: In chemistry, a combination of atoms that behave as a single unit within a compound.
Verb:
- To form into a group: To gather or arrange people or things into one or more collections.
- To classify together: To put people or things into categories based on shared characteristics.
Noun:
- A small group of students waited outside the classroom.
- In algebra, the integers form a group under the operation of addition.
- The hydroxyl group (-OH) is common in many organic molecules.
Verb:
- The teacher asked the children to group themselves by birth month.
- We can group the survey responses into three main categories.
"In-group": A social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member.
- Employees often feel loyalty to their immediate in-group within the larger company.
"Reference group": A group to which an individual or another group is compared.
- Aspiring professionals often use senior managers as their reference group.
"Group theory": The mathematical field dedicated to the study of algebraic structures known as groups.
- Group theory has important applications in physics and chemistry.
Grouping (n): The action of forming a group or groups; a set of things grouped together.
- The new seating arrangement involved the careful grouping of team members.
Subgroup (n): A distinct group within a larger group.
- Each department functions as a subgroup of the entire organization.
Regroup (v): To form into a new group or to reorganize.
- After the break, we will regroup to discuss our findings.
- Noun: Cluster, collection, assemblage, category, class, set, batch.
- Verb: Assemble, gather, collect, categorize, classify, sort, arrange.
Group together: To gather or combine things or people.
- Please group together all the invoices from last month.
Group under: To classify something within a specific heading or category.
- These expenses can be grouped under "office supplies".
A whole different ball game / A whole new ball game: An entirely new and often more difficult situation. (While not containing "group," this idiom is often used when comparing one set of circumstances to another.)
- Managing five people is one thing, but leading a department of fifty is a whole new ball game.
Birds of a feather flock together: People with similar tastes, interests, or backgrounds tend to associate with one another. (This idiom describes the natural formation of groups.)
- It's no surprise the artists all share a studio; birds of a feather flock together.
- a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
- any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
- form a group or group together
- arrange into a group or groups
- Can you group these shapes together?