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  1. sex,
  2. therapy,
  3. people,
  4. hug,
  5. friends

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Noun (3 meanings)

1. any number of entities (members) considered as a unit.

group, grouping

group is a type of:
types of group:
  • actinoid, actinide, actinon (noun) - any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103
  • arrangement (noun) - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit
  • association (noun) - (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
  • biological group (noun) - a group of plants or animals
  • circuit (noun) - (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations)
  • citizenry, people (noun) - the body of citizens of a state or country
  • collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage (noun) - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  • community, biotic community (noun) - (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
  • edition (noun) - all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time
  • electron shell (noun) - a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom
  • ethnic group, ethnos (noun) - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
  • halogen (noun) - any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions
  • kingdom (noun) - a basic group of natural objects
  • multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed (noun) - the common people generally
  • people (noun) - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
  • population (noun) - a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
  • race (noun) - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock
  • rare earth, rare-earth element, lanthanoid, lanthanide, lanthanon (noun) - any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71)
  • sainthood (noun) - saints collectively
  • series (noun) - a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection
  • social group (noun) - people sharing some social relation
  • straggle (noun) - a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons)
  • subgroup (noun) - a distinct and often subordinate group within a group
  • swarm, cloud (noun) - a group of many things in the air or on the ground
  • system, scheme (noun) - a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
  • varna (noun) - (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)
  • world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man (noun) - all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
instances of group:
  • Great Lakes (noun) - a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America
group is derivationally related to:
  • to group (verb) - arrange into a group or groups
  • to group, aggroup (verb) - form a group or group together

2. (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule.

group, radical, chemical group

group is a type of:
  • unit, building block (noun) - a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
types of group:
group is a part of:
  • molecule (noun) - (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound
Domain of synset - TOPIC:

3. a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse.

group, mathematical group

group is a type of:
  • set (noun) - (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
types of group:

Verb (2 meanings)

1. arrange into a group or groups.

to group

Example:
  • “Can you group these shapes together?”
to group is a way to:
ways to group:
  • to batch (verb) - batch together
  • to bracket (verb) - classify or group
  • to collocate, lump, chunk (verb) - group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
  • to regroup (verb) - reorganize into new groups
to group is derivationally related to:
  • group, grouping (noun) - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
  • grouping (noun) - the activity of putting things together in groups

2. form a group or group together.

to group, aggroup

to group is a way to:
ways to group:
  • to brigade (verb) - form or unite into a brigade
  • to embed (verb) - attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
  • to gang, gang up (verb) - act as an organized group
  • to pool (verb) - join or form a pool of people
  • to team, team up (verb) - form a team
to group is derivationally related to:
  • group, grouping (noun) - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
  • grouping (noun) - the activity of putting things together in groups