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group

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1. group - Noun

2. group - Verb

Meaning

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.

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

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.

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.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. George Carlin

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. Erica Jong

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. Henry Hazlitt

Beauty never travels in a group. Arabic Proverb

In a group of many words, there is bound to be a mistake somewhere in them. Chinese Proverb

English: An organised group lifts a mountain. Bulgarian Proverb

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