group
Từ điển Collocation
group noun
ADJ. big, large, wide She has a very wide group of friends. | select, small The president met with a select group of senior ministers. | coherent, cohesive, tight, tightly-knit The strangers who came together for the course soon became a cohesive group. | minority Disabled drivers are an ever-growing minority group. | cultural, ethnic, racial | family The animals live in family groups of 10?20 individuals. | age, peer young people in this age group He started smoking because of peer-group pressure. | discussion a discussion group that meets once a month | self-help | action, pressure Local parents have formed an action group to campaign for better road safety. | splinter A few members of the party broke away to form a splinter group. | theatre | pop, rock | blood What blood group are you?
VERB + GROUP form, found, set up, start | divide sb/sth into We divided the class into small groups. | manage, run | become a member of, join | leave He left the group last year to pursue a solo career.
GROUP + VERB form The group formed back in 1992. | split up The group has split up and re-formed several times with different musicians.
GROUP + NOUN member
PREP. as a ~ The gorillas go foraging for food as a group. | in a/the ~ There are fifteen of us in the group. | within a/the ~ Within a group, each individual had a definite status. | ~ of a group of young mothers
More information about ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZATION: create, establish, form, found, set up, start ~ an association created to promote local industry The company was founded in 1981.
dissolve ~ (often law) She sought a court order to have the partnership dissolved.
run ~ He runs an accountancy firm.
manage ~ The executive committee manages the group on a day-to-day basis.
be/become a member of, join ~ She became a member of the Society of Arts.
leave ~ The country plans to leave the organization.
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- any number of entities (members) considered as a unit; grouping
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule; radical, chemical group
- a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse; mathematical group
Microsoft Computer Dictionary
n. A collection of elements that can be treated as a whole, such as a collection of records in a database report, or a collection of objects that can be moved and transformed as a single object in a drawing program. In various multiuser operating systems, a group is a set of user accounts, sometimes called members; privileges can be specified for the group, and each member will then have those privileges. See also built-in groups. Compare local group, user account.vb. In a drawing program, to transform a number of objects into a group. See also drawing program.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
groups|grouped|grouping
syn.: arrange assemble bunch classify cluster collect gather grade organize sort
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