Colorado group
() A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. |
Dakota group
() A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America |
Figure
(n.) The form of anything |
Figure
(n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc. |
Figure
(n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article |
Figure
(n.) A diagram or drawing |
Figure
(n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person |
Figure
(n.) Distinguished appearance |
Figure
(n.) A character or symbol representing a number |
Figure
(n.) Value, as expressed in numbers |
Figure
(n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. |
Figure
(n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world |
Figure
(n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. |
Figure
(n.) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer. |
Figure
(n.) A horoscope |
Figure
(n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. |
Figure
(n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage |
Figure
(n.) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold |
Figure
(n.) To embellish with design |
Figure
(n.) To indicate by numerals |
Figure
(n.) To represent by a metaphor |
Figure
(n.) To prefigure |
Figure
(n.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. |
Figure
(n.) To embellish. |
Figure
(v. t.) To make a figure |
Figure
(v. t.) To calculate |
Fountain
(n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth. |
Fountain
(n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water |
Fountain
(n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use |
Fountain
(n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously |
Group
(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng |
Group
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic |
Group
(n.) 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. |
Group
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems |
Group
(n.) To form a group of |
Harlech group
() A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales. |
Laramie group
() An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology. |
Llandeilo group
() A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain |
Ludlow group
() A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone |
Portage group
() A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology. |
Potsdam group
() A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology |
Quebec group
() The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology. |
Wenlock group
() The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain |
group
grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
| figure skating | ice skating where the skates trace outlines of selected figures |
| figure | a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating, she made the best score on compulsory figures |
| figure eight | a skating figure that carves an in the ice |
| group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
group therapy
group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
| group action | action taken by a group of people |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
Adapid
Adapid group | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, their descendents probably include the lemurs, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
Omomyid
Omomyid group | extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, probably gave rise to the tarsiers, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
design
pattern
figure | a decorative or artistic work, the coach had a design on the doors |
drinking fountain
water fountain
bubbler | a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water |
| figure | a model of a bodily form (especially of a person), he made a figure of Santa Claus |
figure eight
figure of eight | a knot having the shape of the numeral , tied in a rope that has been passed through a hole or pulley and that prevents the rope from coming loose |
figure loom
figured-fabric loom | a loom for weaving figured fabrics |
| figure skate | an ice skate worn for figure skating, has a slightly curved blade and a row of jagged points at the front of the blade |
fountain
fount | a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water |
| fountain jet | an artificially produced flow of water |
| fountain | a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises |
| fountain pen | a pen that is supplied with ink from a reservoir in its barrel |
| lay figure | dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body |
| soda fountain | an apparatus for dispensing soda water |
| soda fountain | a counter where ice cream and sodas and sundaes are prepared and served |
| stick figure | drawing of a human or animal that represents the head by a circle and the rest of the body by straight lines |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
waxwork
wax figure | an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax |
| figure | the impression produced by a person, he cut a fine figure, a heroic figure |
number
figure | the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals, he had a number of chores to do, the number of parameters is small, the figure was about a thousand |
e human body
physical body
material body
soma
build
figure
physique
anatomy
shape
bod
chassis
frame form
flesh | alternative names for the body of a human being, Leonardo studied the human body, he has a strong physique, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
linkage group
linked genes | any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together, the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups |
ABO blood group system
ABO system
ABO group | a classification system for the antigens of human blood, used in blood transfusion therapy, four groups are A and B and AB and O |
| figure | a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground |
group
mathematical group | a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse |
| group theory | the branch of mathematics dealing with groups |
Abelian group
commutative group | a group that satisfies the commutative law |
| group dynamics | the branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups |
liaison
link
contact
inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
figure
fig | a diagram or picture illustrating textual material, the area covered can be seen from Figure |
trope
figure of speech
figure image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
conference
group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
| biological group | a group of plants or animals |
age group
age bracket
cohort | a group of people having approximately the same age |
| social group | people sharing some social relation |
ethnic group
ethnos | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |
interest
interest group | (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims, the iron interests stepped up production |