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 |
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. |
Linked
(imp. & p. p.) of Link |
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. |
Range
(n.) To set in a row, or in rows |
Range
(n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army |
Range
(n.) To separate into parts |
Range
(n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order |
Range
(n.) To rove over or through |
Range
(n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near |
Range
(n.) To be native to, or to live in |
Range
(v. i.) To rove at large |
Range
(v. i.) To have range |
Range
(v. i.) To be placed in order |
Range
(v. i.) To have a certain direction |
Range
(v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region |
Range
(v.) A series of things in a line |
Range
(v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree |
Range
(v.) The step of a ladder |
Range
(v.) A kitchen grate. |
Range
(v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking |
Range
(v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal. |
Range
(v.) A wandering or roving |
Range
(v.) That which may be ranged over |
Range
(v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive |
Range
(v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives. |
Range
(v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried. |
Range
(v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile. |
Range
(v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced. |
Range
(v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart. |
Range
(v.) See Range of cable, below. |
Shear
(v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument |
Shear
(v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument |
Shear
(v. t.) To reap, as grain. |
Shear
(v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property |
Shear
(v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. |
Shear
(v. t.) A pair of shears |
Shear
(v. t.) A shearing |
Shear
(v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact |
group
grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
| 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 |
enzyme-linked-immunosorbent serologic assay
ELISA | an assay that relies on an enzymatic conversion reaction and is used to detect the presence of specific substances (such as enzymes or viruses or antibodies or bacteria) |
| zone fire | artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations |
| group action | action taken by a group of people |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
| range animal | any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep) |
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 |
| electric range | a kitchen range in which the heat for cooking is provided by electric power |
firing range
target range | a practice range for target practice |
gas range
gas stove
gas cooker | a range with gas rings and an oven for cooking with gas |
golf range
driving range | a practice range for practicing golf shots |
omnirange
omnidirectional range
omnidirectional radio range | a navigational system consisting of a network of radio beacons that provide aircraft with information about exact position and bearing |
| practice range | a place for practicing golf shots |
| range | a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds, the army maintains a missile range in the desert, any good golf club will have a range where you can practice |
rangefinder
range finder | a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object |
| range hood | exhaust hood over a kitchen range |
range pole
ranging pole
flagpole | surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide, used for sightings by surveyors |
| rifle range | a range where people can practice shooting rifles, during the war they turned the bowling alleys into rifle ranges |
| rocket range | a firing range for rocket missiles |
| shear | a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it |
shooting gallery
shooting range | an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice |
stove kitchen stove
range kitchen range
cooking stove | a kitchen appliance used for cooking food, dinner was already on the stove |
| test range | a range for conducting tests |
traffic island
safety island
safety isle
safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
twilight zone
no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
| X-linked dominant inheritance | hereditary pattern in which a dominant gene on the X chromosome causes a characteristic to be manifested in the offspring |
| X-linked recessive inheritance | hereditary pattern in which a recessive gene on the X chromosome results in the manifestation of characteristics in male offspring and a carrier state in female offspring |
| visual range | distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye |
| elasticity of shear | the elasticity of a body that has been pulled out of shape by a shearing force |
scope
range
reach
orbit
compass
ambit | an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: the range of a supersonic jet, a piano has a greater range than the human voice, the ambit of municipal legislation, within the compass of this article, within the scope of an investigation, outside the reach of the law, in the political orbit of a world power |
approximate range
ballpark | near to the scope or range of something, his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark |
| erogenous zone | any area of the body especially sensitive to sexual stimulation |
central veins of liver
venae centrales hepatis | terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids |
ciliary veins
venae ciliares | small veins coming from the ciliary body |
conjunctival veins
venae conjunctivales | veins draining the conjunctiva |
superior epigastric veins
venae epigastricae superiores | veins that accompany the superior epigastric artery |
episcleral veins
venae episclerales | small veins in the sclera near the corneal margin, empty into the anterior ciliary veins |
esophageal veins
oesophageal veins
venae esophageae | small veins from the esophagus emptying into the brachiocephalic vein or the azygos veins |
meningeal veins
venae meningeae | veins at accompany the meningeal arteries |
scleral veins
venae sclerales | tributaries of the anterior ciliary veins that drain the sclera of the eye |
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 |
venae labiales anteriores
anterior labial veins | veins from the labia majora to the external pudendal vein |
venae labiales posteriores
posterior labial veins | veins that pass posterior from the labia majora to the internal pudendal vein |