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 |
Force (v. t.) To stuff |
Force (n.) A waterfall |
Force (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind |
Force (n.) Power exerted against will or consent |
Force (n.) Strength or power for war |
Force (n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things |
Force (n.) Validity |
Force (n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion |
Force (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible |
Force (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence |
Force (n.) To do violence to |
Force (n.) To obtain or win by strength |
Force (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence |
Force (n.) To put in force |
Force (n.) To exert to the utmost |
Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. |
Force (n.) To provide with forces |
Force (n.) To allow the force of |
Force (v. i.) To use violence |
Force (v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything |
Force (v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight |
Force pump () A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves |
Force pump () A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure |
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 |
Loyalist (n.) A person who adheres to his sovereign or to the lawful authority |
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. |
Terrorist (n.) One who governs by terrorism or intimidation |
Volunteer (a.) One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will. |
Volunteer (a.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers |
Volunteer (a.) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance |
Volunteer (a.) Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers |
Volunteer (v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion |
Volunteer (v. i.) To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion |
Wenlock group () The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain |
group grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
tour de force | a masterly or brilliant feat |
drive thrust driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
force out force-out force play force | a putout of a base runner who is required to run, the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base, the shortstop got the runner at second on a force |
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 |
terrorism act of terrorism terrorist act | the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature, this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear |
violence force | an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists), he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one |
reconnaissance in force | an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information) |
group action | action taken by a group of people |
group participation | participation by all members of a group |
terrorist attack | a surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims |
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 |
Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
force pump | pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure |
lubricating system force-feed lubricating system force feed pressure-feed lubricating system pressure feed | mechanical system of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings |
effect force | (of a law) having legal validity, the law is still in effect |
force forcefulness strength | physical energy or intensity, he hit with all the force he could muster, it was destroyed by the strength of the gale, a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man |
force | a powerful effect or influence, the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them |
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 |
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 |
conference group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
act of God force majeure vis major inevitable accident unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
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 |
kin kin group kinship group kindred clan tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage |
taxonomic group taxonomic category taxon | animal or plant group having natural relations |
animal group | a group of animals |
al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Islamic Group | a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists, emerged during the s mainly in Egyptian jails, al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule |
Armed Islamic Group GIA | a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in , aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state, the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ASALA Orly Group rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group GRAPO | an armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain, seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime, GRAPO is vehemently opposed to the United States |
Force | formed in as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders, became one of PLO's elite units, has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Islamic Group of Uzbekistan IMU Islamic Party of Turkestan | a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in , opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia, is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries |
Jemaah Islamiyah JI Islamic Group Islamic Community Malaysian Mujahidin Group Malaysia Militant Group | a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in and trained by al-Qaeda, supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia |