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. |
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 |
Parliamentary
(a.) Of or pertaining to Parliament |
Parliamentary
(a.) Enacted or done by Parliament |
Parliamentary
(a.) According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies |
Party
(v.) A part or portion. |
Party
(v.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association |
Party
(v.) A part of a larger body of company |
Party
(v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment |
Party
(v.) One concerned or interested in an affair |
Party
(v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation |
Party
(v.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another. |
Party
(v.) Cause |
Party
(v.) A person |
Party
(v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries |
Party
(v.) Partial |
Party
(adv.) Partly. |
Party-coated
(a.) Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. |
Party-colored
(a.) Alt. of Parti-colored |
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. |
Sea whip
() A gorgonian having a simple stem. |
Wenlock group
() The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain |
Whip
(v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe |
Whip
(v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip |
Whip
(v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod |
Whip
(v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to |
Whip
(v. t.) To thrash |
Whip
(v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like. |
Whip
(v. t.) To conquer |
Whip
(v. t.) To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it |
Whip
(v. t.) To sew lightly |
Whip
(v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion |
Whip
(v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip. |
Whip
(v. t.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff. |
Whip
(v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip. |
Whip
(v. i.) To move nimbly |
Whip
(v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod. |
Whip
(v. t.) A coachman |
Whip
(v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread. |
group
grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
whip
lash
whiplash | a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object, the whip raised a red welt |
| party game | a game to amuse guests at a party |
| 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 |
| Boston Tea Party | demonstration () by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor, organized as a protest against taxes on tea |
| party spirit | devotion to a political party |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
whip-snake
whip snake
whipsnake | any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails |
whip-scorpion
whip scorpion | nonvenomous arachnid that resembles a scorpion and that has a long thin tail without a stinger |
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 |
| buggy whip | a horsewhip once used by a driver of a buggy, since buggies have been replaced by cars the buggy whip has become a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded |
party favor
party favour
favor
favour | souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party |
| party line | a telephone line serving two or more subscribers |
| party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
| whip | an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping |
whipping top
whip top | a top that is spun by whipping |
| whip | (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club |
upper hand
whip hand | position of advantage and control |
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 |
order rules of order
parliamentary law
parliamentary procedure | a body of rules followed by an assembly |
| party line | the policy of a political group, He won in a vote along party lines |
conference
group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
| party | an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment, he planned a party to celebrate Bastille Day |
| birthday party | a party held on the anniversary of someone's birth |
| cocktail party | an afternoon party at which cocktails are served |
| house party | a party lasting over one or more nights at a large house |
| tea party | a party at which tea is served |
| whip | a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit |
| prune whip | dessert made of prune puree and whipped cream |
| 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 |