Colorado group () A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. |
Countries (pl. ) of Country |
Dakota group () A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America |
Economic (a.) Alt. of Economical |
Economically (adv.) With economy |
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 |
Powerful (a.) Full of power |
Powerful (a.) Large |
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. |
Strong (superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power to act |
Strong (superl.) Having passive physical power |
Strong (superl.) Solid |
Strong (superl.) Having great military or naval force |
Strong (superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources |
Strong (superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers |
Strong (superl.) Moving with rapidity or force |
Strong (superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination |
Strong (superl.) Ardent |
Strong (superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy |
Strong (superl.) Full of spirit |
Strong (superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully |
Strong (superl.) Solid |
Strong (superl.) Well established |
Strong (superl.) Violent |
Strong (superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty |
Strong (superl.) Vigorous |
Strong (superl.) Tending to higher prices |
Strong (superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel) |
Strong (superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong |
Strong-minded (a.) Having a vigorous mind |
Strong-water (n.) An acid. |
Strong-water (n.) Distilled or ardent spirits |
Twenty (a.) One more that nineteen |
Twenty (a.) An indefinite number more or less that twenty. |
Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen |
Twenty (n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx. |
Twenty-fourmo (a.) Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet |
Twenty-fourmo (n.) A book composed of sheets, each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves |
Wenlock group () The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain |
group grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
blackjack twenty-one vingt-et-un | a gambling game using cards, the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding |
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 |
economic strangulation | punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them, the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party |
economic mobilization economic mobilisation | mobilization of the economy |
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 |
twenty-two . | a . caliber firearm (pistol or rifle) |
twenty-two pistol | a .aliber pistol |
twenty-two rifle | a .aliber rifle |
forte strong suit long suit metier specialty speciality strong point strength | an asset of special worth or utility, cooking is his forte |
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 |
twenty-twenty | normal visual acuity, as measured by the ability to read charts at a distance offeet |
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 |
conviction strong belief article of faith | an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence |
economic theory | (economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods) |
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 |
economic geology | the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials |
economic geography | the branch of geography concerned with the production and distribution of commodities |
group dynamics | the branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups |
economics economic science political economy | the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management |
liaison link contact inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
economic policy | a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues |
conference group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
liquor spirits booze hard drink hard liquor John Barleycorn strong drink | an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented |
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 |
strong suit | a long suit including high cards |
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 |
class stratum social class socio-economic class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status, the working class, an emerging professional class |
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 |
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 |