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 |
Glass-rope (n.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together. |
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 |
Guess rope () A guess warp. |
Guest rope () The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. |
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 |
Mechanism (n.) The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine |
Mechanism (n.) Mechanical operation or action. |
Mechanism (n.) An ideal machine |
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. |
Rope (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage. |
Rope (n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc. |
Rope (n.) The small intestines |
Rope (v. i.) To be formed into rope |
Rope (v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord |
Rope (v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope. |
Rope (v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something |
Rope (v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse). |
Rope (v. t.) To draw, as with a rope |
Rope (v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing. |
Rope's-end (v. t.) To punish with a rope's end. |
Rope-yarn (n.) the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made. |
Top-rope (n.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes. |
Wenlock group () The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain |
group grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
mechanism mechanics | the technical aspects of doing something, a mechanism of social control, mechanisms of communication, the mechanics of prose style |
rope-a-dope | a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches |
jump rope | a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope |
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 |
escape mechanism | a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities |
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 |
action action mechanism | the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism, the piano had a very stiff action |
anchor chain anchor rope | the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel |
gear gear mechanism | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) |
guide rope | a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane |
gunlock firing mechanism | the action that ignites the charge in a firearm |
guy guy cable guy wire guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
hangman's rope hangman's halter halter hemp hempen necktie | a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging |
jump rope skip rope skipping rope | a length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it |
mechanism | device consisting of a piece of machinery, has moving parts that perform some function |
R- Mexican valium rophy rope roofy roach forget me drug circle | street names for flunitrazepan |
ridge rope | either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship |
rope | a strong line |
rope bridge | a bridge consisting of ropes |
rope ladder | a ladder with side pieces of rope |
rope tow | a ski tow offering only a moving rope to hold onto |
ropewalk rope yard | workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made |
rope yarn | the strands out of which ropes are made |
rotating mechanism | a mechanism that rotates |
steering system steering mechanism | a mechanism by which something is steered (especially a motor vehicle) |
towline towrope towing line towing rope | (nautical) a rope used in towing |
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 |
mechanism | (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes |
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 |
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 |