| grouping | | |
| n. (tops) | 1. group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ abstract entity, abstraction | a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples. |
| ~ human beings, human race, humankind, humans, mankind, humanity, world, man | all of the living human inhabitants of the earth.; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" |
| ~ arrangement | an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging.; "a flower arrangement" |
| ~ straggle | a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons).; "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers" |
| ~ kingdom | a basic group of natural objects. |
| ~ biological group | a group of plants or animals. |
| ~ biotic community, community | (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other. |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ edition | all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time.; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings" |
| ~ electron shell | a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom.; "the chemical properties of an atom are determined by the outermost electron shell" |
| ~ ethnic group, ethnos | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture. |
| ~ race | people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock.; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings" |
| ~ association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species. |
| ~ swarm, cloud | a group of many things in the air or on the ground.; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores" |
| ~ subgroup | a distinct and often subordinate group within a group. |
| ~ sainthood | saints collectively. |
| ~ citizenry, people | the body of citizens of a state or country.; "the Spanish people" |
| ~ population | a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area.; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" |
| ~ hoi polloi, masses, the great unwashed, multitude, people, mass | the common people generally.; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" |
| ~ varna | (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis). |
| ~ circuit | (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals. |
| ~ system, scheme | a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" |
| ~ series | a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection.; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies" |
| ~ great lakes | a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America. |
| ~ actinide, actinoid, actinon | any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103. |
| ~ lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71). |
| ~ halogen | any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions. |
| n. (act) | 2. grouping | the activity of putting things together in groups. |
| ~ pairing | the act of grouping things or people in pairs. |
| ~ punctuation | the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ phrasing | the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line. |
| ~ classification, assortment, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, categorisation, categorization | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type. |
| ~ assembling, collecting, aggregation, collection | the act of gathering something together. |
| ~ sorting | grouping by class or kind or size. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. grouping, pigeonholing | a system for classifying things into groups. |
| ~ classification system | a system for classifying things. |
| herd | | |
| n. (group) | 1. herd | a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans. |
| ~ bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen | domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age.; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"; "a team of oxen" |
| ~ sheep | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| ~ remuda | the herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen. |
| n. (group) | 2. herd | a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| ~ gam | a herd of whales. |
| n. (group) | 3. herd, ruck | a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things.; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd" |
| ~ concourse, throng, multitude | a large gathering of people. |
| v. (motion) | 4. crowd, herd | cause to herd, drive, or crowd together.; "We herded the children into a spare classroom" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ overcrowd | cause to crowd together too much.; "The students overcrowded the cafeteria" |
| v. (motion) | 5. herd | move together, like a herd. |
| ~ crowd together, crowd | to gather together in large numbers.; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" |
| v. (stative) | 6. herd | keep, move, or drive animals.; "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?" |
| ~ keep | raise.; "She keeps a few chickens in the yard"; "he keeps bees" |
| ~ wrangle | herd and care for.; "wrangle horses" |
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