| band | | |
| n. (group) | 1. band, circle, lot, set | an unofficial association of people or groups.; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot" |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ car pool | a small group of car drivers who arrange to take turns driving while the others are passengers. |
| ~ clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp, pack | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. |
| ~ cohort | a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion). |
| ~ confederacy, conspiracy | a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose. |
| ~ four hundred | the exclusive social set of a city. |
| ~ horsey set, horsy set | a set of people sharing a devotion to horses and horseback riding and horse racing. |
| ~ jet set | a set of rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure. |
| ~ party, company | a band of people associated temporarily in some activity.; "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen" |
| n. (group) | 2. band | instrumentalists not including string players. |
| ~ section | a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class. |
| ~ musical group, musical organisation, musical organization | an organization of musicians who perform together. |
| ~ marching band | a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same time. |
| ~ brass band | a group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments. |
| ~ concert band, military band | a group of musicians playing brass and woodwind and percussion instruments. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. band, banding, stria, striation | a stripe or stripes of contrasting color.; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" |
| ~ collar | (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal. |
| ~ stretch mark | a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy). |
| ~ streak, stripe, bar | a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background.; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. band, banding, stripe | an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material. |
| ~ adornment | a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness. |
| ~ cigar band | a narrow paper band around a cigar. |
| ~ garment | an article of clothing.; "garments of the finest silk" |
| ~ hatband | a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim. |
| ~ neckband | a band around the collar of a garment. |
| ~ pinstripe | a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric). |
| n. (group) | 5. band, dance band, dance orchestra | a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing. |
| ~ musical group, musical organisation, musical organization | an organization of musicians who perform together. |
| ~ big band | a large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians. |
| ~ combo, jazz band, jazz group | a small band of jazz musicians. |
| ~ rock band, rock group | a band of musicians who play rock'n'roll music. |
| ~ steel band | a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands). |
| n. (communication) | 6. band | a range of frequencies between two limits. |
| ~ frequency band, waveband | a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals). |
| ~ range | a variety of different things or activities.; "he answered a range of questions"; "he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection" |
| n. (artifact) | 7. band | a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body). |
| ~ armband | a band worn around the upper arm. |
| ~ arm band, armlet | a band worn around the arm for decoration. |
| ~ backband | a broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle. |
| ~ bellyband | a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed). |
| ~ collar, neckband | a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over. |
| ~ collar | a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it. |
| ~ garter, supporter | a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve). |
| ~ cincture, waistband, waistcloth, girdle, sash | a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers. |
| ~ headband | a band worn around or over the head.; "the earphones were held in place by a headband" |
| ~ headpiece, headstall | the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head. |
| ~ hoop, ring | a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling.; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" |
| ~ elastic, elastic band, rubber band | a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together. |
| ~ shoulder strap, strap | a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag. |
| ~ strip, slip | artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material. |
| ~ sweatband | a band of fabric or leather sewn inside the crown of a hat. |
| ~ sweatband | a band of material tied around the forehead or wrist to absorb sweat. |
| ~ bracelet, watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband | a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist. |
| ~ mourning band, weed | a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning. |
| ~ wristband | band consisting of a part of a sleeve that covers the wrist. |
| ~ wrist band, wristlet | a band or bracelet worn around the wrist. |
| n. (body) | 8. band, isthmus | a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure. |
| ~ tissue | part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. band, ring | jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger.; "she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band" |
| ~ annulet | a small ring. |
| ~ engagement ring | a ring given and worn as a sign of betrothal. |
| ~ jewellery, jewelry | an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems). |
| ~ mourning ring | a ring worn as a memorial to a dead person. |
| ~ ringlet | a small ring. |
| ~ seal ring, signet ring | a ring bearing a signet. |
| ~ wedding band, wedding ring | a ring (usually plain gold) given to the bride (and sometimes one is also given to the groom) at the wedding. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. band | a driving belt in machinery. |
| ~ belt | endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys. |
| n. (artifact) | 11. band | a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration. |
| ~ strip, slip | artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material. |
| ~ loop | anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself). |
| n. (artifact) | 12. band, ring | a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration). |
| ~ strip, slip | artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material. |
| n. (artifact) | 13. band | a restraint put around something to hold it together. |
| ~ brake band | a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation. |
| ~ collet | a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting. |
| ~ ligature | a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone. |
| ~ constraint, restraint | a device that retards something's motion.; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted" |
| ~ withe | band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems. |
| v. (contact) | 14. band | bind or tie together, as with a band. |
| ~ tie, bind | fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.; "They tied their victim to the chair" |
| v. (contact) | 15. band, ring | attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify.; "ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns" |
| ~ attach | cause to be attached. |
| flock | | |
| n. (group) | 1. flock | a church congregation guided by a pastor. |
| ~ congregation, faithful, fold | a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church. |
| n. (group) | 2. flock | a group of birds. |
| ~ bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. |
| ~ bevy | a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground).; "we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks" |
| ~ covert | a flock of coots. |
| ~ covey | a small flock of grouse or partridge. |
| ~ exaltation | a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead). |
| ~ gaggle | a flock of geese. |
| ~ wisp | a flock of snipe. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| ~ flight | a flock of flying birds. |
| n. (quantity) | 3. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" |
| ~ large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. |
| ~ deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ haymow | a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation. |
| n. (group) | 4. flock, troop | an orderly crowd.; "a troop of children" |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| n. (group) | 5. flock, fold | a group of sheep or goats. |
| ~ sheep | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat. |
| ~ animal group | a group of animals. |
| v. (motion) | 6. flock | move as a crowd or in a group.; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (motion) | 7. clump, cluster, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| ~ huddle, huddle together | crowd or draw together.; "let's huddle together--it's cold!" |
| ~ bunch, bunch together, bunch up | form into a bunch.; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| gang | | |
| n. (group) | 1. gang, mob, pack, ring | an association of criminals.; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" |
| ~ association | a formal organization of people or groups of people.; "he joined the Modern Language Association" |
| ~ nest | a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality.; "a nest of thieves" |
| ~ youth gang | a gang whose members are teenagers. |
| ~ gangdom, gangland, organized crime | underworld organizations. |
| ~ gangster, mobster | a criminal who is a member of gang. |
| n. (group) | 2. bunch, crew, crowd, gang | an informal body of friends.; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" |
| ~ assemblage, gathering | a group of persons together in one place. |
| n. (group) | 3. crew, gang, work party | an organized group of workmen. |
| ~ social unit, unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group.; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" |
| ~ manpower, men, work force, workforce, hands | the force of workers available. |
| ~ shift | a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time. |
| ~ detail | a crew of workers selected for a particular task.; "a detail was sent to remove the fallen trees" |
| ~ chain gang | a gang of convicts chained together. |
| ~ ground-service crew, ground crew | the crew of technicians and mechanics who service aircraft on the ground. |
| ~ road gang | a gang of road workers. |
| ~ section gang | a work crew assigned to a section of a railroad. |
| ~ stage crew | crew of workers who move scenery or handle properties in a theatrical production. |
| ~ crewman | a member of a work crew. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. gang | tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together. |
| ~ tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| v. (competition) | 5. gang, gang up | act as an organized group. |
| ~ aggroup, group | form a group or group together. |
| group | | |
| 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. (substance) | 2. chemical group, group, radical | (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule. |
| ~ chemical science, chemistry | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions. |
| ~ building block, unit | a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else.; "units of nucleic acids" |
| ~ acyl, acyl group | any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group" |
| ~ alcohol group, alcohol radical | the chemical group -OH. |
| ~ aldehyde group, aldehyde radical | the chemical group -CHO. |
| ~ alkyl, alkyl group, alkyl radical | any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons. |
| ~ allyl, allyl group, allyl radical | the univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5; derived from propylene. |
| ~ amino, amino group | the radical -NH2. |
| ~ amyl | a hydrocarbon radical that occurs in many organic compounds. |
| ~ azido group, azido radical | the univalent group N3- derived from hydrazoic acid. |
| ~ azo group, azo radical | the bivalent group -N=N- united to two hydrocarbon groups. |
| ~ benzyl, benzyl group, benzyl radical | the univalent radical derived from toluene. |
| ~ benzoyl group, benzoyl radical | the univalent radical derived from benzoic acid. |
| ~ molecule | (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound. |
| ~ arsenic group, cacodyl group, cacodyl radical, cacodyl | the univalent group derived from arsine. |
| ~ carbonyl group | the bivalent radical CO. |
| ~ carboxyl, carboxyl group | the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids. |
| ~ chromophore | the chemical group that gives color to a molecule. |
| ~ cyanide group, cyanide radical, cyano group, cyano radical | the monovalent group -CN in a chemical compound. |
| ~ glyceryl | a trivalent radical derived from glycerol by removing the three hydroxyl radicals. |
| ~ hydrazo group, hydrazo radical | the bivalent group -HNNH- derived from hydrazine. |
| ~ hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical | the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols. |
| ~ ketone group | a group having the characteristic properties of ketones. |
| ~ methylene, methylene group, methylene radical | the bivalent radical CH2 derived from methane. |
| ~ propyl, propyl group, propyl radical | the monovalent organic group C3H7- obtained from propane. |
| ~ butyl | a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9). |
| ~ nitro group | the group -NO3. |
| ~ nitrite | the radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid). |
| ~ uranyl, uranyl group, uranyl radical | the bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids. |
| ~ vinyl, vinyl group, vinyl radical | a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. group, mathematical group | a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse. |
| ~ subgroup | (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group. |
| ~ abelian group, commutative group | a group that satisfies the commutative law. |
| ~ set | (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols.; "the set of prime numbers is infinite" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. group | arrange into a group or groups.; "Can you group these shapes together?" |
| ~ class, classify, sort out, assort, sort, separate | arrange or order by classes or categories.; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" |
| ~ regroup | reorganize into new groups. |
| ~ bracket | classify or group. |
| ~ chunk, collocate, lump | group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side. |
| ~ batch | batch together; assemble or process as a batch. |
| v. (competition) | 5. aggroup, group | form a group or group together. |
| ~ team, team up | form a team.; "We teamed up for this new project" |
| ~ embed | attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war.; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division" |
| ~ gang, gang up | act as an organized group. |
| ~ pool | join or form a pool of people. |
| ~ brigade | form or unite into a brigade. |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| mob | | |
| n. (group) | 1. mob, rabble, rout | a disorderly crowd of people. |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| ~ lynch mob | a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority. |
| n. (group) | 2. crime syndicate, family, mob, syndicate | a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities. |
| ~ gangdom, gangland, organized crime | underworld organizations. |
| ~ cosa nostra, maffia, mafia | a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia. |
| v. (motion) | 3. jam, mob, pack, pile, throng | press tightly together or cram.; "The crowd packed the auditorium" |
| ~ crowd together, crowd | to gather together in large numbers.; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" |
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