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[ noun ] any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Synonyms Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)On that date the Musicians_Emergency_Fund , organized to furnish employment for musicians unable to obtain engagements during the depression and to provide relief for older musicians who lost their fortunes in the stock_market crash , observed its 30_th anniversary . (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)Over the years , beginning in 1929 , Mason has been awarded seventeen major prizes including two gold medals ; two Ranger_Fund_purchase_awards ; the Joseph_Pennell_Memorial_Medal ; two American_Watercolor_Society_prizes ; the Blair_Purchase_Prize for watercolor , Art_Institute of Chicago ; and_others in Buffalo , New_York , Chautauqua , New_Haven , Rochester , Rockport , and most_recently , the $ 300 prize for a watercolor at the Laguna_Beach_Art_Association , He was elected to the National_Academy_of_Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger_Fund_Purchase_Prize at the Academy in 1930 ) , and elevated to Academicianship in 1940 . He was elected to the National_Academy_of_Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger_Fund_Purchase_Prize at the Academy in 1930 ) , and elevated to Academicianship in 1940 . Other memberships include the American_Watercolor_Society , Philadelphia_Water_Color_Club , Allied_Artists_of_America , Audubon_Artists , Baltimore_Watercolor_Society . |
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[ noun ] (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
Synonyms Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)( 3 ) For anionics , these micelles appear to be roughly spherical assemblages in which the hydrocarbon tails come together so that the polar groups ( the ionized ends ) face outward towards the aqueous continuous phase . Related terms substance unit methylene_group nitrate vinyl carboxyl cyano_group benzoyl_group hydroxyl uranyl alkyl allyl nitrite azo_group nitro_group acetyl azido_group glyceryl cacodyl propyl Butyl hydrazo_group ketone_group acyl alcohol_group aldehyde_group chromophore amino_group carbonyl_group benzyl molecule chemistry |
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[ verb ] arrange into a group or groups
Examples "Can you group these shapes together?" Used in print (Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)If all forms of a paradigm are grouped together within the dictionary , a considerable reduction in the amount of information required is possible . |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
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[ adjective ] for or by a group rather than individuals
Synonyms Examples "dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew"- Paul Roche "a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared" "a group effort" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)Everyone with a personal or group tragedy to relate had_to be given his day in court as in some vast collective dirge . Related terms |
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[ verb ] form a group or group together
Synonyms Used in print (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts_in_Loneliness '' is , as Professor_Bo ^ o ^ k indicated , in sharp contrast with the others . |
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