group
US: /ˈɡɹup/
UK: /ɡɹˈuːp/
UK: /ɡɹˈuːp/
English Vietnamese dictionary
group /gru:p/
- danh từ
- nhóm
- to lean in groups: học nhóm
- to from a group: họp lại thành nhóm
- atomic group: (vật lý) nhóm nguyên tử
- group of algebras: (toán học) nhóm các đại số
- blood group: (y học) nhóm máu
- (hoá học) nhóm, gốc
- nhóm
- động từ
- hợp thành nhóm; tập hợp lại
- people grouped [themselves] round the speaker: mọi người tập họp lại xung quanh diễn giả
- phân loại, phân loại, phân hạng, phân phối theo nhóm
- (nghệ thuật) tạo nên sự hoà hợp màu sắc
- hợp thành nhóm; tập hợp lại
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [C+sing./pl. v.]
1 a number of people or things that are together in the same place or that are connected in some way: a group of girls / trees / houses + A group of us are going to the theatre this evening. + Students stood around in groups waiting for their results. + a discussion / study / support group + the Germanic group of languages + The proportion of single parent families varies between different income groups. + a group activity (= done by a number of people working together)
See also -
Help Note: There are many other compounds ending in group. You will find them at their place in the alphabet.
2 (business) a number of companies that are owned by the same person or organization: a newspaper group + the Burton group + the group sales director
3 (rather old-fashioned) a number of musicians who perform together, especially to play pop music: She sings in a rock group.
+ verb
1 ~ (sb/sth) (round / around sb/sth)
~ (sb/sth) (together) to gather into a group; to make sb/sth form a group: [VN] The children grouped themselves around their teacher. + Most of the houses were grouped around the church. + [V] We all grouped around the tree for a photograph. + The colleges grouped together to offer a wider range of courses.
2 [VN] to divide people or things into groups of people or things that are similar in some way: The books are grouped together by subject. + Contestants were grouped according to age and ability.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 assembly, assemblage, gathering, congregation, company, number, alliance, union, association, organization, league, society, coterie, clique, set, band, circle, club, party, body, faction, crowd, team, corps, guild, troupe, unit, troop, platoon, squad, gang:
A group of revolutionaries meets nightly in a basement in Krakowskaya Street
2 batch, aggregation, set, grouping, collection, assemblage, bunch, accumulation, conglomeration, agglomeration, assortment, series; pile, heap, bundle:
The entire group of abstract paintings was auctioned at double their estimated value.
v.
3 classify, class, sort, bracket, organize, order, rank, assort, categorize, catalogue:
Books are grouped according to subject.
4 collect, assemble, arrange, place, dispose, gather, organize, bring or put together, set apart:
Group oversized books together on the lowest shelves.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
big, large, wide
She has a very wide group of friends.
| select, small
The president met with a select group of senior ministers.
| coherent, cohesive, tight, tightly-knit
The strangers who came together for the course soon became a cohesive group.
| minority
Disabled drivers are an ever-growing minority group.
| cultural, ethnic, racial | family
The animals live in family groups of 10?20 individuals.
| age, peer
young people in this age group He started smoking because of peer-group pressure.
| discussion
a discussion group that meets once a month
| self-help | action, pressure
Local parents have formed an action group to campaign for better road safety.
| splinter
A few members of the party broke away to form a splinter group.
| theatre | pop, rock | blood
What blood group are you?
VERB + GROUP
form, found, set up, start | divide sb/sth into
We divided the class into small groups.
| manage, run | become a member of, join | leave
He left the group last year to pursue a solo career.
GROUP + VERB
form
The group formed back in 1992.
| split up
The group has split up and re-formed several times with different musicians.
GROUP + NOUN
member
PREP.
as a ~
The gorillas go foraging for food as a group.
| in a/the ~
There are fifteen of us in the group.
| within a/the ~
Within a group, each individual had a definite status.
| ~ of
a group of young mothers
More information about ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZATION:
create, establish, form, found, set up, start ~
an association created to promote local industry The company was founded in 1981.
dissolve ~
(often law)She sought a court order to have the partnership dissolved.
run ~
He runs an accountancy firm.
manage ~
The executive committee manages the group on a day-to-day basis.
be/become a member of, join ~
She became a member of the Society of Arts.
leave ~
The country plans to leave the organization.
ADV.
closely | loosely | thematically
Works in the exhibition are grouped thematically.
| together
PREP.
according to
Eggs were grouped according to colour and size.
| around/round
They sat grouped around the fire.
| by
The children were grouped by age.
| in/into
These stories can be loosely grouped into three types.
| with
The England team was grouped with Uruguay and Holland.
PHRASES
group sth under a heading
The names were grouped under four different headings.
Concise English dictionary
groups|grouped|groupinggruːp
noun
+any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
+(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
+a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
verb
+arrange into a group or groups
+form a group or group together
