(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
(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.
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
(n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(6) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(8) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(9) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
(10) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(13) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(14) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(15) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(16) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(17) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(18) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(19) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(20) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
Ringleader
Definition:
(n.) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.
(n.) Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government blamed the opposition, jailing alleged ringleader Vladimir Kozlov amid an international outcry, closing down his party and shutting dozens of independent media outlets.
(2) Albums include Viva Hate, Vauxhall And I, and Ringleader Of The Tormentors.
(3) French, who has joined the nightly marches, said police appeared to have caught agitator ringleaders the previous 24 hours.
(4) Prison staff are working with Nottinghamshire Police to identify the ringleaders.
(5) Muktar Said-Ibrahim, the suspected ringleader, was seen in Rome several weeks before the failed attack, two witnesses told the Guardian yesterday.
(6) A former journalist, Vladimir Anikeev, believed to be the ringleader of the group, is also among those arrested, according to reports.
(7) And the BBC reports that Spanish police targeted "ringleaders" behind the "Occupy Congress" movement.
(8) When soldiers eventually broke their siege and killed the ringleaders, Bin Laden was seething.
(9) They were arrested reportedly because they were believed to have been ringleaders in earlier protests over the weekend.
(10) French media stressed that it was a public tip-off that ultimately helped police locate Abdeslam, just as it had been for the ringleader, Abaaoud.
(11) Abdeslam hunt map Belgian investigators have placed Abdeslam – a childhood friend of the terror cell’s ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud – in Budapest in early September, and later on the Austrian border, allegedly picking up two of the attackers who had joined the flow of refugees and migrants heading up through the Balkans.
(12) The court, however, accepted a petition from lawyers for the accused ringleader – Yosef Haim Ben David, 31 – to reconsider a claim of insanity.
(13) Along with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the 13 November attacks in Paris, Kriket was convicted in absentia last July of recruiting Islamist fighters for Syria in Belgium .
(14) Reader’s fellow ringleaders, John “Kenny” Collins, 75, Daniel Jones, 61, and Terry Perkins, 67, were each jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary last September.
(15) Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton , has praised Papua New Guinean authorities for “professionally” moving to end the standoff at the Manus Island detention centre by taking away alleged ringleaders.
(16) The support networks are so deeply implanted into Serbia's most powerful institutions that some question whether Vukcevic will go after their ringleaders.
(17) One of the Hatton Garden heist ringleaders has had a stroke, is being tested for suspected cancer and may not have long to live, a court has heard.
(18) We also need to consider if Singh's death, as the alleged ringleader of the conspiracy, will hurt the chances of bringing the other five suspects to justice.
(19) The files, which contained information dating back to the 1980s, contained descriptions such as "militant ringleader", "agitator", "is a good worker but has proved to be very militant", "do not touch", and "that subject is a very bad troublemaker and would not be re-employed".
(20) The Revolutionary Guards have accused Zaghari-Ratcliffe of fomenting a “soft overthrow” of the Islamic Republic and being the ringleader of a network of “hostile institutions” associated with foreign intelligence agencies, allegations that her husband has said are untrue.