What's the difference between group and splinter?

Group


Definition:

  • (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.

Splinter


Definition:

  • (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
  • (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
  • (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
  • (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
  • (2) A splinter group of the nationalist National Liberation Front of Corsica had made a statement warning extremists that any attack on the island would trigger “a determined response, without any qualms”.
  • (3) Oleg Konstantinov, editor of local news site dumskaya.net, who was in hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and leg, and splinter wounds in his arm, said he had sent most of his reporters home for the two-day holiday.
  • (4) His National Congress party (NCP) feels sufficiently confident that it is not contesting 30% of the parliamentary seats, as an inducement to the splinter parties and smaller movements it has convinced to run in these elections.
  • (5) A patient with acute Leber's optic neuropathy had a large splinter retinal hemorrhage noted after he had strained to install fire hydrants.
  • (6) An elevated RP accumulation at the ends of the bone splinters was found from the 1st day after fracture.
  • (7) Splinter haemorrhages, hypocalcaemia and evidence of renal dysfunction were absent.
  • (8) The conclusion was drawn that the sciatic nerve is angulated at the osteotomy and further endangered by the risk of bone splintering at the sciatic notch.
  • (9) His power only grew after La Familia splintered, giving rise to the Knights Templar in 2011.
  • (10) In either case the chip waste also contains plenty of fine and finest compact chips which are broken off and splinter during the removal or knocking-off of the chips from solid bone.
  • (11) The various types of corticotomy, each with its own special purpose, include transverse or oblique, longitudinal, "splinter," and partial.
  • (12) Less than 24 hours after the murder, which many in Derry are blaming on the New IRA – an alliance of dissident republican splinter groups – the PSNI issued a description of Kieran McLaughlin.
  • (13) Extracts of Fernambouc splinters were made for serological testing.
  • (14) Last week a Taliban splinter group calling itself Asian Tigers executed Khalid Khawaja , a jihadi sympathiser it was holding hostage and accused of spying for the US and the Pakistani military.
  • (15) Iraq's "very future" will be determined in the coming days, the most senior US diplomat, John Kerry , said on Monday as he urged the country's feuding leaders to form a government and confront the jihadist surge currently splintering the country.
  • (16) Police inspector Mozammel Hoque said most of the injured were hit by bomb splinters but none was in critical condition.
  • (17) He wanted to check whether the abrasions and secondary wounds found on Steenkamp's body could have bee caused by wood splinters from the door.
  • (18) The duration of splinter hemorrhages ranged between six and 30 years.
  • (19) It can be shown that stone splinters do not injure the kidney tissue, but liquid jets generated by oscillating cavitation bubbles lead to tissue damage.
  • (20) Both excised lesions were abscesses, with associated granulomatous inflammation, fibrosis, and plant splinters.