group [ gru:p] n.小组，群 vi.聚集
group [gru:p] n. 组,群
group [gru:p] 组
成组技术 group technology
非洲、加勒比和太平洋国家集团（洛美协定） ACP(African, Caribbean and Pacific Group)
基地组织 al-Qaeda group
集体婚礼 collective wedding ceremony; group wedding
紧密型企业集团 tightly-knit groups of enterprises
联想集团 Legend Group
联合联络小组 joint liaison group
企业集团 enterprise group
(企业集团的）松散层 loose level (of an enterprise group)
优化组合 optimization grouping; optional regrouping
中央综治委“严打”整治斗争检查组 Strike-hard Campaign Inspection Group of Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Public Security.
LD Joint Photographic Experts Group 联合图片专家组
Moving Picture Experts Group 活动图像专家组
INTUG International Trade and User Groups 国际贸易和用户群
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group 联合摄影专家组
MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group 运动图象专家组
UAWG Universal ADSL Working Group 通用ADSL工作组
Standard for Fire Protection in Planned Building Groups
在计划内的建筑群的消防安全标准
Discussion Group（研讨组）：学生就教授的讲课内容，与教授或教学助理一起，分组进行讨论。
Special reductions are available to groups 12+ at all performances.
所有演出对12人以上的团体给予特别优惠。
Discounts available for pre-booked groups 团体提前预定优惠
教研室/组 teaching and research section/group
教学组 teaching group
小组面试 group interview
小组评价 group appraisal
Discussion Group（研讨组）：学生就教授的讲课内容，与教授或教学助理一起，分组进行讨论。
扩大中等收入者比重 Raise the proportion of the middle-income group.
扩大中等收入者比重 Raise the proportion of the middle-income group.
group/category product manager 类别产品经理
reference group 参照群体
selling groups 销售团队
strategic group 战略组
成人艾滋病临床研究协作组 adult AIDS clinical trials group (AACTG)
儿科艾滋病临床试验联盟 pediatric AIDS clinical trials group (PACTG)
adult AIDS clinical trials group (AACTG) 成人艾滋病临床研究协作组
pediatric AIDS clinical trials group (PACTG) 儿科艾滋病临床试验联盟
ad hoc group
专责小组
customer liaison group
服务联络小组；客户联络小组
degree and related grades [qualification group]
学位及相连职系〔资历组别〕
education grades [qualification group]
教育职系〔资历组别〕
ad hoc group 项目小组
Ad Hoc Sub-Group on Population Forecasts 人口预测专责小组
age group 年龄组别
April 5th Action Group 四五行动
concern group 关注团体
Constitutional Affairs Policy Group 政制事务政策小组
Education Action Group 教育行动组
expert group 专家小组
groups with related interests 有相关利益的团体
interest group 关注团体
occupational group 行业组别；职业类别
political commentary group 论政团体
political group 政治团体；政见团体；政党
pressure group 压力团体
professional group 专业组别
Senior Representative [Sino-British Joint Liaison Group] 首席代表〔中英联合联络小组〕
Sino-British Joint Liaison Group [JLG] 中英联合联络小组〔联合联络小组〕
special interest group 特殊利益组别
specialist sub-group 专家小组
Working Group on Administrative Matters [Provisional Legislative Council] 行政事宜工作小组〔临时立法会〕
Working Group on Population Distribution [Planning Department] 人口分布工作小组〔规划署〕
HBA Hardware failure oriented group Blocking-Acknowledgement message 面向硬件故障的群闭塞证实消息
HGB Hardware failure oriented Group Blocking message 面向硬件故障的群闭塞消息
HGU Hardware failure oriented Group Unblocking message 面向硬件故障的群解除闭塞消息
HUA Hardware failure oriented group Unblocking-Acknowledgement message 面向硬件故障的群解除闭塞证实消息
MBA Maintenance oriented group Blocking-Acknowledgement message 面向维护的群闭塞证实消息
MGB Maintenance oriented Group Blocking message 面向维护的群闭塞消息
MGU Maintenance oriented Group Unblocking message 面向维护的群解除闭塞消息
MUA Maintenance oriented group Unblocking-Acknowledgement message 面向维护的群解除闭塞证实消息
SBA Software generated group Blocking-Acknowledgement message 软件产生的群闭塞证实消息
SGB Software generated Group Blocking message 软件产生的群闭塞消息
SGU Software generated Group Unblocking message 软件产生的群解除闭塞消息
SUA Software generated group Unblocking-Acknowledgement message 软件产生的群解除闭塞证实消息
党组书记 secretary, Party Leadership Group
八国集团 Group of Eight (G8)
巴黎俱乐部 Paris Club (Group of Ten)
非洲，加勒比和太平洋地区国家集团(非加太集团) Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific Region Countries (ACP Group)
孔塔多拉集团 Contadora Group
七国集团 Group of Seven (G7)
七十七国集团 Group of 77
西方七国首脑会议 Seven-Nation Economic Summit; Group of Seven Summit (G7 Summit)
Concentrate on rejuvenating State-owned large enterprises and enterprises groups
集中力量抓好国有大型企业和企业集团
Develop trans-regional and inter-trade enterprise groups 发展跨地区跨行业的企业集团
group account 集团帐户
affiliated group 联营集团
group capitals 集团资本
financial group 财团
Group 集团，团体，组
group company 集团公司
group of enterprises 企业集团
Group of Seven (G-7) 七国集团
Grouped by 按...划分
grouped by ownership 按所有制划分
grouped by sector 按行业划分
large-scale industrial group 大型工业集团
multinational market group 跨国市场集团
集中喷射
group injection
She act as a leader of the group.
她担任小组领导人。
This music group has four musicians, two men and two women.
这个乐队有四名音乐师，两名男的,两名女的。
Twelve people constitute a research group.
12个人组成一个研究小组。
The group's idea will be implemented immediately.
这个小组的建议将很快得到实施。
The group will work toward the establishment of schools for the poor.
这个团体将致力于为穷人创办学校。
Twelve scientists constituted a research group to study air pollution.
12位科学家组成一个研究小组研究空气污染。
They organized workers into a labor group.
他们把工人组织成了一个劳工组织。
A large group of people were demonstrating in front of the factory, which had polluted the river.
一大群人在工厂门口抗议该厂污染了河流。
This group is made up of a head teacher and her staff.
小组成员由一位教师负责人和她的教员组成。
One of the prisoners informed on the rest of his group.
一个罪犯告发了犯罪团伙的其他成员。
A group of scientists were sent to explore the valley.
一个科学家小组被派去探索这个河谷。
The political official approached the group of people and began to talk to them.
那个政治家走向人群，开始与他们交谈。
The research was done by a group of scientists headed by John.
这项研究是由一个以约翰为首的科学家小组完成的。
The group acted upon the statements the researchers made.
这个小组是按照研究人员的建议行事的。
A survey of public opinion is carried out by a group of experts in political science.
一组政治学方面的专家对舆论进行了调查。
The police think that a large group of criminals is involved in the robberies.
警方认为有一大帮犯罪分子涉嫌这些抢劫案。
The research group headed by Dr. Johnson is faced with a host of difficulties.
以约翰逊博士为首的研究小组面临着很多困难。
The group meets weekly.
小组成员每星期碰一次头。
The ranks of the group were swelling under her firm leadership.
在她强有力的领导下，该集团的队伍日益壮大。
A group of children were lost in the inner part of the forest.
一群孩子在森林深处迷失了方向。
The findings of the study group on child care are due to be published soon.
儿童看护研究小组的调查结果将很快发表。
A survey conducted by a group of physicians indicates that pregnant women should pay more attention to their amount of iron reserves.
一组医生做的调查表明，孕妇更应该注意其体内铁离子的储存量。
The groups raise money and distribute it to help those in need, mainly through social workers.
各小组筹集钱款，然后把钱分发给那些贫困的人以帮助他们，这个工作主要通过社会工作者来做。
When criticisms were made of the school's performance, the parents group countered with details of its examination results.
当有人对学校的业绩提出批评时，家长团举出具体的考试成绩进行反驳。
The teacher asked the students to sit in groups so as to have group discussion.
老师让学生们以小组为单位坐好，以便进行小组讨论。
The observation group traveled from South Africa to Oxford via eight other African countries.
考察团一行经由其他八个非洲国家，从南非到达牛津。
His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as “ racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition,” can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe.
对于针对美国黑人的种族歧视，他的理论相对成立得较好，但是他将种族偏见如此定义：“在某一特定区域内的种族竞争中被普遍接受的一个种族所受到的基于种族的负面偏见。”可以看作也包含有对象加州的中国人以及中世纪的犹太人等少数民族的敌视。
Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficulty establishing themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated by large companies.
人民活动家一直认为黑人和拉丁美人难以在生意上立足的原因是因为他们难以取得大公司的大宗定单和分包合同。
When black poets are discussed separately as a group, for instance, the extent to which their work reflects the development of poetry in general should not be forgotten, or a distortion of literacy history may result.
如果把黑人诗人当作一个群体来讨论的话，比如说，他们的作品反应的诗歌发展历史的程度不该被忘记，可能会产生文学历史的一些改变。
Each departmental program consists, in part, of a grouping of subjects in the department’s areas of professional interest and, in part, of additional opportunities for students of their choice.
每个系的计划包括的一部分是系领域内的专业兴趣的科目，另一部分是学生们自己选择的额外机会。
English belongs to the Germanic group of languages.
英语属于日尔曼语系。
He showed me a photo of a family group.
他给我看一张合家欢的照片。
We can group animals into many types.
我们可以把动物分成很多种类。
A select group were invited to the wedding reception.
一群经过挑选的人士被邀请参加婚宴。
Things of a kind come together; people of a kind fall into the same group.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Group velocity 群速度
A What do you like to do in your spare time?
A 你业余时间喜欢做什么？
B I like to hear bands playing music.
B 我喜欢听乐队演奏。
A Like in the clubs and bars?
A 像俱乐部和酒吧里的乐队？
B Yes, you can see lots of new groups in the bars and clubs in Beijing.
B 是的，在北京的酒吧和俱乐部里你可以看到很多新的组合。
A Is it mostly rock music Or do you like other styles?
A 大多数都是摇滚乐队吗？或者你喜欢其他的风格？
B I like lots of different styles – rock, rap, whatever. It’s just good to hear it and see it in Beijing. I guess it’s my hobby!
B 我喜欢各种不同的风格——摇滚、说唱，无论什么。在北京听到、看到这样的演奏非常好。我想这就是我的爱好！
A What about that group? They’re speaking English, aren’t they?
A 那群人呢？他们在说英语，是吗？
B Yes. Let me try and listen to the accents.
B 是的。让我来听听他们的口音。
A British? American? What do you think?
A 英国人？还是美国人？你怎么看？
B No neither. They’re not British or American. I think they’re from Australia or New Zealand.
B 都不是。他们既不是英国 人也不是美国人。我想他们是澳大利亚人或者是新西兰人。
A So many tourists! Beijing and China are really popular these days, especially with the Olympics coming.
A 这么多的游客。北京和中国现在都非常受欢迎，尤其是奥运会要召开了。
Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admira-tion, respect, moral support, and help.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker
整个一生，我们都有赖于从一些人群中获得友爱、觉识、尊重、道义支持和帮助。
美国思想家爱默生.R.W.
派别 group; school; faction
氨基 [ān jī] /amino/amino-group/
班子 [bān zi ] /organized group/theatrical troupe/
班组 [bān zǔ] /teams and groups (in factories, etc.)/
帮 [bāng] /to assist/to support/to help/group/gang/party/
编 [biān] /weave/plait/organize/group/arrange/edit/compile/write/compose/fabricate/
编组 [biān zǔ] /organize into groups/marshalling/
拨 [bō] /to push aside/to appropriate (money)/to move/to set aside/group/batch/to poke/to stir/
财团 [cái tuán] /financial group/
成群 [chéng qún] /in groups/large numbers of/grouping/
搭配 [dā pèi] /(v) pair up; put into pairs/(v) add sth into a group/
大队 [dà duì] /group/a large body of/production brigade/
党组 [dǎng zǔ] /leading party group/
侗 [dòng] /(ethnic group)/
督察小组 [dū chá xiǎo zǔ] /supervisory group/
队 [duì] /squadron/team/group/
分批 [fēn pī] /(adv) do sth in batches or groups/
分子 [fèn zi ] /(math.) numerator (in fractions)/members of a class or group/political elements (such as intellectuals or extremists)/
功能群 [gōng néng qún] /functional group/
合影 [hé yǐng] /joint photo/group photo/
呼声 [hū shēng] /(n) voiced opinion or desire, usually associated with a group/
会 [huì] /can/be possible/be able to/to assemble/to meet/to gather/to see/union/group/association/
集团 [jí tuán] /group/bloc/
界 [jiè] /boundary/scope/extent/circles/group/kingdom (taxonomy)/
俱乐部 [jù lè bù] /club (i.e. a group or organization)/
力宝 [lì bǎo] /Lippo (Group) (Indonesian business concern)/
联想集团 [lián xiǎng jí tuán] /Lenovo group (PRC computer firm)/
龙头老大 [lóng tóu lǎo dà] /big boss/leader of a group/dominant (position)/
旅游团 [lǚ yóu tuán] /tour group/
民族 [mín zú] /nationality/ethnic group/
派 [pài] /clique/school/group/faction/to dispatch/
群 [qún] /crowd/flock/group/
群岛 [qún dǎo] /group of islands/archipelago/
群论 [qún lùn] /(math.) group theory/
社 [shè] /society/group/
书社 [shū shè] /reading group/(n) press/
斯佩林 [sī pèi lín] /Spelling (e.g. Spelling Entertainment Group)/
僳 [sù] /Lisu (ethnic group)/
羧基 [suō jī] /(chem.) carboxyl group/
肽基 [tài jī] /peptide group/peptide unit/
突厥 [tū jué] /Turkic (minority group in China)/
团 [tuán] /regiment/round/circular/group/society/
团体 [tuán tǐ] /group/organization/team/
团员 [tuán yuán] /member/group member/
下级 [xià jí] /(n) low level group or people/
小组 [xiǎo zǔ] /a group/
阵线 [zhèn xiàn] /a front (i.e. militant group)/
阵营 [zhèn yíng] /group of people/camp/faction/
周转 [zhōu zhuǎn] /(v) the exchange of money or items between groups and people; turnover/
专案组 [zhuān àn zǔ] /special (legal|judicial) investigations group/
僮 [zhuàng] /name of an ethnic group in Guangxi/
族群 [zú qún] /ethnic group/
组 [zǔ] /to form/compose/make up/group/to organize/cord/
组长 [zǔ zhǎng] /group leader/
If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.
如果你在和一群经理谈话，你就可以评论他们秘书的工作方法紊乱；相反，如果你在和一群秘书谈话，你就可以评论她们老板的工作方法紊乱。
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman's notorious bad taste in ties.
如果你是你谈话对象集体中的一员，你就能够了解你们所共有的经历和问题，你就可对餐厅极难吃的食物或者总裁在选择领带方面差劲的品味进行评头论足。
Downshifting — also known in America as "voluntary simplicity" — has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed anti-consumerism.
具有讽刺意味的是，“放慢生活节奏”——在美国也称“自愿简单化”——甚至孕育了一个崭新的、可称之为反消费主义的生活方式。
There are a number of bestselling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid-'90s equivalent of dropping out.
对于那些想简单生活的人来说，有许多很畅销的帮你轻松生活的自助书籍；有各种简讯，例如省钱简报，会给美国人提供成千上万条有用的点子去做事，从回收保鲜腊到自制肥皂；甚至还有一些帮助团体，帮人按90年代中期脱离传统社会的人的生活方式去生活。
Urban Japanese have long endured lengthy commutes (travels to and from work) and crowded living conditions, but as the old group and family values weaken, the discomfort is beginning to tell.
城市里的日本人长期忍受着漫长的上下班来回路程和拥挤不堪的居住条件，随着旧的群体家庭道德观的削弱，令人不舒服的结果开始显现出来。
At the same time, the American Law Institute — a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight — issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.
与此同时，美国法学会——该学会由一群举足轻重的法官、律师、学者所组成——签署了新的民事侵害法纲要，宣布公司不必警示顾客那些显而易见的危险，或者给顾客列出一份冗长的可能造成的危险的清单。
But, for a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not.
但是对少数学生而言，职业培训也许是可取之路，因为在其他因素相同的情况下，熟练的技能是能否得到工作的关键。
That group — the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) — has been working feverishly to put its wisdom on paper, and at a meeting on 17 May, members agreed on a near-final draft of their recommendations.
这个名为“全国生物伦理道德顾问委员会”（NBAC）的小组一直在非常积极地工作，集思广益，并诉诸笔端；在5月17日的一次会议上，委员们就接近定稿的意见书取得了一致意见。
A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
1996年对新闻报道的调查表明，反科学的标签也贴在了许多其他群体上，从提倡消灭所有现存的天花病毒的官方人士到倡议削减基础研究基金的共和党人。
Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group's on-line service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: "We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn't just something that happened in Australia. It's world history."
几乎同时，该消息就出现在互联网上。身处地球另一端的加拿大死亡权利执行主席约翰·霍夫塞斯在收到该消息后便通过协会的在线服务“死亡之网”发了公告。他说：“我们整天都在发布公告，因为这件事的意义不在于它是在澳大利亚发生的事情，而是因为这是世界历史的一件大事。”
The full import may take a while to sink in.
要充分理解这一法案的深刻意义可能需要一段时间。
The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications.
澳北州晚期病人权利法使得无论是内科医生还是普通市民都同样地力图从道义和实际意义两方面来对待这一问题。
Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage.
一些人如释重负，另一些人，包括教会，生命权利组织以及澳大利亚医学会成员都对这一决议及其仓促的通过进行了猛烈的抨击。
Drugs (substances) that affect the central nervous system and alter perception, mood, and behavior are known as psychoactive substances.
影响中枢神经系统、改变感知觉和行为的药物（物质）属于对神经起显著作用的物质，
Psychoactive substances are commonly grouped according to whether they are stimulants, depressants, or hallucinogen.
它们通常分为兴奋剂、镇静剂和幻觉剂。
Stimulants initially speed up or activate the central nervous system, whereas depressants slow it down.
Hallucinogens have their primary effect on perception, distorting and altering it in a variety of ways including producing hallucinations.
兴奋剂主要起到加速或激活中枢神经系统的作用，而镇静剂则相反：减缓它的活动。幻觉剂主要影响人的感知，通过多种方式对感知加以扭曲或改变，其中包括产生幻觉。
These are the substances often called psychedelic (from the Greek word meaning "mind-manifestation") because they seemed to radically alter one's state of consciousness.
这些物质常被认为能“引起幻觉”（psychedelic一词源于希腊语，意为“心灵显现”），因为它们似乎能改变人的意识状态。
{adj: Nilotic} of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages
"Nilotic syntax"
{adj: Nordic} of or relating to or constituting the Scandinavian group of languages
"Nordic languages have a gender system"
{adj: Semitic} of or relating to the group of Semitic languages
"Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"
{adj: Sotho} of or relating to any of the group of Sotho languages
"Sotho noun classifiers"
{adj: accumulated, amassed, assembled, collected, congregate, massed} brought together into a group or crowd
"the accumulated letters in my office"
{adj: advanced} at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill
"an advanced degree"
"an advanced text in physics"
"special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University"
{adj: alpha} first in order of importance
"the alpha male in the group of chimpanzees"
"the alpha star in a constellation is the brightest or main star"
{adj: alto} (of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group
"alto clarinet or recorder"
{adj: amino, aminic} pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia
{adj: apart} having characteristics not shared by others
"scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush
{adj: arbitrary} based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
"an arbitrary decision"
"the arbitrary rule of a dictator"
"an arbitrary penalty"
"of arbitrary size and shape"
"an arbitrary choice"
"arbitrary division of the group into halves"
<-> nonarbitrary
{adj: atypical, untypical} not representative of a group, class, or type
"a group that is atypical of the target audience"
"a class of atypical mosses"
"atypical behavior is not the accepted type of response that we expect from children"
<-> typical
{adj: azido} relating to or containing the azido group N3
{adj: black} of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
"a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
<-> white
{adj: blurred, clouded} unclear in form or expression
"the blurred aims of the group"
"sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells
{adj: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly} noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
"a boisterous crowd"
"a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"
"a robustious group of teenagers"
"beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"
"an unruly class"
{adj: carbonyl, carbonylic} relating to or containing the carbonyl group
{adj: carboxyl, carboxylic} relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical
{adj: chartered, hired, leased} hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers
"a chartered plane"
"the chartered buses arrived on time"
<-> unchartered
{adj: close-knit, closely knit} held together as by social or cultural ties
"a close-knit family"
"close-knit little villages"
"the group was closely knit"
{adj: communal} for or by a group rather than individuals
"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"
{adj: compositional} arranging or grouping
{adj: crazy, dotty, gaga, enamored, infatuated, in love, smitten, soft on, taken with} marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
"she was crazy about him"
"gaga over the rock group's new album"
"he was infatuated with her"
{adj: cultural, ethnic, ethnical} denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
"influenced by ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy
"ethnic food"
{adj: cultural} of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors
"cultural events"
"a person of broad cultural interests"
{adj: decadent, effete} marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
"a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"
"a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
{adj: detached, isolated, separated, set-apart} being or feeling set or kept apart from others
"she felt detached from the group"
"could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson
"thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"
"had a set-apart feeling"
{adj: disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split} having been divided; having the unity destroyed
"Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell
"a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White
"a fragmented coalition"
"a split group"
{adj: dissimilar} not similar
"a group of very dissimilar people"
"a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"
"their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own"
"took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem"
<-> similar
{adj: distinguishing, identifying} serving to distinguish or identify a species or group
"the distinguishing mark of the species is its plumage"
"distinctive tribal tattoos"
"we were asked to describe any identifying marks or distinguishing features"
{adj: energetic} possessing or exerting or displaying energy
"an energetic fund raiser for the college"
"an energetic group of hikers"
"it caused an energetic chemical reaction"
<-> lethargic
{adj: ethnocentric} centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own
{adj: eusporangiate} (of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells
"eusporangiate ferns of the families Ophioglossaceae and Marattiaceae"
<-> leptosporangiate
{adj: every} (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
"every person is mortal"
"every party is welcome"
"had every hope of success"
"every chance of winning"
{adj: exclusive} excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority
"exclusive clubs"
"an exclusive restaurants and shops"
<-> inclusive
{adj: external, extraneous, outside} coming from the outside
"extraneous light in the camera spoiled the photograph"
"relying upon an extraneous income"
"disdaining outside pressure groups"
{adj: general} applying to all or most members of a category or group
"the general public"
"general assistance"
"a general rule"
"in general terms"
"comprehensible to the general reader"
<-> specific
{adj: generic} applicable to an entire class or group
"is there a generic Asian mind?"
{adj: grassroots} of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group
"a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament"
{adj: gregarious} (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species
"gregarious bird species"
<-> ungregarious
{adj: gregarious} (of plants) growing in groups that are close together
<-> ungregarious
{adj: grouped, sorted} arranged into groups
{adj: homogeneous, homogenous} all of the same or similar kind or nature
"a close-knit homogeneous group"
<-> heterogeneous
{adj: hydroxy} being or containing a hydroxyl group
{adj: ignorant, nescient, unenlightened, unlearned, unlettered} uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
"an ignorant man"
"nescient of contemporary literature"
"an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"
"exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
{adj: independent} not controlled by a party or interest group
{adj: indie} (of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company
{adj: infrahuman} belonging to a group below humans in evolutionary development
"infrahuman animals"
{adj: inside, inner, privileged} confined to an exclusive group
"privy to inner knowledge"
"inside information"
"privileged information"
{adj: integrated} not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups
"integrated schools"
<-> segregated
{adj: internecine} (of conflict) within a group or organization
"an internecine feud among proxy holders"
{adj: large, big} above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
"a large city"
"set out for the big city"
"a large sum"
"a big (or large) barn"
"a large family"
"big businesses"
"a big expenditure"
"a large number of newspapers"
"a big group of scientists"
"large areas of the world"
<-> little, small
{adj: law-abiding, peaceful} (of groups) not violent or disorderly
"the right of peaceful assembly"
{adj: loosely knit} having only distant social or legal ties
"a loosely knit group"
{adj: loud} characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
"a group of loud children"
"loud thunder"
"her voice was too loud"
"loud trombones"
<-> soft
{adj: memberless} of a group or set having no members
<-> membered
{adj: methylated} having received a methyl group
"methylated alcohol"
{adj: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering} (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently
"a restless mobile society"
"the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"
"believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"
"wandering tribes"
{adj: monocarboxylic} containing one carboxyl group
{adj: motivated} provided with a motive or given incentive for action
"a highly motivated child can learn almost anything"
"a group of politically motivated men"
<-> unmotivated
{adj: multiethnic, multi-ethnic} involving several ethnic groups
{adj: nominal} pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun
"nominal phrase"
"noun phrase"
{adj: nongregarious, nonsocial, solitary} of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies
"solitary bees"
{adj: nonstandard} not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community
"a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups"
"the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech"- A.R.Dunlap
<-> standard
{adj: off-limits, out-of-bounds} barred to a designated group
"that area is off-limits"
{adj: paramilitary} of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like (or in aid of) a military unit
{adj: particularistic} relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.)
"a particularistic-seeming statement"
{adj: particular} separate and distinct from others of the same group or category
"interested in one particular artist"
"a man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him"
{adj: peacekeeping} of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces
"a peacekeeping force"
{adj: philharmonic} composing or characteristic of an orchestral group
"philharmonic players"
{adj: private} confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy
"a private place"
"private discussions"
"private lessons"
"a private club"
"a private secretary"
"private property"
"the former President is now a private citizen"
"public figures struggle to maintain a private life"
<-> public
{adj: pronounceable} capable of being uttered or pronounced
"a pronounceable group of letters"
<-> unpronounceable
{adj: proportionate} being in due proportion
"proportionate representation of a minority group"
<-> disproportionate
{adj: proto} indicating the first or earliest or original
"`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages"
{adj: racial} of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups
"racial differences"
"racial discrimination"
<-> nonracial
{adj: racial} of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people
"racial groups"
{adj: rarefied, rarified} reserved for an elite group
{adj: sectional} related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of of a territory or community or group of people
"sectional tensions arose over slavery"
{adj: segregated, unintegrated} separated or isolated from others or a main group
"a segregated school system"
"a segregated neighborhood"
<-> integrated
{adj: separative} (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
"whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative"
{adj: small, little} limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
"a little dining room"
"a little house"
"a small car"
"a little (or small) group"
<-> big, large
{adj: socialized, socialised} under group or government control
"socialized ownership"
"socialized medicine"
{adj: social} living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups
"a human being is a social animal"
"mature social behavior"
<-> unsocial
{adj: social} tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind
"ants are social insects"
{adj: synergetic, synergistic} working together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect
"a synergistic effect"
{adj: three-cornered} involving a group or set of three
"a three-cornered race"
{adj: tight} packed closely together
"the stood in a tight little group"
"hair in tight curls"
"the pub was packed tight"
{adj: trihydroxy} containing three hydroxyl groups
{adj: typical} exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category
"a typical American girl"
"a typical suburban community"
"the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"
"a painting typical of the Impressionist school"
"a typical romantic poem"
"a typical case of arteritis"
<-> atypical
{adj: umbrella} covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups
"an umbrella organization"
"umbrella insurance coverage"
{adj: unclassified} not arranged in any specific grouping
<-> classified
{adj: uneasy} lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance
"farmers were uneasy until rain finally came"
"uneasy about his health"
"gave an uneasy laugh"
"uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"
"an uneasy coalition government"
"an uneasy calm"
"an uneasy silence fell on the group"
<-> easy
{adj: ungregarious} (of plants) growing together in groups that are not close together
<-> gregarious
{adj: universal} applicable to or common to all members of a group or set
"the play opened to universal acclaim"
"rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys"
{adj: vertical} of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
"vertical social mobility"
{adj: vibrant, vivacious} vigorous and animated
"a vibrant group that challenged the system"
"a charming and vivacious hostess"
"a vivacious folk dance"
{adj: vocal} relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
"vocal technique"
"the vocal repertoire"
"organized a vocal group to sing his compositions"
<-> instrumental
{adj: white} of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
"voting patterns within the white population"
<-> black
{adj: worshiping, worshipping} that is at worship
"a worshiping group"
{adj: zoological} of or relating to animals or animal groups
"zoological garden"
{adv: aboard} part of a group
"Bill's been aboard for three years now"
{adv: all together} used of a group whose members acted or were acted upon collectively and when `all' and `together' can be separated by other words
"they were herded all together"
"they were all herded together"
"the books lay all together in a heap"
"the books all lay together..."
{adv: apart} away from another or others
"they grew apart over the years"
"kept apart from the group out of shyness"
"decided to live apart"
{adv: communally} by a group of people rather than an individual
"the mills were owned communally"
{adv: elegantly} in a gracefully elegant manner
"the members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do"
{adv: en masse, en bloc, as a group} all together
"the students turned out en masse"
{adv: familiarly} in an intimately familiar manner
"Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group"
{adv: not, non} negation of a word or group of words
"he does not speak French"
"she is not going"
"they are not friends"
"not many"
"not much"
"not at all"
{adv: particularly, in particular} specifically or especially distinguished from others
"loves Bach, particularly his partitas"
"recommended one book in particular"
"trace major population movements for the Pueblo groups in particular"
{adv: significantly} in a statistically significant way
"the two groups differed significantly"
{adv: synergistically} (of group) in a synergistic or cooperative manner
{n: A, type A, group A} the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen
{n: A-team} a group of elite soldiers or a leadership group of advisors or workers in an organization
{n: AB, type AB, group AB} the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens
{n: ABO blood group system, ABO system, ABO group} a classification system for the antigens of human blood; used in blood transfusion therapy; four groups are A and B and AB and O
{n: Abelian group, commutative group} a group that satisfies the commutative law
{n: Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades} a terrorist group that has worked with Al Qaeda; claimed responsibility for attacks in Iraq and Turkey
{n: Adapid, Adapid group} extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
{n: Admiralty Islands} a group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago
{n: Alcoholics Anonymous, AA} an international organization that provides a support group for persons trying to overcome alcoholism
{n: Alex Boncayao Brigade, ABB, Revolutionary Proletarian Army, RPA-ABB} an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s
{n: Alexander Archipelago} a group of islands off southeastern Alaska
{n: Algonquian, Algonquin} a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
{n: Altaic, Altaic language} a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
{n: Altaic} any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group
{n: Amentiferae, group Amentiferae} used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins
{n: Ansar al Islam, Ansar al-Islam, Supporters of Islam} a radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States; some members fought with the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan; said to receive financial support from Saddam Hussein
{n: Antilles} a group of islands in the West Indies
{n: Anunnaki, Enuki} any of a group of powerful Babylonian earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods
{n: Aramean, Aramaean} a member of one of a group of Semitic peoples inhabiting Aram and parts of Mesopotamia from the 11th to the 8th century BC
{n: Arawak, Arawakan} a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
{n: Arizona sycamore, Platanus wrightii} medium-sized tree of Arizona and adjacent regions having deeply lobed leaves and collective fruits in groups of 3 to 5
{n: Armed Islamic Group, GIA} a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in 1992; aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state
"the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres"
{n: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Orly Group, 3rd October Organization} a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia
"ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in 1983 killed 8 and wounded 55 people"
{n: Armenian} an ethnic group speaking Armenian and living in Armenia and Azerbaijan
{n: Arminian Baptist, General Baptist} group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius (who opposed the doctrine of strict predestination of the Calvinists)
{n: Asbat al-Ansar, Band of Partisans} an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda
{n: Ashcan School, Eight} a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life
{n: Asteridae, subclass Asteridae} a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder
{n: Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapaskan language} a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
{n: Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan} a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska
{n: Azeri} an ethnic group living in Azerbaijan
{n: B, type B, group B} the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen
{n: Baader Meinhof Gang, Baader-Meinhof Gang} a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977
{n: Baltic-Finnic} a group of Finnic languages including Finnish and Estonian
{n: Baptist denomination} group of Baptist congregations
{n: Beatles} a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of it written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon)
{n: Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen} English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
{n: Bengali} an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India
{n: Bermuda, Bermudas} a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort
{n: Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon} a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
{n: Bismarck Archipelago} a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea
{n: Biu-Mandara} a group of Chadic languages spoken in the border area between Cameroon and Nigeria south of Lake Chad
{n: Black Muslim} an activist member of a largely American group of Blacks called the Nation of Islam
{n: Blackfoot} a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
{n: Bloomsbury Group} an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles
{n: Bolshevik, Bolshevist} a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party
{n: Brule} a member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux
{n: Brythonic, Brittanic} a southern group of Celtic languages
{n: Buddhism} a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha
{n: Caddo} a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas
{n: Calvinistic Baptist, Particular Baptist} group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the French theologian John Calvin who believed in strict predetermination
{n: Canaanitic, Canaanitic language} a group of Semitic languages
{n: Canary Islands, Canaries} a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces
{n: Cape Verde Islands} a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal
{n: Carlsbad Caverns} a group of caverns in southeastern New Mexico noted for their stalactites and stalagmites
{n: Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order-Chenopodiales} corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae
{n: Caryophyllidae, subclass Caryophyllidae} a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder
{n: Centrospermae, group Centrospermae} used in former classification systems; approximately synonymous with order Caryophyllales
{n: Chaetognatha, phylum Chaetognatha} arrowworms: a group of small active transparent marine worms
{n: Channel Island} any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France
{n: Chari-Nile} a group of Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of the Sudan and Zaire and Uganda and Tanzania
{n: Chemakuan} a group of Mosan languages spoken in Washington
{n: Chukaku-Ha} an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing
"Chukaku-Ha attacks tend to cause property damage rather than casualties"
{n: Copehan} a group of Penutian languages spoken to the west of the Sacramento river
{n: Crimean War} a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia; 1853-1856
{n: Cushitic} a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions
{n: Cycadopsida, class Cycadopsida, Cycadophytina, subdivision Cycadophytina, Cycadophyta, subdivision Cycadophyta} palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta)
{n: Cyclades, Kikladhes} a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean
{n: Cynic} a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control
{n: Dard, Dardic, Dardic language} any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
{n: Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PDFLP} a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change
"in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren"
{n: Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida} comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae
{n: Dilleniidae, subclass Dilleniidae} a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder
{n: Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI} the Pakistan intelligence agency; a powerful and almost autonomous political and military force; has procured nuclear technology and delivery capabilities; has had strong ties with the Taliban and other militant Islamic groups
{n: Discomycetes, subclass Discomycetes} a large and taxonomically difficult group of Ascomycetes in which the fleshy fruiting body is disklike or cup-shaped
{n: Dodecanese, Dhodhekanisos} a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea
{n: East Chadic} a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad
{n: East Turkistan Islamic Movement, East Turkestan Islamic Movement} a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression
{n: Egadi Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegadean Islands, Isole Egadi, Aegates} a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean
{n: Euronithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, euronithopod, Ornithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda} widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon)
{n: Falkland Islands} a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British crown colony
{n: Faroe Islands, Faeroe Islands, Faroes, Faeroes} a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands
{n: Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fatah-RC, Abu Nidal Organization, ANO, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Black September, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims} a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
"in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group"
{n: Fatah Tanzim, Tanzim} a terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah; serves a dual function of violent confrontation with Israel and serves as Arafat's unofficial militia to prevent rival Islamists from usurping leadership
{n: Fates, Weird Sisters, Three Weird Sisters} a group of three goddesses of destiny
{n: Fauve, fauvist} a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism
{n: Fermi, Enrico Fermi} Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954)
{n: Fiji Islands, Fijis} a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
{n: First of October Antifascist Resistance Group, GRAPO} an armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain; seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime
"GRAPO is vehemently opposed to the United States"
{n: Flemish} an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium
{n: Fomor, Fomorian} one of a group of Celtic sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature
{n: Forces of Umar Al-Mukhtar, Umar al-Mukhtar Forces} a little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis; seeks to defeat Israel and liberate southern Lebanon, Palestine, and Golan Heights
{n: French Academy} an honorary group of French writers and thinkers supported by the French government
"the French Academy sets standards for the use of the French language"
{n: Galapagos Islands, Galapagos} a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life
{n: Galois theory} group theory applied to the solution of algebraic equations
{n: Gambier Islands} a group of islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
{n: Ganoidei, order Ganoidei} a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales
{n: Germanic, Germanic language} a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic
{n: Gilbert Islands} a group of islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it became part of the Republic of Kiribati in 1979
{n: Grant, Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant} Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
{n: Great Attractor} a massive grouping of galaxies in the direction of Centaurus and Hydra whose gravitational attraction is believed to cause deviations in the paths of other galaxies
{n: Great Lakes} a group of 5 lakes in central North America
{n: Greater Antilles} a group of islands in the western West Indies
{n: Gur, Voltaic} a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana
{n: Gymnospermae, class Gymnospermae, Gymnospermophyta, division Gymnospermophyta} plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta); comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida); in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida)
{n: Haida} a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska
{n: Hamamelidae, subclass Hamamelidae} a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder
{n: Hamitic, Hamitic language} a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
{n: Hare Krishna, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON} a religious sect founded in the United States in 1966; based on Vedic scriptures; groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna; devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy
{n: Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami, HUJI} an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan
{n: Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors} an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan
{n: Hawaiian Islands, Sandwich Islands} a group of volcanic and coral islands in the central Pacific
{n: Hebrews, Israelites} the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)
{n: Hebrides, Hebridean Islands, Hebridean Isles, Western Islands, Western Isles} a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland
{n: Hesperides, Atlantides} (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera
{n: Heterostraci, suborder Heterostraci} extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fishlike vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear
{n: High Church, High Anglican Church} a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)
{n: Hittite} the language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions
{n: Hizb ut-Tahrir, Freedom Party} the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia; advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state
{n: Honegger, Arthur Honegger} Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955)
{n: Igbo} a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria
"most Igbo are farmers"
{n: Igigi} any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu
{n: Inca, Inka, Incan} a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
{n: Indian chief, Indian chieftain} the leader of a group of native Americans
{n: Indo-Iranian, Indo-Iranian language} the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups
{n: Intelligence Community, National Intelligence Community, United States Intelligence Community, IC} a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
{n: International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders} a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in 1998 that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh
{n: Iraqi National Congress, INC} a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to Saddam Hussein's government of Iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds who hope to build a new government
{n: Irish National Liberation Army, INLA, People's Liberation Army, People's Republican Army, Catholic Reaction Force} a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland
{n: Islamic Army of Aden, IAA, Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan, Aden-Abyan Islamic Army} Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals; seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests; responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing Western tourists in Yemen
{n: Islamic Group of Uzbekistan, IMU, Islamic Party of Turkestan} a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries
{n: Jaish-i-Mohammed, Jaish-e-Muhammad, JEM, Army of Muhammad} a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings
{n: Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Fuqra, Tanzimul Fuqra} an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics
{n: Japanese Red Army, JRA, Anti-Imperialist International Brigade} a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists
"in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel"
{n: Jayshullah} an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999
{n: Jemaah Islamiyah, JI, Islamic Group, Islamic Community, Malaysian Mujahidin Group, Malaysia Militant Group} a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia
{n: Jew, Hebrew, Israelite} a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
{n: Jund-ul-Islam, Soldiers of God} an Islamic extremist group of Kurds who oppose secular control with bombings and assassinations; believed to have ties with al-Qaeda
{n: Kalashnikov culture} the attitudes and behavior in a social group that resolves political disputes by force of arms
"the Kalashnikov culture in Afghanistan"
{n: Kam-Sui} a group of Kadai languages
{n: Kanarese, Canarese} a member of a Kannada-speaking group of people living chiefly in Kanara in southern India
{n: Kaplan Group, Association of Islamic Groups and Communities, Caliphate State} a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran
{n: Khalsa} the group of initiated Sikhs to which devout orthodox Sikhs are ritually admitted at puberty; founded by the tenth and last Guru in 1699
{n: Kordofanian} a group of languages spoken in the relatively small Kordofan area of the south Sudan
{n: Kulanapan} a group of languages of the Hokan family
{n: Kurdistan Workers Party, Kurdistan Labor Pary, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK} a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey
{n: Kurd} a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state
{n: Kwa} a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
{n: Landsteiner, Karl Landsteiner} United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered human blood groups (1868-1943)
{n: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi} a Sunni Muslim extremist group in Pakistan that collaborates with al-Qaeda; the armed wing of Sipah-e-Sahaba
{n: Lashkar-e-Omar, Al Qanoon} a terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda
{n: Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous} the most brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India
"Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus"
{n: Lautaro Youth Movement, Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement, Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces} a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
{n: Leeward Islands} a group of islands in the eastern West Indies
{n: Lesser Antilles, Caribees} a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies
{n: Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, FIG, Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, Libyan Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group} a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
{n: Lichenes, division Lichenes} comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi
{n: Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand} a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
{n: Lord's Resistance Army} a quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army
{n: Loyalist Volunteer Force} a terrorist group formed in 1996 in Northern Ireland; seeks to prevent the peace process; murders Catholics and any Protestant leaders who favor peace
{n: Madeira Islands, Madeiras} a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal
{n: Mafia, Maffia, Sicilian Mafia} a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century
{n: Magnoliidae, subclass Magnoliidae, ranalian complex} a group of families or trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder
{n: Maktab al-Khidmat, MAK} a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fights the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda
{n: Malacopterygii, superorder Malacopterygii} an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays
{n: Malay Archipelago, East Indies, East India} a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
{n: Maldives, Maldive Islands} a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean
{n: Mande} a group of African languages in the Niger-Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far as the Ivory Coast
{n: Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front} a terrorist group formed in 1983 as the armed wing of the Chilean Communist Party
{n: Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad, MDI} a Sunni organization formed in 1989 and based in Pakistan; opposes missionary groups from the United States; has Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as its armed wing
{n: Marquesas Islands, Iles Marquises} a group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
{n: Marshall Islands} a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia
{n: Marut} any of a group of storm gods; offspring of Rudra
{n: Masa} an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages
{n: Mastigomycota, subdivision Mastigomycota, Mastigomycotina, subdivision Mastigomycotina} fungi in which the spores and gametes are motile; in some systems placed in the Phycomycetes group with the Zygomycota
{n: Mbundu, Ovimbundu} an ethnic group speaking Umbundu and living in western Angola
{n: Mennonitism} system of beliefs and practices including belief in scriptural authority; plain dress; adult baptism; foot washing; restriction of marriage to members of the group
{n: Menshevik} a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution
{n: Methodist denomination} group of Methodist congregations
{n: Miniconju} a member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux
{n: Moluccas, Spice Islands} a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands
{n: Moranzanist Patriotic Front} a terrorist group of radical leftists formed in the late 1980s; seeks to prevent the United States from intervening in Honduran economic and political affairs
{n: Moro Islamic Liberation Front} a terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in 1977 to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros; have clashed with troops at United States bases
{n: Nation of Islam} a group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans
{n: National Liberation Army, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ} a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s
{n: National Liberation Army, ELN} a Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade
"ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations"
{n: National Liberation Front of Corsica, FLNC} a terrorist group formed in 1976 to work for Corsican independence; attacks on Corsica are aimed at sabotaging public infrastructure and symbols of colonialism
{n: Nazarene, Ebionite} a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome
{n: Netherlands Antilles} a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands
{n: New Siberian Islands} a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia and east of the Laptev Sea
{n: Nguni} a group of southern Bantu languages
{n: Nilotic, Nilotic language} a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group
{n: O, type O, group O} the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens
"people with type O blood are universal donors"
{n: Oceania, Oceanica} a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
{n: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher, flycatcher} any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing
{n: Omomyid, Omomyid group} extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
{n: Omotic} a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages
{n: Orange Group, OV} a terrorist group of Protestants who oppose any political settlement with Irish nationalists; a paramilitary group that attacks Catholic interests in Northern Ireland
{n: Osco-Umbrian} a group of dead languages of ancient Italy; they were displace by Latin
{n: Osteostraci, suborder Osteostraci, Cephalaspida, suborder Cephalaspida} extinct group of armored fishlike vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear
{n: Ostracodermi, order Ostracodermi} extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear
{n: Ostrogoth} a member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD
{n: Palestine Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini} a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel; smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas
{n: Palestine Liberation Front, PLF, Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah} a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border
{n: Palestinian Hizballah} a little known Palestinian group comprised of members of Hamas and Tanzim with suspected ties to the Lebanese Hizballah; responsible for suicide bombings in Israel
{n: Palestinian} an ethnic group of Arabs formerly living in Palestine
{n: Pathan, Pashtun, Pushtun, Pashtoon} a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan
"Pathans are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan"
{n: Pentagon Gang} a Filipino terrorist group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2001 in order to continue terrorism and kidnapping and extortion
{n: People against Gangsterism and Drugs, PAGAD} a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in 1996 to fight drug lords; evolved into a vigilante group with anti Western views closely allied with Qibla; is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East; is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism
{n: Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi} one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
{n: Permic} a group of Finnic languages spoken in the northwest Urals
{n: Phycomycetes, Phycomycetes group} a large and probably unnatural group of fungi and funguslike organisms comprising the Mastigomycota (including the Oomycetes) and Zygomycota subdivisions of the division Eumycota; a category not used in all systems
{n: Pindaric ode, Pindaric} an ode form used by Pindar; has triple groups of triple units
{n: Pisces} a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not used technically
{n: Placodermi, class Placodermi} extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws
{n: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP} a terrorist group of limited popularity formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War; combined Marxist-Leninist ideology with Palestinian nationalism; used terrorism to gain attention for their cause; hoped to eliminate the state of Israel
{n: Popular Struggle Front, PSF} a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border
{n: Protestant denomination} group of Protestant congregations
{n: Pteridospermae, group Pteridospermae, Pteridospermaphyta, group Pteridospermaphyta} used in some classification systems: a group of extinct fossil gymnosperms coextensive with the order Cycadofilicales
{n: Pulsatilla, genus Pulsatilla} includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers
{n: Puritan} a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
{n: Qibla} a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s; was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini to create an Islamic state in South Africa
{n: Quoratean} a group of languages of the Hokan family
{n: RAM disk} (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors
"access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off"
{n: Raptores, order Raptores} term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes
{n: Real IRA, Real Irish Republican Army, RIRA, Dissident Irish Republican Army} a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire; has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement
{n: Red Army Faction, RAF} a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
{n: Red Hand Defenders, RHD} a paramilitary group of Protestants in Northern Ireland that tries to prevent any political settlement with the Irish Free State; attacks interests of Catholic civilians in Northern Ireland; responsible for arson and bombing and murder
{n: Revolutionary Organization 17 November, 17 November} a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States; an active terrorist group during the 1980s
{n: Revolutionary People's Struggle, ELA} an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States
{n: Revolutionary Proletarian Nucleus, Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei, NIPR} a clandestine group of leftist extremists who oppose Italy's labor policies and foreign policy; responsible for bombing building in the historic center of Rome from 2000 to 2002
{n: Revolutionary United Front, RUF} a terrorist group formed in the 1980s in Sierra Leone; seeks to overthrow the government and gain control of the diamond producing regions; responsible for attacks on civilians and children, widespread torture and murder and using children to commit atrocities; sponsored by the president of Liberia
{n: Rh-negative blood type, Rh-negative blood, Rh negative} the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen)
{n: Rh-positive blood type, Rh positive} the blood group (approximately 85% of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen)
{n: Romance, Romance language, Latinian language} the group of languages derived from Latin
{n: Rosidae, subclass Rosidae} a group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers; contains 108 families including Rosaceae; Crassulaceae; Myrtaceae; Melastomaceae; Euphorbiaceae; Umbelliferae
{n: Rotary Club, Rotary International} a group of businessmen in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace
{n: Salafism, Salafi movement} a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels; seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world
{n: Salafist Group, Salafast Group for Call and Combat, GSPC} an Algerian extremist Islamic offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group; now the largest and most active armed terrorist group in Algeria that seeks to overthrow the government; a major source of support and recruitment for al-Qaeda operations in Europe and northern Africa
{n: Salish} a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America
{n: Samoa, Samoan Islands} a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop
{n: Sanchez, Ilich Sanchez, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos, Carlos the Jackal, Salim, Andres Martinez, Taurus, Glen Gebhard, Hector Hevodidbon, Michael Assat} Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)
{n: Scandinavia} a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian
{n: Semite} a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
{n: Seychelles, Seychelles islands} a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean north of Madagascar
{n: Shaker} a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world
{n: Shastan} a group of languages of the Hokan family in California
{n: Shining Path, Sendero Luminoso, SL} a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade
"Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths"
{n: Sihasapa} a member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux
{n: Sinitic, Sinitic language} a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
{n: Sioux, Siouan} a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
{n: Siraj-ud-daula} Indian general and nawab of Bengal who opposed the colonization of India by England; he captured Calcutta in 1756 and many of his prisoners suffocated in a crowded room that became known as the Black Hole of Calcutta; he was defeated at the battle of Plassey by a group of Indian nobles in alliance with Robert Clive (1728-1757)
{n: Society Islands} an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific east of Samoa
{n: Sophist} any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects
{n: South American Indian} a member of a native Indian group in South America
{n: Special Air Service, SAS} a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups)
{n: Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Giles Lytton Strachey} English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
{n: Tajik, Tadzhik} an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China
{n: Taracahitian} a member of a group of peoples of Mexico
{n: Tatar} a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups)
{n: Teleostei, subclass Teleostei} large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species
{n: Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota} a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains
{n: Tlingit} a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
{n: Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel} twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob
{n: Triple Frontier} the border area where Argentina and Brazil and Paraguay meet; an active South American center for contraband and drug trafficking and money laundering; a suspected locale for Islamic extremist groups
{n: Tuamotu Archipelago, Paumotu Archipelago, Low Archipelago} a group of about 80 coral islands in French Polynesia
{n: Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army, EGTK} a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara; attacks small unprotected targets such as power pylons or oil pipelines or government buildings
{n: Turkish Hizballah} an ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey; seeks to replace Turkey's secular regime with an Islamic state and strict shariah law; responsible for bombings and the torture and murder of Turkish and Kurdish journalists and businessmen; receives support from Iran
{n: Tuvalu, Ellice Islands} a group of coral islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii
{n: Ulster Defense Association, UDA} the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland; responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs
{n: United Self-Defense Force of Colombia, United Self-Defense Group of Colombia, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC} a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members
"the AUC conducted over 800 assassinations in one year"
{n: Ural-Altaic} a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
{n: Virgin Islands} a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain
{n: Visayan Islands, Bisayas} group of islands in the central Philippines
{n: Visigoth} a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France
{n: Volcano Islands} a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean north of the Marianas
{n: Volgaic} a group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river
{n: Walloon} an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France
{n: West African} a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa
{n: West Chadic} a group of Chadic languages spoken in northern Nigeria; Hausa in the most important member
{n: Windward Islands, Windward Isles} a group of islands in the southeastern West Indies; the southern part of the Lesser Antilles
{n: Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf} English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)
{n: Yanan} a language group of the Hokan family
{n: Yeniseian} a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia
{n: Young Turk} a member of one or more of the insurgent groups in Turkey in the late 19th century who rebelled against the absolutism of Ottoman rule
{n: Yuman} a group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico
{n: abbess, mother superior, prioress} the superior of a group of nuns
{n: aberrant} one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
{n: accession} a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
"the art collection grew through accession"
{n: acetyl, acetyl group, acetyl radical, ethanoyl group, ethanoyl radical} the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-)
{n: acetylation} the process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound
"the acetylation of cyclooxygenase-2 by aspirin"
{n: actinolite} a green mineral of the amphibole group; calcium magnesium iron silicate
{n: acyl halide, acid halide} organic compounds containing the group -COX where X is a halogen atom
{n: 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"
{n: acylation} the process of introducing an acyl group into a compound
{n: adaptive radiation} the development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches
{n: adenovirus} any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye
{n: adverbial} a word or group of words function as an adverb
{n: affinity, phylogenetic relation} (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts
"in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans"
{n: affirmative action} a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities
"affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision"
{n: age group, age bracket, cohort} a group people having approximately the same age
{n: agglutination test} a blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglutination occurs helps to identify the antigen; used in tissue matching and blood grouping and diagnosis of infections
{n: air group} a unit of the United States Air Force larger than a squadron and smaller than a wing
{n: al Itihaad al Islamiya, al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, Islamic Unity, AIAI} a fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda; responsible for ambushing United States Army Rangers and for terrorist bombings in Ethiopia; believed to have branches in several countries
{n: al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa} a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups
"al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s"
{n: al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Islamic Group} a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails
"al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule"
{n: al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest} an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells
"the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981"
{n: al-Ma'unah} a radical insurgent Islamist group consisting of disaffected middle-class professionals in Malaysia who want to overthrow the government by violent means and set up an Islamic state
{n: al-Muhajiroun} a hard-line extremist Islamic group in Great Britain who support bin Laden and other terrorist groups
{n: al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base} a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
{n: al-Rashid Trust} a terrorist group organized in 1996 after the Taliban took over Afghanistan and part of Osama bin Laden's international system; provides financial support for the Taliban and al-Qaeda and Jaish-i-Mohammed and assists Muslim militants around the world; established a network of madrasas and mosques in Afghanistan
{n: al-Ummah} a terrorist group formed in India in 1992; is believed to be responsible for bombings in southern India in 1998
{n: alcohol group, alcohol radical} the chemical group -OH
{n: aldehyde group, aldehyde radical} the chemical group -CHO
{n: aldohexose} a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group
{n: aldol, aldehyde-alcohol} an oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde; contains an alcohol group (-OH) and an aldehyde group (-CHO)
{n: aldose} a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal
{n: alkali metal, alkaline metal} any of the monovalent metals of group I of the periodic table (lithium or sodium or potassium or rubidium or cesium or francium)
"the hydroxides of the alkali metals are strongly alkaline"
{n: alkaline earth, alkaline-earth metal} any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium)
{n: alkyl, alkyl group, alkyl radical} any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons
{n: alkylbenzene} organic compound that has an alkyl group bound to a benzene ring
{n: alliance} a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim
{n: allocation unit} a group of sectors on a magnetic disk that can be reserved for the use of a particular file
{n: allyl, allyl group, allyl radical} the univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5; derived from propylene
{n: aluminum business, aluminum industry} manufacturers of aluminum considered as a group
{n: amide} any organic compound containing the group -CONH2
{n: amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid} organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group
"proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids"
{n: amino, amino group} the radical -NH2
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