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A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Related titles should be described in Group, while unrelated titles should be moved to Group (disambiguation) Look up group in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A group is a number of persons or things that are located, gathered, or classed together.
A reference group is a group to which an individual or another group is compared, used by sociologists in reference to any group that is used by an individual as a standard for evaluating themselves and their own behavior. More simply, as explained by Thompson and Hickey (2005), such groups are ones "that people refer to when evaluating their ...
derived subgroup Synonym for commutator subgroup. direct product The direct product of two groups G and H, denoted G × H, is the cartesian product of the underlying sets of G and H, equipped with a component-wise defined binary operation (g 1, h 1) · (g 2, h 2) = (g 1 ⋅ g 2, h 1 ⋅ h 2).
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
group of friends or colleagues ("I saw him and his crew at the bar") rowing as a sport crib (n.) nativity scene, crèche (q.v.) * a manger or rack, or stall for cattle a plagiarism, as of a student ("crib sheet") cribbage: small enclosed bedstead for a child; hence crib death (UK: cot) (informal) one's house or apartment a bin for storing maize
In this usage, a leaving group is a less formal but more commonly used synonym of the term nucleofuge. In this context, leaving groups are generally anions or neutral species, departing from neutral or cationic substrates, respectively, though in rare cases, cations leaving from a dicationic substrate are also known. [3]
A social group exhibits some degree of social cohesion and is more than a simple collection or aggregate of individuals, such as people waiting at a bus stop, or people waiting in a line. Characteristics shared by members of a group may include interests, values, representations, ethnic or social background, and kinship ties.