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drove
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d???v/
- Rhymes: -??v
- (General American) IPA: /d?o?v/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) IPA(key): /d??o?v/ (Used in some regions of the US, particularly the Midwest)
Etymology 1
From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English dr?f (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draib? (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to support”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.
Noun
drove (plural droves)
- A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
Derived terms
- in droves
Translations
Etymology 2
From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English dr?f, first and third person singular indicative preterite of dr?fan (“to drive”).
Verb
drove
- simple past tense of drive
drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)
- To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
- (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Devor, Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored
Middle English
Adjective
drove
- Alternative form of drof
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group
English
Alternative forms
- groop (non-standard)
- groupe (obsolete)
Etymology
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”), Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”), Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gro?op, IPA(key): /??u?p/
- Rhymes: -u?p
Noun
group (plural groups)
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,
- Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
- 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112,
- In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).
- 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,
- In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).
- 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,
- (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- (chemistry) A functional group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- (military) An air force formation.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- (music) 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.
- (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (business) A commercial organization.
Synonyms
- (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
- (people who perform music together): band, ensemble
- See also Thesaurus:group
Hypernyms
- (in group theory): monoid
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- subgroup
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ?????
- ? Japanese: ???? (gur?pu)
- ? Korean: ?? (geurup)
- ? Tongan: kulupu
Translations
References
- group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)
- (transitive) To put together to form a group.
- group the dogs by hair colour
- (intransitive) To come together to form a group.
Synonyms
- (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
- (come together to form a group): assemble, begather, foregather, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble
Translations
Further reading
- group in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- group in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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