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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grouping
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broad
▪ The relationship between the Lydende Party and other broader groupings of Elandsklowers was complex and was further complicated by family feuds.
different
▪ The different thematic groupings are interchangeable, impermanent and contingent.
▪ There were twenty-eight different groupings of four words each.
▪ Sixteen parties were represented in the new Chamber of Deputies; about 50 different parties or groupings had put up candidates.
▪ Initially, you might discern the larger category of three different word groupings.
▪ Within any particular society, with its cultures, social classes and life-styles, there will be many different social groupings.
▪ If one is to study the aging process, one would presumably want to examine persons from different age groupings.
▪ The different age groupings, in particular, would make accurate comparisons impossible.
large
▪ With a slider it is possible to fish a much larger grouping of bulk shot well below the drifting layers of water.
▪ They see these larger regional groupings as economic insurance policies guaranteeing their participation in the world economy.
▪ Within families, villages and larger social groupings a sense of solidarity prevailed.
▪ Most of those who left were members of the faction associated with Roh Tae Woo, the largest grouping within the party.
▪ Other animals pair for life, but never congregate into larger groupings.
main
▪ The main grouping of riders at any time in the race.
▪ Up to the late 1960s, catholic nationalists were split between two main political groupings.
▪ The main groupings are shown in Figure 3.
new
▪ The current Socialist leader suggested his party form part of a new grouping of the left.
▪ When this happens, the individuals may disperse or they may stay together in new groupings.
other
▪ For other purposes narrower groupings within the market-industrialised category may be more appropriate.
▪ Numerous other parties and groupings were formed during the month.
▪ Five-year age groups are usual but, of course, other groupings could be used.
▪ While many clubs, organisations and other groupings have constitutions, our concern is with the constitutions of nation-states.
▪ Also present within civil society are various other social groupings, particularly those based on gender, race, generation and nation.
▪ The other parties and groupings performed largely as expected.
political
▪ These mostly reflected the emergence and subsequent disappearance of various political groupings and parties.
▪ Last night political groupings which had been silent during the Prince's official visit resumed activity.
▪ The major political groupings themselves had different attitudes towards moral regulation in the later part of the century.
▪ Up to the late 1960s, catholic nationalists were split between two main political groupings.
▪ The political tension, both between the king and heir and between the political groupings, rose rapidly.
▪ It was no longer a matter of one family or political grouping showing that it was domestically more powerful than any other.
regional
▪ Status: Regional grouping for free trade between member countries and for promotion of wider free trade co-operation.
▪ They see these larger regional groupings as economic insurance policies guaranteeing their participation in the world economy.
▪ They were organized into regional groupings to call on individual doctors.
social
▪ Hierarchical ranking operated within each social grouping as well as between members of different groups.
▪ The family is a basic social grouping, and it has an all pervading influence over its members.
▪ In the meantime, what are the natural levels of social grouping for other animal species?
▪ Hierarchy A social hierarchy, peck-order, or social dominance grouping consists of individuals that are ranked according to their status.
▪ Also present within civil society are various other social groupings, particularly those based on gender, race, generation and nation.
▪ Within families, villages and larger social groupings a sense of solidarity prevailed.
▪ Broadly speaking, the less social closure there is, the less cohesive the social class grouping will be.
▪ These are the ten basic types of social grouping.
various
▪ These mostly reflected the emergence and subsequent disappearance of various political groupings and parties.
▪ Over lunch and dinner tables, at parties, and in various informal groupings, the Labour revisionists decided what to do.
▪ Also present within civil society are various other social groupings, particularly those based on gender, race, generation and nation.
■ NOUN
opposition
▪ The 488 delegates, including representatives from about 50 opposition groupings, met in Cotonou on Feb. 19-28.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Council of the African Synod is a grouping of bishops from 16 African nations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apart from their conceit, these diverse yet inter-dependent groupings share a statist conception of antiracism.
▪ Compared with shifting coalitions of Independent councillors, party groupings can make for coherent policy planning and administration.
▪ Five-year age groups are usual but, of course, other groupings could be used.
▪ Hospitals are often composed of groupings based around particular medical skills such as physiotherapy or radiology.
▪ Initially, you might discern the larger category of three different word groupings.
▪ The Cashmere grouping of businesses generated excellent figures in total helped by a cashmere volume increase of around 30%.
▪ There were twenty-eight different groupings of four words each.
▪ These mostly reflected the emergence and subsequent disappearance of various political groupings and parties.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grouping

Grouping \Group"ing\ (gr[=oo]p"[i^]ng), n. (Fine Arts) The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.

Grouping

Group \Group\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grouped; p. pr. & vb. n. Grouping.] [Cf. F. grouper. See Group, n.] To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects.
--Prior. [1913 Webster] Grouped columns (Arch.), three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal.

Wiktionary
grouping

n. 1 A collection of things or people united as a group. 2 The action of the verb '''to group'''. vb. (present participle of group English)

WordNet
grouping
  1. n. any number of entities (members) considered as a unit [syn: group]

  2. the activity of putting things together in groups

  3. a system for classifying things into groups [syn: pigeonholing]

Wikipedia
Grouping

Grouping may refer to:

  • Muenchian grouping
  • Principles of grouping
  • Railways Act 1921, also known as Grouping Act, a reorganisation of the British railway system
  • Grouping (firearms), the pattern of multiple shots from a sidearm

Usage examples of "grouping".

Here I scarcely miss, So masterly the grouping, so distinct The bacchanalian spirit, your rich brush, So vigorous in color.

With the grouping of the settlements into kingdoms and the consolidation of Mercia under Offa, Buckinghamshire was included in Mercia until, with the submission of that kingdom to the Northmen, it became part of the Danelaw.

Without attempting to enter into details which would be unbecoming to the modesty of a single volume, one may indicate what the other more important groupings were during the course of these months, and which were the columns that took part in them.

Assorted couches, tables, and chairs were arranged in three neat groupings.

Above the town there were groupings of houses and dovecotes, small white cubes set down on harsh gray earth, with long walls of rough gray stones forming terraces to hold whatever soil there was from slipping into the bay.

This is accomplished by grouping according to the ridge counts of loops and the ridge tracings of whorls.

It was not such a shore as is usually formed by nature, either by extending a vast carpet of sand, or by grouping masses of rock, but a beautiful border consisting of the most splendid trees.

Cold War also produced the neoconservative academic and bureaucratic grouping, whose members between 2001 and 2003 critically influenced the administration of George W.

Drummond could see the oilskinned figures grouping around her triple-mounted torpedo tubes, the purposeful way they were even now turning athwartships.

As they drove away, Sophie surveyed the Wilson homestead: two shacks and a sod hut, a grouping made only a little less desolate by the nearby creek with cottonwoods growing along it.

Labour Zionist splinter grouping with a strong Yiddishist orientation.

It is a science of human aggregations, of all possible family groupings, of neighbours and neighbourhood, of companies, associations, unions, secret and public societies, religious groupings, of common ends and intercourse, and of the methods of intercourse and collective decision that hold human groups together, and finally of government and the State.

She went quickly through each with the man to ensure he fully understood what her notes meant, agreeing at once to his suggestion of separate master databases for her three groupings, with the new comparison charts and individual murder case notes sub-programmed, compartmenting everything in precise sections with itemized indexed entry codes.

Sexual Selection -- On the generality of intercrosses between individuals of the same species -- Circumstances favourable and unfavourable to Natural Selection, namely, intercrossing, isolation, number of individuals -- Slow action -- Extinction caused by Natural Selection -- Divergence of Character, related to the diversity of inhabitants of any small area, and to naturalisation -- Action of Natural Selection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common parent -- Explains the Grouping of all organic beings.

This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations.