| comprising |
| 1. v. present participle of comprise | |
| comprise |
| 1. v. To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts). | |
| The whole comprises the parts. | |
| The parts are comprised by the whole.However, the passive voice of comprise must be employed carefully to make sense. Phrases such as "animals and cages are comprised by zoos" or "pitchers, cat | |
| 2. v. To contain or embrace. | |
| Our committee comprises a president, secretary, treasurer and five other members. | |
| 3. v. (sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose, to constitute. See usage note below. | |
| A team is comprised of its members. | |
| The members comprise the team. | |
| 4. v. (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential, to define an invention. ("Open-ended", doesn't limit to the items listed; cf. compo | |
| various |
| 1. det. More than one (of an indeterminate set of things). | |
| Various books have been taken. | |
| There are various ways to fix the problem. | |
| You have broken various of the rules. | |
| 2. adj. Having a broad range (of different elements). | |
| The reasons are various. | |
| 3. adj. (dated) That varies or differs from others; variant; different. | |
| a various reading of a Biblical text | |
| linguistic |
| 1. adj. Of or relating to language. | |
| 2. adj. Of or relating to linguistics. | |
| 3. adj. (computing) Relating to a computer language. | |
| groups |
| 1. n. plural of group | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of group | |
| group |
| 1. n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. | |
| there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group | |
| A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals. | |
| 2. n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. | |
| 3. n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve. | |
| 4. n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together. | |
| Did you see the new jazz group? | |
| 5. n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other. | |
| 6. n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements. | |
| 7. n. (chemistry) A functional group. | |
| Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group. | |
| 8. n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society. | |
| 9. n. (military) An air force formation. | |
| 10. n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata. | |
| 11. n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. | |
| 12. n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. | |
| 13. n. (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. | |
| 14. n. (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. | |
| 15. n. (business) A commercial organization. | |
| 16. v. To put together to form a group. | |
| group the dogs by hair colour | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group. | |
