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. ※ {Grouped columns} (Arch.), three or more columns placed upon the same pedestal.
Group \Group\ (gr[=oo]p), n. [F groupe, It. gruppo, groppo, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. origin: cf. G. kropf craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See {Crop}, n.] 1. A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
2. An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
3. (Biol.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
4. (Mus.) 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.
Residue \Res"i*due\ (r?z"?-d?), n. [F. r['e]sidu, L. residuum, fr. residuus that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to remain behind. See {Reside}, and cf. {Residuum}.] 1. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.
The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. --Jer. xv. 9.
If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved. --I. Taylor.
2. (Law) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.
3. (Chem.) That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; a {moiety} or {group}; -- used as nearly equivalent to {radical}, but in a more general sense. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Note: The term radical is sometimes restricted to groups containing carbon, the term residue and {moiety} being applied to the others.
4. (Theory of Numbers) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.
This, combined with the container division talks, suggests the group's bankers might be considering an orderly disposal of all assets.
Citizens Financial Group Inc. has agreed to be acquired for $440 million by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the sixth-largest banking group in the United Kingdom.
The eager beaver tries to take over the group but generally isn't the best person.
The two-story frame farm house and the surrounding 25 acres in suburban Mount Pleasant had been slated for part of a residential development, but a citizens group known as Friends of Historic Snee Farm took title to the property over the weekend.
Simpson, an economist who has spent ten years in the packaging industry, will be responsible for the collective performance of the group's Newcastle and Thatcham factories.
She said only two of about 150 candidates supported by the ultra-right nationalist group Pamyat survived the first round.
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation yesterday announced its second investment in Chinese container ports in 10 days. The group is to take a controlling stake in the Yangtze river port of Zhangjiagang.
A French humanitarian group said Wednesday it was withdrawing part of its claim about the use of toxic gas during street protests in Soviet Georgia last month in which 19 people were killed.
The group has a strong position in Brazil, but so far no presence in China, where it is likely to go for joint ventures. Mr Herbert said: 'We've had the time and access for extensive research and due diligence.
Preussag AG announced plans to acquire the Salzgitter AG steelmaking and engineering group from the West German government for a price reportedly exceeding two billion marks ($1.06 billion).
But for the moment, says Mr. Keynes, his son's arrangements cost less than a conventional group home.
He became president of Nynex Mobile in 1986, and has briefly been chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the main trade group for the cellular industry.
It takes very little low margin domestic waste. Margins in the special waste division rose from 8 per cent to more than 20 per cent as the group moved out of treatment of bulk products and focused more on smaller, more hazardous chemicals.
On Wednesday, however, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., jury convicted record store owner Charles Freeman of obscenity for selling a sexually explicit record by the rap group 2 Live Crew.
But, although he admitted resorting to cannibalism to stay alive after the group became stranded in the snow, Packer maintained until his death that he had killed only one.
Soviet journalists threatened a strike and a group of legislators on Tuesday accused President Mikhail S. Gorbachev of using "pressure tactics" in his rebuke of some prominent, outspoken editors.
The big aluminum producer said the reorganization would result in Aluminum Co. of Canada replacing Alcan as the parent of the Alcan group.
The electrical-equipment group posted a surge in net income with the aid of one-time gains.
Last year a British group walked to the South Pole but had to be rescued by the U.S. National Science Foundation after ice crushed the boat that was to have been used for the return voyage.
Mr Cedric Brown, chief executive, said the group was at the start of a 'complete and radical transformation'.
"The IRS is to be complimented for a respectable compromise," says Navin, who also is an official of the Tax Executives Institute, a corporate group.
Phoebe-Putney Memorial Hospital is sponsoring a support group for relatives and offering private counseling.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission announcing the proxy contest, the dissident group indicated disastifaction with the board's decision to reject a recent financial restructuring plan it had proposed.
'We are not going away until that number is achieved,' says Mr Andrew Procassini, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the US industry trade group.
A group of gay guests, he says, raises the danger "of threatening order" at the facility by causing other guests too much anxiety.
Oddly, the computer-aided group didn't recognize that using the programs led to poor decisions.
But it is evident he is the principal political and military strategist of the group.
Separately, Chiron said it formed a new company with a group of venture capital investors to concentrate on discovering and developing cancer therepeutics using biotechnology.
"One of our tests is to keep the audience where they are, because there is a tendency for an audience to join in," said Jeremy Alliger, head of an avant-garde performance group called The Dance Umbrella, which is presenting the Boston shows.
The group announced agreements with the state and private developers to conserve land around the pond where Thoreau built an cabin and lived for two years, and also promoted an effort to create affordable housing in nearby Concord.