Rage vs Group - What's the difference?
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Violent uncontrolled anger.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
A current fashion or fad.
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(lb) Any vehement passion.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:in great rage of pain
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*:He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:convulsed with a rage of grief
(label) To act or speak in heightened anger.
(label) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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(label) To enrage.
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
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, title= (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
(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 entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl 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 at the same time not playing teams that belong to other sets in the division.
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In intransitive terms the difference between rage and group
is that rage is {{cx|sometimes|figurative|lang=en}} To move with great violence, as a storm etc while group is to come together to form a group.rage
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* fury * ireDerived terms
* pavement rage * road rage * roid rage * trolley rageVerb
(rag)- The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged ; dire was the noise.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
- (Shakespeare)
Anagrams
* ----group
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Alternative forms
* groupe (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}