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together | group |

As an adverb together

is at the same time, in the same place; in close association.

As an adjective together

is (colloquial) well organized, well developed.

As a noun group is

a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

As a verb group is

to put together to form a group.

together

Adverb

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  • At the same time, in the same place; in close association.
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  • Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
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  • In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
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  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}

    Synonyms

    * collectively * jointly

    Antonyms

    * apart

    Derived terms

    * add together * all together * altogether * band together * belong together * birds of a feather flock together * clap together * close together * come together * draw together * fudge together * get together/get-together * huddle together * knock together * live together * lump together * put together * scrape together * sleep together * stay together * stick together * tack together * throw together * together with * togetherdom * togetherful * togetherhood * togetherish * togetherless * togetherlike * togetherly * togetherness * togethership * togethersome * togetherwise * untogether

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (colloquial) well organized, well developed.
  • He’s really together .

    group

    English

    Alternative forms

    * groupe (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
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  • , title= 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.}}
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  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • (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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  • Synonyms

    * (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other) collection, set * (people who perform music together) band, ensemble * See also

    Hypernyms

    * (in group theory) monoid

    Derived terms

    * Abelian group, abelian group * encounter group * factor group * free group * fundamental group * general linear group * girl group * group homomorphism * group isomorphism * group leader * group representation * group theory * Lie group * Local Group * minority group * p -group * pop group * quotient group * simple group * subgroup

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put together to form a group.
  • 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