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Webster 1828 Edition
Groop
GROOP
,Noun.
1.
A cluster, crowd or throng; an assemblage,either of persons or things; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement; as a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.2.
In painting and sculpture, an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts or other things which have some relation to each other.Definition 2024
groop
groop
English
Alternative forms
- grupe, groap, grube
Noun
groop (plural groops)
- (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch.
- (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
- 2008, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones:
- Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.
- (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A pen for cattle; a byre.
Verb
groop (third-person singular simple present groops, present participle grooping, simple past and past participle grooped)
- (obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.
Etymology 2
Alteration of group. More at group.
Noun
groop (plural groops)
- Alternative form of group
- 1985, Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz, Design Theory (Mathematics), Digitized edition, Bibliographisches Institut, published 2010, ISBN 9783411016754, page 560:
- Delete one point x and consider as new groops the point sets B\{x} where B is any block of D containing x.
- 2004, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 (Mathematics), University of Waterloo, page 90:
- A groop divisible design on v points with groop size g and block size k is called a t-GD[k,g,;v] if every subset of t distinct points that contains no two points from the same groop is contained in exactly one block.
Verb
groop (third-person singular simple present groops, present participle grooping, simple past and past participle grooped)
- Alternative form of group
References
- “groop” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- groop in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911