What part of speech is grouping?

Grouping can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. grouping is a verb, gerund of group (infinitive).
  • 2. grouping is a noun, singular of groupings.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does grouping mean?

Definitions

Verb

group - form a group or group together
group - arrange into a group or groups; "Can you group these shapes together?"

Noun

grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups
grouping - a system for classifying things into groups
grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

Examples of grouping

#   Sentence  
1. noun This little grouping of chairs looks like a horse.
2. noun A grouping of local businesses held a canned food drive for the homeless this past Saturday.
3. noun C structures allow the grouping of scalar variables, such as the coordinates of a point.
4. noun New Zealand is a grouping of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Australia. It has a population of 4.5 million people.
5. noun Changing the grouping of addends does not change the sum.
6. noun Changing the grouping of factors does not change the product.
7. noun Someone who called himself Abu Hafs from the Ibn Al-Khattab Brigades (another new group) was on Al-Jazeera describing the enormous casualties among the Marines and he sweared that American soldiers were mutilating the bodies of dead insurgents.
8. noun But so was it unlikely that a small group of Arab mujahidin would virtually take over Afghanistan.
9. noun Democrats are spitting mad over attacks on John Kerry’s record by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
10. noun I've read the book- it's a first person memoir with the ring of truth, especially since so much of the wider context has confirmed the allegations of Contra drug connections that led to Terrell becoming a target for discrediting by the TWIG counterintelligence group that ran interference for the Contra effort, staffed by covert ops types including Ollie North, Robert Owen, Vince Cannistaro and Buck Revell.
11. noun In early February, India charged 34 Arakan separatists from Myanmar with hiding in the Landfall Islands, part of the Andaman Islands group (see end note).
12. noun The Andaman Sea is a major conduit for this traffic, and the 572 large and small islands that constitute the Andaman and Nicobar group are a natural transit base.
13. noun And the Moldovan airline used to transport the shipment was blasted by the UN in 2003 for smuggling arms to Liberia, human rights group Amnesty has discovered.
14. noun CRACKDOWN ON POLYGAMY GROUP.
15. noun Now, FLDS leader Warren Jeffs has been added to the FBI's list of "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives," a move that caps law enforcement's dramatic change of approach toward the polygamous group in recent years...[because of] the impact that the group's practices, law enforcement officials say, are having on the most vulnerable within the sect, particularly children and women.
16. verb Mandeep found that grouping the kids into fours or fives yielded the best results.
17. verb That's an odd note grouping for that chord. Try spreading it out over two octaves instead of one.
18. verb Can you group these shapes together?
Sentence  
noun
This little grouping of chairs looks like a horse.
A grouping of local businesses held a canned food drive for the homeless this past Saturday.
C structures allow the grouping of scalar variables, such as the coordinates of a point.
New Zealand is a grouping of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Australia. It has a population of 4.5 million people.
Changing the grouping of addends does not change the sum.
Changing the grouping of factors does not change the product.
Someone who called himself Abu Hafs from the Ibn Al-Khattab Brigades (another new group) was on Al-Jazeera describing the enormous casualties among the Marines and he sweared that American soldiers were mutilating the bodies of dead insurgents.
But so was it unlikely that a small group of Arab mujahidin would virtually take over Afghanistan.
Democrats are spitting mad over attacks on John Kerry’s record by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
I've read the book- it's a first person memoir with the ring of truth, especially since so much of the wider context has confirmed the allegations of Contra drug connections that led to Terrell becoming a target for discrediting by the TWIG counterintelligence group that ran interference for the Contra effort, staffed by covert ops types including Ollie North, Robert Owen, Vince Cannistaro and Buck Revell.
In early February, India charged 34 Arakan separatists from Myanmar with hiding in the Landfall Islands, part of the Andaman Islands group (see end note).
The Andaman Sea is a major conduit for this traffic, and the 572 large and small islands that constitute the Andaman and Nicobar group are a natural transit base.
And the Moldovan airline used to transport the shipment was blasted by the UN in 2003 for smuggling arms to Liberia, human rights group Amnesty has discovered.
CRACKDOWN ON POLYGAMY GROUP.
Now, FLDS leader Warren Jeffs has been added to the FBI's list of "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives," a move that caps law enforcement's dramatic change of approach toward the polygamous group in recent years...[because of] the impact that the group's practices, law enforcement officials say, are having on the most vulnerable within the sect, particularly children and women.
verb
Mandeep found that grouping the kids into fours or fives yielded the best results.
That's an odd note grouping for that chord. Try spreading it out over two octaves instead of one.
Can you group these shapes together?

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