Pop Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to make a short, quick, explosive sound: The cork popped. | | 2. | to burst open with such a sound, as chestnuts or corn in roasting. | | 3. | to come or go quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: She popped into the kitchen to check the stove. | | 4. | to shoot with a firearm: to pop at a mark. | | 5. | to protrude from the sockets: The news made her eyes pop. | | 6. | Baseball. | a. | to hit a pop fly (often fol. by up). | | –verb (used with object) | 7. | to cause to make a sudden, explosive sound. | | 8. | to cause to burst open with such a sound. | | 9. | to open suddenly or violently: to pop the hood on a car; to pop the tab on a beer can. | | 10. | to put or thrust quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: He popped the muffins into the oven. | | 11. | Informal. to cause to fire; discharge: He popped his rifle at the bird. | | 12. | to shoot (usually fol. by at, off, etc.): He popped off bottles with a slingshot. |
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| 13. | British Slang. to pawn. | | 14. | Informal. | a. | to take or swallow (pills), esp. in excess or habitually; take orally in a compulsive or addictive way: Popping all those pills will land him in the hospital. | | b. | to eat in a continual or thoughtless manner, as snack foods: popping peanuts at the movies. | | –noun | 15. | a short, quick, explosive sound. | | 17. | a shot with a firearm. | | 19. | a drink or portion of an alcoholic beverage, as a drink of whiskey or a glass of beer: We had a couple of pops on the way home. | –adverb | 21. | with an explosive sound: The balloon went pop. | | 22. | quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: Pop, the door flew open! | –adjective | 23. | Informal. unexpected; without prior warning or announcement: The teacher gave us a pop quiz. | —Verb phrases | 24. | pop for, Slang. to pay or buy for oneself or another, esp. as a gift or treat; spring for: I'll pop for the first round of drinks. | | 25. | pop off, Informal. | a. | to die, esp. suddenly. | | b. | to depart, esp. abruptly. | | c. | to express oneself volubly or excitedly and sometimes irately or indiscreetly: He popped off about the injustice of the v
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erdict. | | | 26. | pop out, Baseball. to be put out by hitting a pop fly caught on the fly by a player on the opposing team. | | 27. | pop up, Baseball. to hit a pop fly. | —Idioms | 28. | a pop, Slang. each; apiece: five orchids at $30 a pop. | | 29. | pop in, Informal. to visit briefly and unexpectedly; stop in; drop by: Maybe we'll pop in after the movie. | | 30. | pop the question, Informal. t
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Group Definition–noun | 1. | any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings. | | 2. | a number of persons or things ranged or considered together as being related in some way. | | 3. | Also called radical. Chemistry. two or more atoms specifically arranged, as the hydroxyl group, –OH. Compare free radical. | | 4. | Linguistics. | a. | (in the classification of related languages within a family) a category of a lower order than a subbranch and of a higher order than a subgroup: the Low German group of West Germanic languages. | | b. | any grouping of languages, whether it is made on the basis of geography, genetic relationship, or something else. | | | 5. | Geology. a division of stratified rocks comprising two or more formations. | | 6. | Military. | a. | Army. a flexible administrative and tactical unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters. | | b. | Air Force. an administrative and operational unit subordinate to a wing, usually composed of two or more squadrons. | | | 7. | Music. a section of an orchestra comprising the instruments of the sa
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me class. | | 8. | Art. a number of figures or objects shown in an arrangement together. | | 9. | Mathematics. an algebraic system that is closed under an associative operation, as multiplication or addition, and in which there is an identity element that, on operating on another element, leaves the second element unchanged, and in which each element has corresponding to it a unique element that, on operating on the first, results in the identity element. | | 10. | Grammar (chiefly British ). a phrase: nominal group; verbal group. | –verb (used with object) | 11. | to place or associate together in a group, as with others. | | 12. | to arrange in or form into a group or groups. | –verb (used without object) | 14. | to be part of a group. | |
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