group vs marshal

group

noun
  • A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. 

  • A column in the periodic table of chemical elements. 

  • An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. 

  • A (usually small) group of people who perform music together. 

  • An air force formation. 

  • A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. 

  • A subset of a culture or of a society. 

  • A functional group. 

  • A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other. 

  • A collection of formations or rock strata. 

  • 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. 

  • A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. 

  • A commercial organization. 

  • A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division. 

verb
  • To come together to form a group. 

  • To put together to form a group. 

marshal

noun
  • A person in charge of the ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering. 

  • A federal lawman. 

  • A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general. 

  • A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal. 

verb
  • To arrange (facts, etc.) in some methodical order. 

  • To gather data for transmission. 

  • To arrange (troops, etc.) in line for inspection or a parade. 

  • To serialize an object into a marshalled state represented by a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties. 

  • To ceremoniously guide, conduct or usher. 

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