畫好的那一圈：一群人或一群東西
目光停在已經畫好的線上，看到的是一整團被算在一起的成員。
noun · B2
A number of people, things, or organizations that are treated as one set, because they act together, or because they share the same interests, qualities, or features.
群體；一組
核心畫面
One way to hold this word is to see a hand drawing a circle around part of a crowd. The circle is what grouping is about: the line that says these belong together and those do not. Look at the ring once it is drawn and you have the set that was made. Look at the hand still moving and you have the work of making it. The two meanings are the same picture, seen a second apart.
可以想成有一隻手在人群裡畫圈。這個字的重點就在那條線上：線裡面的算同一團，線外面的不算。把目光放在畫好的圈上，就是「…更多收起
可以想成有一隻手在人群裡畫圈。這個字的重點就在那條線上：線裡面的算同一團，線外面的不算。把目光放在畫好的圈上，就是「分出來的那一群」。把目光放在還在移動的手上，就是「分組這件事」。兩個意思其實是同一個畫面，只差看的時間點。Two branches
還在動的那隻手：把東西分組
目光移回那隻手上，看到的就不是結果，而是畫線這個動作本身。
noun · B2
The act of putting people or things into groups, usually by sorting them according to something they share.
分組；歸類
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
groupingnoun/ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/
- 1
A collection of things or people united as a group.
- In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.
- 2
Combining into groups.
- 3
Shot grouping.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。