FACTIONAL Synonyms

• a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

• a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

• engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

• temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

• a group of people living together in a camp

• temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

• a penal institution (often for forced labor)

• something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality

• shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

• a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months

• providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities

• live in or as if in a tent

• establish or set up a camp

• give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

• a person who dissents from some established policy

• characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

• disagreeing, especially with a majority

• dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

• an association of criminals

• an informal body of friends

• an organized group of workmen

• tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together

• act as an organized group

• any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

• a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

• arrange into a group or groups

• form a group or group together

• devoted to a cause or party

• a fervent and even militant proponent of something

• an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

• a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries

• an organization to gain political power

• a gathering of people for pleasure

• a band of people associated temporarily in some activity

• an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment

• a person involved in legal proceedings

• have or participate in a party

• a subdivision of a larger religious group

• a dissenting clique

• a member of a sect

• a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)

• a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope

• a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people

• one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object

• a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon

• one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole

• a land unit equal to 1 square mile

• (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid

• a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately

• a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class

• a small army unit usually having a special function

• a specialized division of a large organization

• a segment of a citrus fruit

• the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)

• divide into segments

• a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal

• withdraw from an organization or communion

• divide into slivers or splinters

• break up into splinters or slivers

• extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)

• an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea

• a bottle containing half the usual amount

• a promised or claimed share of loot or money

• a lengthwise crack in wood

• an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

• a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts

• (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl

• an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity

• the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

• division of a group into opposing factions

• having been divided; having the unity destroyed

• (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain

• separate into parts or portions

• separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

• go one's own way; move apart

• come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure

• a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)

• one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane

• a stage area out of sight of the audience

• a unit of military aircraft

• the side of military or naval formation

• a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side

• (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft

• a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function

• the wing of a fowl

• a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud

• an addition that extends a main building

• travel through the air; be airborne