Club vs Community - What's the difference?
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A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything(w).
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, title= #An implement to hit the ball in some ballgames, e.g. golf.
An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club , or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
#(lb) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
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#*:He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
*:They laid down the club .
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club .
An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
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A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
#A playing card marked with such a symbol.
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(lb) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
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to hit with a club.
To join together to form a group.
* Dryden
(transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
To go to nightclubs.
To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
* Jonathan Swift
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
(nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
* {{quote-book
, year=1876
, author=Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S.
, title=A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition
, publisher=London: William Clowes & Sons
, page=80
, passage=To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.
}}
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
(military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
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* Wordsworth
A commune, or residential or religious collective.
The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
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, title= (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
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* (Washington Irving)
(obsolete) common character; likeness.
* H. Spencer
(obsolete) commonness; frequency
* Shakespeare
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As nouns the difference between club and community
is that club is club (association of members) while community is a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law see civilization.club
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs ,
Synonyms
* (weapon) cudgel * (sports association) teamHyponyms
* *Derived terms
* benefit club * clubbing * clubfoot * clubhouse * club sandwich * golf club * nightclub * on the clubVerb
(clubb)- He clubbed the poor dog.
- Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
- to club the expense
- to club exertions
Anagrams
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English
Noun
(wikipedia community) (communities)- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
- Creatures that in communities exist.
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.}}
- The original community of all things.
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- Eyes sick and blunted with community .