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Groop vs Troop - What's the difference?

groop | troop |

As nouns the difference between groop and troop

is that groop is a trench or small ditch or groop can be while troop is a collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

As verbs the difference between groop and troop

is that groop is (obsolete) to make a channel or groove; to form grooves or groop can be while troop is to move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.

groop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) grope, grupe, groupe, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trench or small ditch.
  • A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1816 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=James Cleland , title=Annals of Glasgow , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=373 , passage=The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, … }}
  • *2008 , Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones :
    • Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop , sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.
  • A pen for cattle; a byre.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of group. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1828 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=William Taylor , title=Historic Survey of German Poetry , chapter= citation , genre=Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter , publisher= , isbn= , page=179 , passage=Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ... }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1834 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Charles Augustus Davis , title=Letters of J. Downing, Major , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Harper & Brothers , isbn= , page=158 , passage=… and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there; }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1985 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz , title=Design Theory , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=Bibliographisches Institut , isbn=9783411016754 , page=560 , passage=Delete one point x'' and consider as new groops the point sets ''B\{x}'' where ''B'' is any block of D containing ''x . }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization , title=Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=University of Waterloo , isbn= , page=90 , passage=A groop''' divisible design'' on ''v'' points with '''groop''' size ''g'' and block size ''k'' is called a ''t-GD[k,g,;v]'' if every subset of ''t'' distinct points that contains no two points from the same ' groop is contained in exactly one block. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1810 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor=Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson , author= , title=The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=485 , passage=I GROOPED in thy pocket pretty peate. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1829 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author= , title=The Battle of Navarino: Or the Renegade , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=40 , passage=Grooped around the fires on which they were preparing their provisions, … }}

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    troop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
  • * Shakespeare
    • That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
  • (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
  • A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
  • Soldiers, military forces (usually "troops").
  • * Shakespeare
    • Farewell the plumed troop , and the big wars.
  • * Macaulay
    • His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
  • (nonstandard) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
  • (label) A basic unit of girl or boy scouts, consisting of 6 to 10 youngsters.
  • A group of baboons.
  • A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
  • (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.

    • Derived terms

    * trooper * troopship * troop carrier

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
  • To march on; to go forward in haste.
  • To move or march as if in a crowd.

    • Derived terms

    * troop the colour (qualifier)

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