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Group vs Groop - What's the difference?

group | groop |

As nouns the difference between group and groop

is that group is a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another while groop is a trench or small ditch.

As verbs the difference between group and groop

is that group is to put together to form a group while groop is to make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

group

English

Alternative forms

* groupe (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
  • * , 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
  • (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
  • (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
  • A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
  • (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
  • (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
  • (chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.
  • (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
  • (military) An air force formation.
  • (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
  • (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
  • An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
  • (music) 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.
  • (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while at the same time not playing teams that belong to other sets in the division.
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    • Synonyms

    * (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other) collection, set * (people who perform music together) band, ensemble * See also

    Hypernyms

    * (in group theory) monoid

    Derived terms

    * Abelian group, abelian group * encounter group * factor group * free group * fundamental group * general linear group * girl group * group homomorphism * group isomorphism * group leader * group representation * group theory * Lie group * Local Group * minority group * p -group * pop group * quotient group * simple group * subgroup

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put together to form a group.
  • To come together to form a group.

    • Synonyms

    * (put together to form a group) amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    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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