Group vs Push - What's the difference?

In military terms the difference between group and push

is that group is an air force formation while push is a marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.

In computing terms the difference between group and push

is that group is a number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals while push is the addition of a data item to the top of a stack.

In lang=en terms the difference between group and push

is that group is 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 while push is a crowd or throng or people.

In transitive terms the difference between group and push

is that group is to put together to form a group while push is to continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).

In intransitive terms the difference between group and push

is that group is to come together to form a group while push is to continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.

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.}}

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, 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.

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

push

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ).

Verb

(es)

(intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.

You need to push quite hard to get this door open.

To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.

* Jonathan Swift

We are pushed for an answer.

* Spectator

Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour to the actor.

To press or urge forward; to drive.

to push''' an objection too far; to '''push one's luck

* Dryden

to push his fortune

To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).

Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested.

They're pushing that perfume again.

There were two men hanging around the school gates today, pushing drugs.

(informal) To approach; to come close to.

My old car is pushing 250,000 miles.

He's pushing sixty.'' (= ''he's nearly sixty years old )

To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push .

To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.

To make a higher bid at an auction.

(poker) To make an all-in bet.

(chess) To move (a pawn) directly forward.

(computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.

* 1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications (page 47)

When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

(obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

* Bible, Exodus xxi. 32

If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, the ox shall be stoned.

To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.

Synonyms

* to press, to shove, to thrutch * (continue to attempt to persuade) to press, to urge * (continue to promote) to press, to advertise, to promote * (come close to) to approach, to near * to press, to shove, to thring * (tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents) to bear down

Antonyms

* (apply a force to something so it moves away) to draw, to pull, to tug * (put onto a stack) to pop

Derived terms

* pedal pushers * push around * push-bike * pushful * push in * push off * push one's luck * pushover * push someone's buttons * push it * push-up * pushy

Noun

(es)

A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

Give the door a hard push if it sticks.

An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

One more push and the baby will be out.

A great effort (to do something).

Some details got lost in the push to get the project done.

Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.

(military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.

A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score

(computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.

(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request, as in server push'', ''push technology .

(dated) A crowd or throng or people

* 1891 , Banjo Paterson,

Till some wild, excited person

Galloped down the township cursing,

"Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,

Roll up, Dandaloo!"

Derived terms

* give someone the push

Etymology 2

Probably (etyl) poche. See pouch.

Noun

(es)

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

(Francis Bacon)

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