Group vs Pool - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between group and pool

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 pool is an aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

In transitive terms the difference between group and pool

is that group is to put together to form a group while pool is to put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.

In intransitive terms the difference between group and pool

is that group is to come together to form a group while pool is to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

group

English

Alternative forms

* groupe (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

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(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

pool

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pool, pole, pol, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water.

the pools of Solomon

* (rfdate) :

Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool .

* (rfdate) :

The sleepy pool above the dam.

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

* (rfdate) :

The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.

A swimming pool.

A supply of resources.

Derived terms

* swimming pool * tidepool * whirlpool

Descendants

* Japanese:

Verb

(en verb)

(of a liquid) to form a pool

Etymology 2

(etyl) , which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner)

Noun

(en noun)

(uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.

* (rfdate) (William Makepeace Thackeray):

He plays pool at the billiard houses.

In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.

The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.

The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.

He put $10,000 into the pool .

(rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.

(legal) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

Derived terms

* blind pool * bumper pool * carpool * cesspool * dirty pool * gene pool * kelly pool * motor pool * pool hall * pool table * poolroom * tidal pool * vanpool

Verb

(en verb)

to put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic

* (rfdate) Grant:

Finally, it favors the pooling of all issues.

to combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction

Anagrams

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