Procession vs Team - What's the difference?
procession | team |
The act of progressing or proceeding.
* Trench
A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
* Shakespeare
A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
(ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
To take part in a procession
(dated) To honour with a procession.
(transitive, legal, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
* Burrill
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
* Macaulay
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 111:
Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
(obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
* Holland
* Dryden
(UK, legal, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
* ALEXANDER M. BURRILL, LAW DICTIONARY & GLOSSARY, vol II, 1871 URL: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022836450
To form a group, as for sports or work.
To convey or haul with a team.
As nouns the difference between procession and team
is that procession is the act of progressing or proceeding while team is team.As a verb procession
is to take part in a procession.procession
English
(wikipedia procession)Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Pearson)
- That the procession of their life might be / More equable, majestic, pure, and free.
- a procession''' of mourners; the Lord Mayor's '''procession
- the townsmen on procession
- (Shipley)
Derived terms
* proceed * process * processionalSee also
* march-past * fly-past * cavalcade * motorcade * -cade * cortege * paradeVerb
(en verb)- To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.
Synonyms
* processExternal links
* *team
English
(wikipedia team)Etymology 1
From (etyl) teme, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.
- The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
- We need more volunteers for the netball team .
- The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
- a team of ducklings about her
- a long team of snowy swans on high
- TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.
Usage notes
* When referring to the actions of a sports team, British English typically uses the third-person plural form rather than the third-person singular. However, this is not done in other contexts such as in business or politics. ** **: Manchester were unable to bring the strong team they originally intended, ** **: Leeds were champions again.Descendants
* German: (l)Verb
(en verb)- They teamed to complete the project.
- to team lumber
- (Thoreau)
