Troop vs Convention - What's the difference?
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A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
* Shakespeare
(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
* Macaulay
(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.
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
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To move or march as if in a crowd.
A meeting or gathering.
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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
The convening of a formal meeting
A formal agreement, contract or pact
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
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Troop is a related term of convention.
As nouns the difference between troop and convention
is that troop is a collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude while convention is a meeting or gathering.As a verb troop
is to move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.troop
English
Noun
(en noun)- That which should accompany old age — / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends — / I must not look to have.
- Farewell the plumed troop , and the big wars.
- His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines.
Derived terms
* trooper * troopship * troop carrierVerb
(en verb)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.}}
Derived terms
* troop the colour (qualifier)References
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* English collective nouns ----convention
English
(wikipedia convention)Noun
(en noun)- The convention was held in Geneva.
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- ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
- ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)
- ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
