The difference between Amass and Group
When used as nouns, amass means a mass, whereas group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
When used as verbs, amass means to collect into a mass or heap, whereas group means to put together to form a group.
check bellow for the other definitions of Amass and Group
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Amass as a verb (transitive):
To collect into a mass or heap
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Amass as a verb (transitive):
to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
Examples:
"to amass a treasure or a fortune"
"to amass words or phrases"
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Amass as a noun (obsolete):
A mass; a heap.
Examples:
"rfquotek Sir H. Wotton"
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Group as a noun:
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
Examples:
"there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group'"
"A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals."
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Group as a noun (group theory):
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
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Group as a noun (geometry, archaic):
An effective divisor on a curve.
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Group as a noun:
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Examples:
"Did you see the new jazz group?"
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Group as a noun (astronomy):
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
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Group as a noun (chemistry):
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
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Group as a noun (chemistry):
A functional group.
Examples:
"Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group."
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Group as a noun (sociology):
A subset of a culture or of a society.
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Group as a noun (military):
An air force formation.
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Group as a noun (geology):
A collection of formations or rock strata.
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Group as a noun (computing):
A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
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Group as a noun:
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
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Group as a noun (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.
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Group as a noun (sports):
A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
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Group as a noun (business):
A commercial organization.
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Group as a verb (transitive):
To put together to form a group.
Examples:
"group the dogs by hair colour"
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Group as a verb (intransitive):
To come together to form a group.
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