The difference between Band and Group
When used as nouns, band means a strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together, whereas group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
When used as verbs, band means to fasten with a band, whereas group means to put together to form a group.
check bellow for the other definitions of Band and Group
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Band as a noun:
A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling. A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it. A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached. A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
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Band as a noun (architecture):
A strip of decoration. A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork. In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
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Band as a noun:
That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
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Band as a noun:
A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Band as a noun (in the plural):
Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
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Band as a noun (physics):
A part of the radio spectrum.
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Band as a noun (physics):
A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
Examples:
"'valence band;  conduction band'"
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Band as a noun (obsolete):
A bond.
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Band as a noun (obsolete):
Pledge; security.
Examples:
"rfquotek Spenser"
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Band as a noun (especially, American English):
A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
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Band as a noun (sciences):
Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
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Band as a noun (medicine):
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Band as a noun (slang, hiphop, often in the plural):
A wad of money totaling $10K, held together by a band; money
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Band as a verb:
To fasten with a band.
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Band as a verb:
To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
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Band as a noun:
A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
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Band as a noun:
A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
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Band as a noun:
A marching band.
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Band as a noun:
A group of people loosely united for a common purpose .
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Band as a noun (anthropology):
A small group of people living in a simple society.
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Band as a noun (Canada):
A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
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Band as a verb (intransitive):
To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
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Band as a verb (obsolete):
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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.