The difference between Collect up and Group
When used as verbs, collect up means to find and put together in the same place, whereas group means to put together to form a group.
Group is also noun with the meaning: a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
check bellow for the other definitions of Collect up and Group
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Collect up as a verb (transitive):
To find and put together in the same place.
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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.