The difference between Collect and Group

When used as nouns, collect means the prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the book of common prayer, whereas group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

When used as verbs, collect means to gather together, whereas group means to put together to form a group.

Collect is also adverb with the meaning: with payment due from the recipient.

Collect is also adjective with the meaning: to be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

check bellow for the other definitions of Collect and Group

  1. Collect as a verb (transitive):

    To gather together; amass.

    Examples:

    "Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out."

    "The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall. [[File:The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.ogg]]"

  2. Collect as a verb (transitive):

    To get; particularly, get from someone.

    Examples:

    "A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house."

  3. Collect as a verb (transitive):

    To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

    Examples:

    "John Henry collects stamps."

    "I don't think he collects as much as hoards."

  4. Collect as a verb (transitive, now, rare):

    To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare , .)

  5. Collect as a verb (intransitive, often with ''on'' or ''against''):

    To collect payments.

    Examples:

    "He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made."

  6. Collect as a verb (intransitive):

    To come together in a group or mass.

    Examples:

    "The rain collected in puddles."

  7. Collect as a verb (transitive):

    To infer; to conclude.

  8. Collect as a verb (transitive, of a vehicle or driver):

    To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

    Examples:

    "The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction."

  1. Collect as an adjective:

    To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

    Examples:

    "It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay."

  1. Collect as an adverb:

    With payment due from the recipient.

    Examples:

    "I had to call collect."

  1. Collect as a noun (Christianity):

    The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

    Examples:

    "He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon."

  1. 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."

  2. 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.

  3. Group as a noun (geometry, archaic):

    An effective divisor on a curve.

  4. Group as a noun:

    A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

    Examples:

    "Did you see the new jazz group?"

  5. Group as a noun (astronomy):

    A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

  6. Group as a noun (chemistry):

    A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

  7. Group as a noun (chemistry):

    A functional group.

    Examples:

    "Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group."

  8. Group as a noun (sociology):

    A subset of a culture or of a society.

  9. Group as a noun (military):

    An air force formation.

  10. Group as a noun (geology):

    A collection of formations or rock strata.

  11. Group as a noun (computing):

    A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

  12. Group as a noun:

    An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Group as a noun (business):

    A commercial organization.

  1. Group as a verb (transitive):

    To put together to form a group.

    Examples:

    "group the dogs by hair colour"

  2. Group as a verb (intransitive):

    To come together to form a group.

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