The difference between Crew and Group

When used as nouns, crew means any company of people, whereas group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

When used as verbs, crew means to be a member of a vessel's crew, whereas group means to put together to form a group.

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Crew as a noun (obsolete):

A group of people together Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft. A group of people working together on a task. The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast. A close group of friends. A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker. A group of Rovers. A hip-hop group A rowing team manning a single shell.

Examples:

"If you need help, please contact a member of the crew."

"The crews of the two ships got into a fight."

"The crews competed to cut the most timber."

"There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!"

"The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night."

"I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's."
Crew as a noun (plural: crew):

A person in a crew A member of the crew of a vessel or plant. A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast. A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

Examples:

"One crew died in the accident."

"There were three actors and six crew on the set."

"The officers and crew assembled on the deck."

"There are quarters for three officers and five crew."
Crew as a noun (sports, rowing, US, uncountable):

The sport of competitive rowing.

Crew as a verb (transitive, _, and, _, intransitive):

To be a member of a vessel's crew

Examples:

"We crewed together on a fishing boat last year."

"The ship was crewed by fifty sailors."
Crew as a verb:

To be a member of a work or production crew

Examples:

"The film was crewed and directed by students."
Crew as a verb:

To supply workers or sailors for a crew
Crew as a verb (nautical):

To do the proper work of a sailor

Examples:

"The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient."
Crew as a verb (nautical):

To take on, recruit (new) crew

Crew as a verb (British, archaic):

To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.

Examples:

"It was still dark when the cock crew."

Crew as a noun (British, dialectal):

A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

Crew as a noun:

The Manx shearwater.

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

An effective divisor on a curve.
Group as a noun:

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

Examples:

"Did you see the new jazz group?"
Group as a noun (astronomy):

A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
Group as a noun (chemistry):

A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
Group as a noun (chemistry):

A functional group.

Examples:

"Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group."
Group as a noun (sociology):

A subset of a culture or of a society.
Group as a noun (military):

An air force formation.
Group as a noun (geology):

A collection of formations or rock strata.
Group as a noun (computing):

A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
Group as a noun:

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
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.
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.
Group as a noun (business):

A commercial organization.

Group as a verb (transitive):

To put together to form a group.

Examples:

"group the dogs by hair colour"
Group as a verb (intransitive):

To come together to form a group.

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