The difference between Crowd and Group

When used as nouns, crowd means a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order, whereas group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

When used as verbs, crowd means to press forward, whereas group means to put together to form a group.

check bellow for the other definitions of Crowd and Group

  1. Crowd as a verb (intransitive):

    To press forward; to advance by pushing.

    Examples:

    "The man crowded into the packed room."

  2. Crowd as a verb (intransitive):

    To press together or collect in numbers

    Examples:

    "They crowded through the archway and into the park."

    "synonyms: swarm throng crowd in"

  3. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

    Examples:

    "He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."

  4. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To fill by pressing or thronging together

  5. Crowd as a verb (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off"):

    To push, to press, to shove.

    Examples:

    "They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk."

  6. Crowd as a verb (nautical):

    To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

  7. Crowd as a verb (nautical, of a, square-rigged ship, transitive):

    To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

  8. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

  1. Crowd as a noun:

    A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

    Examples:

    "After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors."

  2. Crowd as a noun:

    Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

    Examples:

    "There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing."

  3. Crowd as a noun (with definite article):

    The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

  4. Crowd as a noun:

    A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

    Examples:

    "That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age."

  1. Crowd as a noun (obsolete):

  2. Crowd as a noun:

    A fiddle.

  1. Crowd as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

  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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