The difference between Ensemble and Group

When used as nouns, ensemble means a group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole, whereas group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

When used as verbs, ensemble means to put together in a coordinated whole, whereas group means to put together to form a group.


check bellow for the other definitions of Ensemble and Group

  1. Ensemble as a noun:

    A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole.

  2. Ensemble as a noun (fashion):

    A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit.

  3. Ensemble as a noun (collective):

    A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.

  4. Ensemble as a noun (music):

    A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists.

  5. Ensemble as a noun (mathematics, physics):

    A probability distribution for the state of the system.

  6. Ensemble as a noun (machine learning):

    A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses.

  1. Ensemble as a verb:

    To put together in a coordinated whole.

  2. Ensemble as a verb (music):

    To perform in a musical .

  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.