The difference between Gather and Group

When used as nouns, gather means a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it, whereas group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Gather and Group

  1. Gather as a verb (intransitive):

    To collect; normally separate things. Especially, to harvest food. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. To congregate, or assemble. To grow gradually larger by accretion.

    Examples:

    "I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with."

    "She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair."

    "We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane."

    "Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs."

    "People gathered round as he began to tell his story."

  2. Gather as a verb (sewing):

    To bring parts of a whole closer. To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width. To bring stitches closer together. To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue. To haul in; to take up.

    Examples:

    "She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold."

    "A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped."

    "Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting."

    "If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline."

    "to gather the slack of a rope"

  3. Gather as a verb:

    To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

    Examples:

    "From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well."

    "I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match."

  4. Gather as a verb (intransitive, medicine, of a [[boil]] or [[sore]]):

    To be filled with pus

    Examples:

    "Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst."

  5. Gather as a verb (glassblowing):

    To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

  6. Gather as a verb:

    To gain; to win.

  1. Gather as a noun:

    A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

  2. Gather as a noun:

    The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

  3. Gather as a noun:

    The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).

  4. Gather as a noun (glassblowing):

    A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.

  5. Gather as a noun:

    A gathering.

  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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