The difference between Group and Throng
When used as nouns, group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another, whereas throng means a group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
When used as verbs, group means to put together to form a group, whereas throng means to crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
Throng is also adjective with the meaning: filled with persons or objects.
check bellow for the other definitions of Group and Throng
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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."
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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.
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Group as a noun (geometry, archaic):
An effective divisor on a curve.
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Group as a noun:
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Examples:
"Did you see the new jazz group?"
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Group as a noun (astronomy):
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
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Group as a noun (chemistry):
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
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Group as a noun (chemistry):
A functional group.
Examples:
"Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group."
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Group as a noun (sociology):
A subset of a culture or of a society.
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Group as a noun (military):
An air force formation.
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Group as a noun (geology):
A collection of formations or rock strata.
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Group as a noun (computing):
A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
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Group as a noun:
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
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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.
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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.
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Group as a noun (business):
A commercial organization.
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Group as a verb (transitive):
To put together to form a group.
Examples:
"group the dogs by hair colour"
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Group as a verb (intransitive):
To come together to form a group.
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Throng as a noun:
A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
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Throng as a noun:
A group of things; a host or swarm.
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Throng as a verb (transitive):
To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
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Throng as a verb (intransitive):
To congregate.
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Throng as a verb (transitive):
To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
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Throng as an adjective (Scotland, Northern England, dialect):
Filled with persons or objects; crowded.