The difference between Group and Type

When used as nouns, group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another, whereas type means a grouping based on shared characteristics.

When used as verbs, group means to put together to form a group, whereas type means to put text on paper using a typewriter.

check bellow for the other definitions of Group and Type

  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.

  1. Type as a noun:

    A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

    Examples:

    "This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane."

  2. Type as a noun:

    An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

  3. Type as a noun:

    An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

  4. Type as a noun (printing, countable):

    A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block. Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size. Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

    Examples:

    "The headline was set in bold type."

  5. Type as a noun (taxonomy):

    Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.

    Examples:

    "the type of a genus, family, etc."

  6. Type as a noun:

    Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.

    Examples:

    "We can't get along: he's just not my type."

    "He was exactly her type."

  7. Type as a noun (medicine):

    A blood group.

  8. Type as a noun (corpus linguistics):

    A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.

  9. Type as a noun (theology):

    An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.

  10. Type as a noun (computing theory):

    A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

  11. Type as a noun (fine arts):

    The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.

  12. Type as a noun (chemistry):

    A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.

    Examples:

    "The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane."

  13. Type as a noun (mathematics):

    A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)

    Examples:

    "Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types."

  1. Type as a verb:

    To put text on paper using a typewriter.

  2. Type as a verb:

    To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

  3. Type as a verb:

    To determine the blood type of.

    Examples:

    "The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion."

  4. Type as a verb:

    To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek White (Johnson)"

  5. Type as a verb:

    To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

  6. Type as a verb:

    To categorize into types.

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