Group vs. Type — What's the Difference?

An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation

A category of people or things having common characteristics

A set of two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.

A person or thing exemplifying the ideal or defining characteristics of something

A number of individuals or things considered or classed together because of similarities

Characters or letters that are printed or shown on a screen

(Linguistics) A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.

A design on either side of a medal or coin.

A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.

An abstract category or class of linguistic item or unit, as distinct from actual occurrences in speech or writing.

A unit of two or more squadrons in the US Air Force, smaller than a wing.

Write (something) on a typewriter or computer by pressing the keys

Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.

Determine the type to which (a person or their blood or tissue) belongs

A column in the periodic table of the elements.

A number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class:That type of car was popular in the 1970s. See Synonyms at kind.

(Geology) A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.

A person or thing having the features of a group or class:He is the type of person that is bound to get into trouble.

(Mathematics) A set, together with a binary associative operation, such that the set is closed under the operation, the set contains an identity element for the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element with respect to the operation. The integers form a group under the operation of ordinary addition.

An example or a model having the ideal features of a group or class; an embodiment:"He was the perfect type of a military dandy"(Joyce Cary).

Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group

A person regarded as exemplifying a particular profession, rank, or social group:a group of executive types; a restaurant frequented by tourist types.

To place or arrange in a group

A figure, representation, or symbol of something to come, such as an event in the Old Testament that is believed to foreshadow another in the New Testament.

To belong to or form a group

(Biology)The type specimen, type species, or type genus, which serves as the basis for the name of a species, genus, or family.

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

A small block of metal or wood bearing a raised letter or character on the upper end that leaves a printed impression when inked and pressed on paper.

(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Such pieces considered as a group.

An effective divisor on a curve.

Printed or typewritten characters; print:Let's see how your letter looks in type.

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

A size or style of printed or typewritten characters; a typeface:a sans-serif type.

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

A pattern, a design, or an image impressed or stamped onto the face of a coin.

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

To write (something) using a typewriter.

(chemistry) A functional group.

To input (something) manually on an electronic device, especially by using a keyboard.

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

To assign to a category; classify or characterize:a political candidate who was typed as indecisive.

(military) An air force formation.

To determine the antigenic characteristics of (a blood or tissue sample).

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

To typecast:an actor afraid of being typed as a gangster.

(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

To write with a typewriter or computer keyboard.

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

(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.

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

(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.

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

(business) A commercial organization.

A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.

(transitive) To put together to form a group.

(uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.

(intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

(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.

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

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

A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

(medicine) A blood group.

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.

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

To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

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

Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

(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.

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

(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.

A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

(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.

Arrange into a group or groups;

(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.)

Form a group or group together

A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

To put text on paper using a typewriter.

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

To determine the blood type of.

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

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

To categorize into types.

The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

Form or character impressed; style; semblance.

A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; - correlative to antitype.

That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.

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

A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.

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

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

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

A subdivision of a particular kind of thing;

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);

(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon

Printed characters;

A small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper;

All of the tokens of the same symbol;

Write by means of a keyboard with types;

Identify as belonging to a certain type;