Team vs. Cluster — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Team and Cluster
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Team
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, "[a] team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal".A group does not necessarily constitute a team.
Cluster
A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together; a bunch
"She held out her hand, a small tight cluster of fingers" (Anne Tyler).
Team
A group on the same side, as in a game.
Cluster
(Linguistics) Two or more successive consonants in a word, as cl and st in the word cluster.
Team
The members of a team who are actively playing at a given time
After a stellar performance in last week's game, the shooting guard was promoted to the starting team.
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Cluster
A group of academic courses in a related area.
Team
A group organized for work or activity
A team of engineers.
Cluster
To gather or grow into bunches.
Team
Two or more draft animals used to pull a vehicle or farm implement.
Cluster
To cause to grow or form into bunches.
Team
A vehicle along with the animal or animals harnessed to it.
Cluster
A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
A cluster of islands
A cluster of flowers grew in the pot.
A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.
Team
A group of animals exhibited or performing together, as horses at an equestrian show.
Cluster
A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
Team
A brood or flock.
Cluster
(astronomy) A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
The Pleiades cluster contains seven bright stars.
Team
To harness or join together so as to form a team.
Cluster
A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
Examples of clusters would include "in accordance with", "the results of" and "so far"
Team
To transport or haul with a draft team.
Cluster
(music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
Team
To form a team or an association. Often used with up.
Cluster
(phonetics) A group of consonants.
The word "scrub" begins with a cluster of three consonants.
Team
To drive a team or truck.
Cluster
(computing) A group of computers that work together.
Team
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
Cluster
(computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
Team
Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
We need more volunteers for the netball team.
The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
Cluster
A subset of a population whose members are sufficiently similar to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a distinct group; such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
Team
(obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
Cluster
(military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
Team
A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
Cluster
(army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
Team
A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
Cluster
A clusterfuck.
Team
(intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
They teamed to complete the project.
Cluster
(chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
Team
To go together well; to harmonize.
Cluster
(intransitive) To form a cluster or group.
The children clustered around the puppy.
Team
(transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
To team lumber
Cluster
(transitive) To collect into clusters.
Team
(transitive) To form together into a team.
To team oxen
Cluster
(transitive) To cover with clusters.
Team
(transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.
Cluster
A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes,Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
Team
A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.
A team of ducklings about her.
Cluster
A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
Team
Hence, a number of animals moving together.
A long team of snowy swans on high.
Cluster
A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hiveIn clusters.
We loved him; but, like beastsAnd cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,Who did hoot him out o' the city.
Team
Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like.
To take his team and till the earth.
It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough.
Cluster
To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
His sunny hairCluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
The princes of the country clustering together.
Team
A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.
Cluster
To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells.
Or from the forest falls the clustered snow.
Team
A flock of wild ducks.
Cluster
A grouping of a number of similar things;
A bunch of trees
A cluster of admirers
Team
A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
Cluster
Come together as in a cluster or flock;
The poets constellate in this town every summer
Team
To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.
Cluster
Gather or cause to gather into a cluster;
She bunched her fingers into a fist
The students bunched up at the registration desk
Team
To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.
Team
A cooperative unit
Team
Two or more draft animals that work together to pull something
Team
Form a team;
We teamed up for this new project
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