group vs collection

collection vs group

group and collection both are nouns.

group is a verb but collection is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
group	Yes	No	Yes	No
collection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, collection is a hyponym of group; that is, collection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than group:

group: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
collection: several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Other hyponyms of group include human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world, arrangement, straggle, kingdom, biological group, biotic community, community, people, social group, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, edition, electron shell, ethnic group, ethnos, race, association, cloud, swarm, subgroup, sainthood, citizenry, people, population, hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed, varna, circuit, scheme, system, series, actinide, actinoid, actinon, lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth, halogen, stellar association, mineral association.

group (noun)	collection (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	the act of gathering something together
a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse	a publication containing a variety of works
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule	request for a sum of money
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole

group (verb)	collection (verb)
arrange into a group or groups
form a group or group together

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