grouping vs scheme

scheme vs grouping

grouping and scheme both are nouns.

grouping is not a verb while scheme is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grouping	Yes	No	No	No
scheme	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

grouping: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
scheme: a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

Other hyponyms of grouping 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, collection, 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, system, series, actinide, actinoid, actinon, lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth, halogen, stellar association, mineral association.

grouping (noun)	scheme (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	an elaborate and systematic plan of action
the activity of putting things together in groups	an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
a system for classifying things into groups	a schematic or preliminary plan
	a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
	a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

grouping (verb)	scheme (verb)
	form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
	devise a system or form a scheme for

Difference between grouping and scheme

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