What's the difference between consort and group?

Consort


Definition:

  • (n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
  • (n.) A ship keeping company with another.
  • (n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
  • (n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
  • (n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
  • (v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.
  • (v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
  • (v. t.) To attend; to accompany.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fructosamine concentration also remained high in consort with increased blood glucose concentration in cats with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus over extended periods.
  • (2) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
  • (3) These results suggest that these cytokines may function in consort as regulators of cellular growth and function in normal tissues.
  • (4) The INCA program converts Consort 30-generated fluorescence list mode data collected from Indo-1-stained cells to absolute intracellular calcium concentrations (nM Ca2+i).
  • (5) Unity state’s acting governor, Stephen Taker, and his consorts laughed off questions about whether government and allied forces had abducted women.
  • (6) The three companies work together as Consort Healthcare, with other projects including Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital and Hope Hospital, Salford .
  • (7) When routine patch testing reveals a positive reaction, the dermatologist should consider exposure to the antigen not only in the patient but also through contact with the patient's consort.
  • (8) At the same age as Kaminski was consorting with fascist skinheads, I was a member of the Young Conservatives .
  • (9) Since then, he has been travelling across Russia and the former Soviet republics in what at times appears to be a concerted effort to consort with the region's least savoury politicians.
  • (10) The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was employed to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 and 18 in cytological samples from the uterine cervix and in urine samples from the male consorts.
  • (11) The sexual consorts of confirmed and suspected STD patients must be promptly evaluated and treated of disease spread is to be curtailed.
  • (12) "The emphasis so far in Qatar has been on literacy, and our second challenge is how to move from literacy to literature to create a culture," said Abdel-Rahman Azzam, a spokesman for Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the emir's consort and the chair of the Qatar Foundation.
  • (13) In all but seven instances, the gonococci isolated from different sites of the same patient, or from a consort, had the same nutritional requirements and penicillin MIC.
  • (14) The executive offices overlook a construction site: the trust is part-way through a reconstruction project, funded by a £200m private finance initiative deal with Balfour Beatty and Consort Healthcare.
  • (15) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
  • (16) In 18 male consorts of females with positive cultures, asymptomatic bacteriospermia was found.
  • (17) In mice, only strange male pheromones block pregnancy; pheromones of the familiar male with which the female has mated have the capacity to block pregnancy but are ineffective with the consort female.
  • (18) Of 98 male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) who had regular female consorts who received concurrent epidemiological treatment, NGU recurred in four (16%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia positive and 20 (27%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia negative.
  • (19) He became known as "Wally" after Wallis Simpson, consort of the abdicated Edward VIII and subsequent Duchess of Windsor.
  • (20) In most cases the role of a partner is performed by the consort (26.9%) or by a son or daughter (19.3%).

Group


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
  • (3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (5) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (6) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
  • (7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (8) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (9) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
  • (10) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
  • (12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (13) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
  • (14) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
  • (15) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
  • (16) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
  • (17) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
  • (18) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (19) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (20) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.