What's the difference between cortege and group?

Cortege


Definition:

  • (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was five when taken on a dark winter morning to see George VI’s funeral cortege pass by.
  • (2) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
  • (3) Belaïd's death was described in his cortege as a new type of political murder.
  • (4) It was the day of the funeral of Jimmy Reid – the firebrand union leader who had kept the docks open by occupying them in the 1970s – and Ed joined the dockworkers who lined the streets as the cortege passed.
  • (5) I have few recollections of Thatcher after the slowly chauffeured, weepy Downing Street cortege.
  • (6) At noon, the cortege is due to leave the University of Leicester, where the archaeologists and academics have studied and guarded the monarch’s mortal remains since they were excavated from a council car park in August 2012.
  • (7) A factory was turned into a chapel today for the funeral of the Segway scooter owner Jimi Heselden, whose hundreds of workers lined the goods delivery bay and staff car park as his cortege arrived draped in flowers.
  • (8) The protest was led by a group dressed in black suits and masks and carrying umbrellas and briefcases to represent financial speculators, acting as the head of a funeral cortege mourning the death of Europe.
  • (9) This past Thursday, when Senator Kennedy's funeral cortege wound the 90 miles from the family compound on Cape Cod up to Boston, it made its way through a landscape littered with memorials to his siblings, his parents and his grandparents: Lt Joseph P Kennedy Jr Memorial School; the Kennedy Federal Building; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway (which is built over the old John F Fitzgerald expressway); the Robert Kennedy School; the JFK Presidential Library.
  • (10) As the funeral cortege made its way up Seville Place, flanked by five garda motorbike outriders, a train on the railway bridge over the street suddenly halted while thousands all around clapped and cheered.
  • (11) When recently his remains were brought home from New York for reburial, a military honour guard met the cortege and he was given a hero’s funeral.
  • (12) Even as her funeral procession wound through London streets some faced the cortege and bowed their heads in respect; others turned their backs.
  • (13) According to the Times of India newspaper, the funeral cortege took three hours to cover the five miles to the river from their ancestral home because of the crowds.
  • (14) Maclean is to be found in Eastwood cemetery in Glasgow's southern suburbs, where he was taken in 1923 with a crowd of thousands following the cortege.
  • (15) There was gentle clapping as the cortege, with police motorcycle escort, drove slowly through cordoned-off streets.
  • (16) When we reflect on Bieber's Louis Vuitton embossed, Lamborghini cortege it is easy to equate addiction with indulgence and immorality.
  • (17) Recently, I was travelling to visit my sick mother in hospital and they closed the road for an hour because Putin's cortege was taking him somewhere to drink tea with someone.
  • (18) Undeterred by heavy rain, about 100,000 people lined a 15km (nine-mile) route through the city-state to catch a glimpse of the funeral cortege.
  • (19) After he fled the capital, Yanukovych said, "bandits" had opened fire on his cortege, injuring one of his security officers.
  • (20) Three shootings over the weekend included the killing of a mourner at the wake for an earlier gun crime victim, whose cortege had been given a police escort amid fears of trouble.

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.