different between troop vs ensemble

English

Etymology

Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe (back-formation of troupeau, diminutive of Medieval Latin troppus "flock") and Middle French trouppe (from Old French trope (“band, company, troop”)), both of Germanic origin from Frankish *thorp (“assembly, gathering”), from Proto-Germanic *þurp? (“village, land, estate”), from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“dwelling, settlement”). Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?u?p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?up/
• Rhymes: -u?p
• Homophone: troupe

Noun

troop (plural troops)

1. (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
2. (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
3. A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
4. (chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
5. (nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Coxe to this entry?)

6. (Scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
   • Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920) Aids To Scoutmastership?^[1], page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”
7. (collective) A group of baboons.
8. A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
9. (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.

Derived terms

• troop carrier
• trooper
• troop horse
• troopship
• troop train

Translations

Verb

troop (third-person singular simple present troops, present participle trooping, simple past and past participle trooped)

1. To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
2. To march on; to go forward in haste.
3. To move or march as if in a crowd.

Derived terms

• troop the colour (British, military)

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

• “troop” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “troop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Porto, Proto, porto, porto-, proot, proto, proto-, tropo, tropo-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

troop f (plural tropen, diminutive troopje n)

1. (music, literature, linguistics) trope

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???n?s??m.bl?/, /???n?s??m.bl?/
• (UK, Anglicised) IPA^(key): /??n?s?m.b?l/
• (US, Anglicised) IPA^(key): /??n?s?m.b?l/

Noun

ensemble (plural ensembles)

1. A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole.
2. (fashion) A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit.
4. (collective) A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     On paper, Continental Drift boasts a jaw-dropping voice cast, including but not limited to Jennifer Lopez, Patrick Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Alan Tudyk. But in practice, the overstuffed ensemble leaves the cast no room to distinguish themselves, and directors Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier don’t seem interested in coaxing performances that might render their money stars less identifiable.

5. (music) A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists.
7. (mathematics, physics) A probability distribution for the state of the system.
9. (machine learning) A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ensemble (third-person singular simple present ensembles, present participle ensembling, simple past and past participle ensembled)

1. To put together in a coordinated whole.
2. (music) To perform in a musical ensemble.

Further reading

• ensemble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?s?m.bl?/
• Hyphenation: en?sem?ble

Noun

ensemble n (plural ensembles, diminutive ensembletje n)

1. ensemble
2. ensemble (group of musicians)
3. (theater) troupe

Derived terms

• ensemblemuziek
• theaterensemble

French

Etymology

From Latin insimul, a variant of simul. See also Italian insieme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.s??bl/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [??s??m]

Adverb

ensemble

1. together

Noun

ensemble m (plural ensembles)

1. an outfit
2. (mathematics) a set
3. (music) an ensemble

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: ensemble
• ? Dutch: ensemble
• ? English: ensemble
• ? German: Ensemble
• ? Norwegian: ensemble
• ? Portuguese: ensemble
• ? Spanish: ensemble
• ? Swedish: ensemble

References

Further reading

• “ensemble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble, from Late Latin insimul.

Noun

ensemble n (definite singular ensemblet, indefinite plural ensembler, definite plural ensembla or ensemblene)

1. an ensemble

References

• “ensemble” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble, from Late Latin insimul.

Noun

ensemble n (definite singular ensemblet, indefinite plural ensemble, definite plural ensembla)

1. an ensemble

References

• “ensemble” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• ansamble
• ensamble

Etymology

Inherited from Latin in simul

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?n.?s?m.bl?], (later) [ãn.?sãm.bl?]

Adverb

ensemble

1. together

Descendants

• French: ensemble
  • ? Dutch: ensemble
  • ? English: ensemble
  • ? German: Ensemble
  • ? Norwegian: ensemble
  • ? Portuguese: ensemble
  • ? Spanish: ensemble
  • ? Swedish: ensemble
• Norman: ensemblle (Guernsey), ensembl'ye (Jersey)
• ? Galician: ensembra (archaic)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Noun

ensemble m (plural ensembles)

1. ensemble (a coordinated costume or outfit)
2. ensemble (a group of artists who perform together)

   Synonym: conjunto

3. (music) ensemble (a piece for several musicians)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Noun

ensemble m (plural ensembles)

1. ensemble

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Noun

ensemble c

1. ensemble; a coordinated costume or outfit; a suite
2. ensemble; a group of musicians, dancers etc who perform together; the chorus of a ballet company
3. (music) ensemble; a piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists

Declension

References

• ensemble in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)