Congregate vs Swarm - What's the difference?
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(rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
* 1605 , (Francis Bacon), The Advancement of Learning , Book II, Chapter IX:
(transitive): To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
* Hooker,
* Coleridge,
* Milton,
(intransitive): To come together; to assemble; to meet.
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A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
* Milton
A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
* Addison
(label) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
(lb) To move as a swarm .
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
(lb) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Every place swarms with soldiers.
(lb) To fill a place as a swarm .
(lb) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
* (1748–1828)
*:At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
*1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,
*:She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
To breed multitudes.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Not so thick swarmed once the soil / Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.
Congregate is a related term of swarm.
As verbs the difference between congregate and swarm
is that congregate is (transitive): to collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact while swarm is (lb) to move as a swarm .As an adjective congregate
is (rare) collective; assembled; compact.As a noun swarm is
a large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.congregate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.
Verb
(congregat)- Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
- Cold congregates all bodies.
- The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.
- Even there where merchants most do congregate .
Synonyms
*swarm
English
Noun
(en noun)- a deadly swarm of hornets
- a swarm of meteorites
- those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]