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Crew vs Creo - What's the difference?

crew | creo |

In lang=en terms the difference between crew and creo

is that crew is the group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast while creo is a shorter form of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between crew and creo

is that crew is a group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane while creo is a shorter form of lang=en.

As a verb crew

is to be a member of a vessel's crew.

As an adjective creo is

a shorter form of lang=en.

crew

English

Etymology 1

from (etyl), from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane
    • If you need help, please contact a member of the crew .
    The crews of the two ships got into a fight.
  • A member of the crew of a vessel or plant
    • One crew died in the accident.
  • (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
  • * Spenser
    • There a noble crew / Of lords and ladies stood on every side.
  • * Milton
    • Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew ?
  • A member of a ship's company who is not an officer
    • The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
    ''There are quarters for three officers and five crew .
  • (arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast
    • There are a lot of carpenters in the crew !
    The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
  • A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast
    • There were three actors and six crew on the set.
  • A group of people working together on a task
    • The crews competed to cut the most timber.
  • A close group of friends
    • I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.
  • A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker
  • * 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
    • He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
    And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
    They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew ,
    But his soul is marching on.
  • * {{quote-book, 1950, Bernard Nicholas Schilling, Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire, page=266 citation
    • , passage=Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers. }}
  • (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Jennifer Guglielmo & Salvatore Salerno, Are Italians White?, page=150 citation
    • , passage=We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking.}}
  • (sports, rowing, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
  • * {{quote-book, 1989, & Mary Morgan, Spock on Spock citation
    • , passage=Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.}}
  • (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
  • * {{quote-book, 1888, , Boating citation
    • , passage=If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.}} Image:STS-87_crew_1.jpg, Crew of a spaceship Image:Toronto female rowing team.jpg, Crew of a rowing shell Image:ScottKalittaDragsterPits.jpg, Crew working on a race car Image:Daara J.jpg, A hip-hop crew
    Synonyms
    * (group manning a vessel) ship's company, all hands, complement * (member of a crew) crewer, member; nautical only : sailor, seaman * (non-officer ship worker) seaman * (non-cast dramatic personnel) staff, stagehand * (group engaged in a task) team, gang * (social group) clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse * (group lumped together) crowd, flock, lot, gang * (hip-hop group) posse, band, group
    Derived terms
    * crew cut * crewless * crewman * crew mate * ground crew/groundcrew * motley crew * skeleton crew

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be a member of a vessel's crew
    • We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
    The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
  • To be a member of a work or production crew
    • The film was crewed and directed by students.
  • To supply workers or sailors for a crew
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher, isbn=0813122813, page=42 citation
    • , passage= Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.}}
  • (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
    • The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
  • (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
  • * {{quote-news, 1967, January, , Tampa, The Pilot, page=30 citation
    • , passage=The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.}}
    Derived terms
    * crewer * uncrewed * crew up

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (British) (crow) To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.
    • It was still dark when the cock crew .

    Etymology 3

    Probably of (etyl) origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
  • * {{quote-book, 2004, , On the Edge, page=7 citation
    • , passage=Between the shippon and the pig-crew , with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.}}

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The Manx shearwater.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * *

    creo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang)
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2004-08-02 , title = Around the Blogs , site = Evolutionblog , author = Jason , url = http://evolutionblog.blogspot.com/2004/08/around-blogs.html , passage = Nelson is just about the only creationist who makes some effort at presenting his ideas in legitimate scientific venues, but Pharyngula does a good job of showing why creo' s don't do well in such situations. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2005-03-24T18:41:11 , title = Re: Natural Selection , first = Ray , last = Martinez , newsgroup = talk.origins , id = 1111718471.043282.17720@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com , url = http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/3657d8cd1f1da230 , passage = Anytime you want to debate an intelligent creo instead of the AiG YEC morons I will promptly oblige you. }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2007-09-10 , title = Iapetus flyby today! , first = Nick , last = Matzke , site = Panda's Thumb , url = http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/09/iapetus-flyby-t.html , passage = And of course the creos will say that whatever they find is evidence for a young universe. }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2010-12-17 , title = Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2010 , site = National Center for Science Education , url = http://ncse.com/evolution/top-ten-evolution-stories-2010 , passage = In Texas, for example, a creo -dominated board of education in 2009 successfully shoehorned creationist language into the life and earth sciences standards. }}

    Related terms

    * neo-creo

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (slang)
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2007-11-17 , first = PZ , last = Myers , authorlink = PZ Myers , title = The Discovery Institute lies to educators , quotee = raven (username) , site = , url = http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/11/the_discovery_institute_lies_t.php , section = comment
  • 128
    • , passage = [comment
  • 128 by "raven"] In the hotbed of creo nonsense, the USA, acceptance of the fact of evolution runs around 99% among relevant scientists.
    • }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2008-11-26T23:25:05 , newsgroup = talk.origins , first = Mark , last = Gerard , title = Re: Science be damned! , url = http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/af29e7d0d50f0846 , passage = First, I have to agree with you regarding the many creo sites and their unqualified interpretations of fossil evidence }}

    Related terms

    * evo-creo English clippings ----