Crew vs Relay - What's the difference?
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A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane
A member of the crew of a vessel or plant
(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
* Spenser
* Milton
A member of a ship's company who is not an officer
(arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast
A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast
A group of people working together on a task
A close group of friends
A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker
* 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
* {{quote-book, 1950, Bernard Nicholas Schilling, Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire, page=266
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
To be a member of a vessel's crew
To be a member of a work or production crew
To supply workers or sailors for a crew
* {{quote-book, 2003, Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher, isbn=0813122813, page=42
, 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
(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
* {{quote-news, 1967, January, , Tampa, The Pilot, page=30
, passage=The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.}}
(British) (crow) To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.
(British, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
* {{quote-book, 2004, , On the Edge, page=7
, passage=Between the shippon and the pig-crew , with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.}}
(by extension) A new set of anything.
* Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.
(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
(obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.
To pass on or transfer (information).
As nouns the difference between crew and relay
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 relay is a new set of hounds.As verbs the difference between crew and relay
is that crew is to be a member of a vessel's crew while relay is to release a new set of hounds.crew
English
Etymology 1
from (etyl), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- If you need help, please contact a member of the crew .
- The crews of the two ships got into a fight.
- One crew died in the accident.
- There a noble crew / Of lords and ladies stood on every side.
- Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew ?
- The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
- ''There are quarters for three officers and five crew .
- There are a lot of carpenters in the crew !
- The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
- There were three actors and six crew on the set.
- The crews competed to cut the most timber.
- I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.
- 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.
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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, groupDerived terms
* crew cut * crewless * crewman * crew mate * ground crew/groundcrew * motley crew * skeleton crewVerb
(en verb)- We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
- The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
- The film was crewed and directed by students.
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- The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
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Derived terms
* crewer * uncrewed * crew upEtymology 2
Verb
(head)- It was still dark when the cock crew .
Etymology 3
Probably of (etyl) origin.Noun
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See also
* *relay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.