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Skipper vs Crew - What's the difference?

skipper | crew |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between skipper and crew

is that skipper is (obsolete) a young, thoughtless person while crew is (obsolete) any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.

As nouns the difference between skipper and crew

is that skipper is (label) the master of a ship (literally, 'shipper') or skipper can be one who skips while 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 or crew can be (british|dialectal) a pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs or crew can be the manx shearwater.

As verbs the difference between skipper and crew

is that skipper is to be the skipper of a ship while crew is to be a member of a vessel's crew or crew can be (british) (crow) to have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.

skipper

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) scipper, from scip. Compare German (m), (m), Old Norse (m); confer (m), (m).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) The master of a ship (literally, 'shipper').
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
  • A coach, director, or other leader.
  • (label) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Sam Sheringham, work=BBC
    • , title= Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton , passage=But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool}}
    Synonyms
    * (nautical) master , captain

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be the skipper of a ship

    • Etymology 2

    See to skip .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who skips.
  • A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
  • Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.
  • Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially .
  • (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • The , which leap to escape predators.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * English terms with multiple etymologies English agent nouns

    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

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