Crowd vs Circuit - What's the difference?
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To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
* Addison:
* Macaulay:
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
* Shakespeare
To fill by pressing or thronging together.
* Prescott
To push, to press, to shove.
* 2006 , Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style (ISBN 0399532463), page 73:
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds , and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
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(lb) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
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*:To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
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(obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
* Ben Jonson
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
* 1819': wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, '''crowds , and rotes. — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
* 1684': That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with ' crowds and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"
The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun.
The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
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That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
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The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
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(electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
(legal) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
(legal)
(Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
By analogy to the proceeding three, a set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
(obsolete) circumlocution
* Huloet
(obsolete) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
(obsolete) To travel around.
Crowd is a related term of circuit.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between crowd and circuit
is that crowd is (obsolete) a crwth, an ancient celtic plucked string instrument while circuit is (obsolete) to travel around.As verbs the difference between crowd and circuit
is that crowd is to press forward; to advance by pushing or crowd can be (obsolete|intransitive) to play on a crowd; to fiddle while circuit is (obsolete) to move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.As nouns the difference between crowd and circuit
is that crowd is a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order or crowd can be (obsolete) a crwth, an ancient celtic plucked string instrument while circuit is the act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth around the sun.crowd
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kruien.Verb
(en verb)- The man crowded into the packed room.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- The whole company crowded about the fire.
- Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- Crowd us and crush us.
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- tried to crowd her off the sidewalk
- Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
Derived terms
* crowd control * crowd manipulation * crowd out * crowd psychology * crowd sailNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (group of things) aggregation, cluster, group, mass * (group of people) audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng * (the "lower orders" of people) everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashedDerived terms
* crowd catch * crowd-pleaser * crowd-puller * work the crowdEtymology 2
Celtic, from Welsh crwth.Noun
(en noun)- A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little.
References
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
*circuit
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thou hast used no circuit of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Having circuited the air.
