Crowd vs Pour - What's the difference?
crowd | pour |
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.
* (1809-1892)
*: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"
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it.
To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
* The Bible, 1 i. 15.
* The Bible, vii. 8
* (William Shakespeare)
* (John Milton)
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, title= To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
* A. Pope
To flow, pass or issue in or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours.
* Gay
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 8, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC
, title= The act of pouring.
Something, or an amount, poured.
* 2003 , John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2
(colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
As nouns the difference between crowd and pour
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 pour is fear.As a verb crowd
is to press forward; to advance by pushing or crowd can be (obsolete|intransitive) to play on a crowd; to fiddle.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
*pour
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pouren, . Displaced native Middle English schenchen, ).Verb
(en verb)- Ihave poured out my soul before the Lord.
- Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.
- London doth pour out her citizens!
- Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
- Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
- In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
Arsenal 1-1 Leeds, passage=In a breathless finish Arsenal poured forward looking for a winner but Leeds held out for a deserved replay after Bendtner wastefully fired wide and Schmeichel acrobatically kept out Denilson's rasping effort}}
Synonyms
* (pour a drink) shink, skinkDerived terms
* pourable * pourer * pouringly * inpour * outpour * pour one's heart outNoun
(en noun)- Over this time period, the first concrete pour has not only lost workability but has started to set so that it is no longer affected by the action of a vibrator.
- A pour of rain. --Miss Ferrier.