Crowd vs Reach - What's the difference?

Crowd is a related term of reach.

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.

As a noun 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.

As an acronym reach is

crowd

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kruien.

Verb

(en verb)

To press forward; to advance by pushing.

The man crowded into the packed room.

To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

They crowded through the archway and into the park.

* Addison:

The whole company crowded about the fire.

* Macaulay:

Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.

To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.

* Shakespeare

Crowd us and crush us.

To fill by pressing or thronging together.

* Prescott

The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.

To push, to press, to shove.

tried to crowd her off the sidewalk

* 2006 , Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style (ISBN 0399532463), page 73:

Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.

(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.

Derived terms

* crowd control * crowd manipulation * crowd out * crowd psychology * crowd sail

Noun

(en noun)

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

*: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.

*: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.

(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.

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, unwashed

Derived terms

* crowd catch * crowd-pleaser * crowd-puller * work the crowd

Etymology 2

Celtic, from Welsh crwth.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.

* Ben Jonson

A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little.

(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"

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

* Massinger

Fiddlers, crowd on.

References

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

reach

English

Verb

(es)

To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.

Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over.

To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.

To strike or touch with a missile.

Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.

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To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

* Milton

Thy desire leads to no excess / That reaches blame.

To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.

* Cheyne

The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach , comes short of its reality.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,

(obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Do what, sir? I reach you not.

(obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.

(South)

To stretch out the hand.

To strain after something; to make efforts.

To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously ((past), (beyond), (above), (from) etc. something).

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 4:

The Thembu tribe reaches back for twenty generations to King Zwide.

(nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

Usage notes

* In the past, raught'', ''rought'' and ''retcht could be found as past tense forms; these are now obsolete, except perhaps in some dialects.

Derived terms

* far-reaching * forereach * outreach * overreach * reachable * reach an early grave * reach for the stars * rereach *

Noun

(es)

The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown.

The fruit is beyond my reach .

to be within reach of cannon shot

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI

and we have learned not to fire at any of the dinosaurs unless we can keep out of their reach for at least two minutes after hitting them in the brain or spine, or five minutes after puncturing their hearts—it takes them so long to die.

The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.

* Hayward

Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.

* Alexander Pope

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.

Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

* Milton

And on the left hand, hell, / With long reach , interposed.

* Shakespeare

I am to pray you not to strain my speech / To grosser issues, nor to larger reach / Than to suspicion.

(informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.

To call George eloquent is certainly a reach .

(boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.

An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.

* Tennyson

The river's wooded reach .

* Holland

The coast is very full of creeks and reaches .

(nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.

(obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.

* Francis Bacon

The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design.

The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

An effort to vomit; a retching.

Derived terms

* arm's reach * beam reach * boardinghouse reach * broad reach * dry reach * earreach * eyereach * gunreach * reach-around * reachless

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