Crowd vs Sweep - What's the difference?

Crowd is a related term of sweep.

In lang=en terms the difference between crowd and sweep

is that crowd is to press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably while sweep is to remove something abruptly and thoroughly.

In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between crowd and sweep

is that crowd is (nautical) to approach another ship too closely when it has right of way while sweep is (nautical) to draw or drag something over.

As verbs the difference between crowd and sweep

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 sweep is to clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.

As nouns the difference between crowd and sweep

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 sweep is the person who steers a dragon boat.

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

sweep

English

Verb

To clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.

to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney

* (Bible), (w) xiv. 23

I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.

To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.

* 2005 , (Lesley Brown) (translator), Sophist by (Plato), :

[H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?

To search (a place) methodically.

(figuratively) To travel quickly.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Arsenal 2-1 Everton , passage=Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates. }}

(cricket) To play a sweep shot.

(curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.

(ergative) To move something in a particular motion, as a broom.

(sports) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

(sports) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.

To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.

The wind sweeps the snow from the hills.

The flooded river swept away the wooden dam.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington

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To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Their long descending train, / With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

And like a peacock sweep along his tail.

To strike with a long stroke.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

Wake into voice each silent string, / And sweep the sounding lyre.

(nautical) To draw or drag something over.

to sweep the bottom of a river with a net

To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.

to sweep the heavens with a telescope

Derived terms

* sweeper * sweep across * sweep someone off their feet * sweep something under the rug * sweep up * sweepy

Noun

(en noun)

The person who steers a dragon boat.

A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.

A chimney sweep.

A search (typically for bugs [electronic listening devices]).

(cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.

A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.

Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.

A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.

A single action of sweeping.

Violent and general destruction.

the sweep of an epidemic disease

(metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.

(card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.

The compass of any turning body or of any motion.

the sweep''' of a door; the '''sweep of the eye

Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.

* Sir Walter Scott

the road which makes a small sweep

A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.

(refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.

A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.

(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.