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Foursquare vs Swarm - What's the difference?

foursquare | swarm |

As nouns the difference between foursquare and swarm

is that foursquare is alternative form of lang=en while swarm is a large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.

As an adjective foursquare

is having four equal sides; square.

As a verb swarm is

to move as a swarm.

foursquare

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having four equal sides; square.
  • *2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p, 41:
  • *:From the foursquare royal tower on the city's eastern edge to the Dominican monastery of the Blackfriars in the west, its skyline was a forest of spires and belltowers.
  • (by extension) Solid, robust.
  • * 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
    • Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire […].
  • * 1983 , Hugh Johnson, Hugh Johnson's modern encyclopedia of wine
    • It is surprising to find white wine of apparently low acidity keeping well at all. Yet at ten years (a good age for it today) it has a haunting combination of foursquare breadth and depth with some delicate, intriguing, lemony zest.
  • * 1999 , Tom Stevenson, Christie's world encyclopedia of champagne and sparkling wine
    • Another initially foursquare wine that develops lovely fruit in the glass, with a toasty-biscuity finish beginning to build.
  • (cryptography) Pertaining to a (four-square cipher).
  • (architecture, US) A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.
  • Pertaining to the (International Church of the Foursquare Gospel).

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    • swarm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
  • * Milton
    • a deadly swarm of hornets
  • A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
    • a swarm of meteorites
  • * Addison
    • those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]
  • (label) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To move as a swarm .
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
  • (lb) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:Every place swarms with soldiers.
  • (lb) To fill a place as a swarm .
  • (lb) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
  • To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
  • * (1748–1828)
  • *:At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
  • *1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,
  • *:She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
  • To breed multitudes.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Not so thick swarmed once the soil / Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.

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