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Swarm vs Gaggle - What's the difference?

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Gaggle is a synonym of swarm.



As nouns the difference between swarm and gaggle

is that swarm is a large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony while gaggle is a group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.

As verbs the difference between swarm and gaggle

is that swarm is to move as a swarm while gaggle is to make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

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.

    • See also

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    Anagrams

    * (l) English collective nouns

    gaggle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
  • *
  • Any group or gathering of related things; bunch.
  • * '>citation

    • Verb

    (gaggl)
  • To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • * 1733 , , "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II ):
    • When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?

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    * skein * wedge English collective nouns