Crowd vs Jam - What's the difference?

In nautical terms the difference between crowd and jam

is that crowd is to approach another ship too closely when it has right of way while jam is to bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

As verbs the difference between crowd and jam

is that crowd is to press forward; to advance by pushing while jam is to get something stuck in a confined space.

As nouns the difference between crowd and jam

is that crowd is a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order while jam is a sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.

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

jam

English

, a type of jam, spread on a piece of bread

Etymology 1

Noun

A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.

(countable) A difficult situation.

I’m in a jam right now. Can you help me out?

* 1975 , (Bob Dylan), (Tangled Up in Blue)

She was married when we first met

Soon to be divorced

I helped her out of a jam , I guess

But I used a little too much force.

(countable) Blockage, congestion.

A traffic jam caused us to miss the game's first period.

a jam of logs in a river

An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.

(countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.

He's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.

(countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.

(countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.

Toughie scored four points in that jam .

(climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.

I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.

(UK) luck.

He's got more jam than Waitrose.

(mining)

Synonyms

* (sweet mixture of fruit) conserve, (US) jelly, preserve * See also

Derived terms

* jamjar * jammy * jam band * jam roly poly * jam sandwich * jam session * jam tart * jam tomorrow * log jam * Murrumbidgee jam * pearl jam * power jam * toe jam * traffic jam * want jam on it * climbing: ** hand jam ** finger jam ** fist jam ** foot jam ** pinkie jam ** ring jam ** thumb-down jam

Verb

(jamm)

To get something stuck in a confined space.

My foot got jammed in a gap between the rocks.

Her poor little baby toe got jammed in the door.

I jammed the top knuckle of my ring finger.

To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.

They temporarily stopped the gas tank leak by jamming a piece of taffy into the hole.

The rush-hour train was jammed with commuters.

To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up"

A single accident can jam the roads for hours.

To block or confuse a broadcast signal.

(baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.

Jones was jammed by the pitch.

(music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).

To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.

When he tripped on the step he jammed his toe.

(roller derby) To attempt to score points.

Toughie jammed four times in the second period.

(nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

Synonyms

* ram

Derived terms

* (to squeeze into a small space) jam-pack * jammer

Etymology 2

(etyl) or (etyl), meaning "garment, robe"; related to pajamas.

Noun

(en noun)

(dated) A kind of frock for children.

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