Muster vs Crowd - What's the difference?
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Gathering.
# An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
#* 1743 , Joseph Steele & Richard Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. :
#* Macaulay
#* 1920 , Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia , Issue 13,
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#* 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1 :
#* 1663 , Samuel Pepys, Diary , 4 Jul 1663:
# The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
#* Wyclif
#* Hooker
# (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
#* 2006 , John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos! , Boolarong Press:
Showing.
# (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
# (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display.
#* 1590 , Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia , Book III:
#* 1647 , Beaumont and Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth , Act 2:
# A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists).
(obsolete) To show, exhibit.
To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
(US) To enroll (into service).
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
* Addison:
* Macaulay:
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
* Shakespeare
To fill by pressing or thronging together.
* Prescott
To push, to press, to shove.
* 2006 , Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style (ISBN 0399532463), page 73:
(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.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
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*: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.
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*: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.
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(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.
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(obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
* Ben Jonson
(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"
Muster is a related term of crowd.
As nouns the difference between muster and crowd
is that muster is example while 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 a verb crowd is
to press forward; to advance by pushing or crowd can be (obsolete|intransitive) to play on a crowd; to fiddle.muster
English
Noun
(en noun)- She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.
- Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.
- The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual.
- Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.
- And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen
- The muster was thirty thousands of men.
- Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.
- McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.
- Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].
- And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.
Derived terms
* pass muster * bangtail musterVerb
(en verb)- With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* muster in * muster out * muster upReferences
* *Anagrams
* ----crowd
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kruien.Verb
(en verb)- The man crowded into the packed room.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- The whole company crowded about the fire.
- Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- Crowd us and crush us.
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- tried to crowd her off the sidewalk
- Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
Derived terms
* crowd control * crowd manipulation * crowd out * crowd psychology * crowd sailNoun
(en noun)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, unwashedDerived terms
* crowd catch * crowd-pleaser * crowd-puller * work the crowdEtymology 2
Celtic, from Welsh crwth.Noun
(en noun)- A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little.