Scurry vs Swarm - What's the difference?
scurry | swarm | Related terms |
To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
* 1964 ,
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
* Milton
A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
* Addison
(label) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
(lb) To move as a swarm .
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*: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.
Scurry is a related term of swarm.
As verbs the difference between scurry and swarm
is that scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper while swarm is (lb) to move as a swarm .As a noun swarm is
a large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.scurry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
Derived terms
* scurry away * scurry offAnagrams
*swarm
English
Noun
(en noun)- a deadly swarm of hornets
- a swarm of meteorites
- those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]