What is the difference between staff and crew?
staff | crew | Synonyms |
(label) A long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
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, chapter=4, title= A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
(label) The employees of a business.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 16, author=Denis Campbell, work=Guardian
, title= (label) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*Sir (c.1564-1627)
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(label) The rung of a ladder.
* Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels)
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(label) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(label) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(label) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane
A member of the crew of a vessel or plant
(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
* Spenser
* Milton
A member of a ship's company who is not an officer
(arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast
A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast
A group of people working together on a task
A close group of friends
A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker
* 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
* {{quote-book, 1950, Bernard Nicholas Schilling, Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire, page=266
, passage=Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers. }}
(slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
* {{quote-book, 2003, Jennifer Guglielmo & Salvatore Salerno, Are Italians White?, page=150
, passage=We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking.}}
(sports, rowing, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
* {{quote-book, 1989, & Mary Morgan, Spock on Spock
, passage=Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.}}
(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
* {{quote-book, 1888, , Boating
, passage=If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.}}
Image:STS-87_crew_1.jpg, Crew of a spaceship
Image:Toronto female rowing team.jpg, Crew of a rowing shell
Image:ScottKalittaDragsterPits.jpg, Crew working on a race car
Image:Daara J.jpg, A hip-hop crew
To be a member of a vessel's crew
To be a member of a work or production crew
To supply workers or sailors for a crew
* {{quote-book, 2003, Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher, isbn=0813122813, page=42
, passage= Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.}}
(nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
* {{quote-news, 1967, January, , Tampa, The Pilot, page=30
, passage=The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.}}
(British) (crow) To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.
(British, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
* {{quote-book, 2004, , On the Edge, page=7
, passage=Between the shippon and the pig-crew , with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.}}
Crew is a synonym of staff.
As nouns the difference between staff and crew
is that staff is a long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking while crew is a group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane.As verbs the difference between staff and crew
is that staff is to supply (a business) with employees while crew is to be a member of a vessel's crew.staff
English
(wikipedia staff)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff .}}
Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients', passage=Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".}}
- Methought this staff , mine office badge in court, / Was broke in twain.
- All his officers brake their staves'; but at their return new ' staves were delivered unto them.
- I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves .
- Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.
Synonyms
* (music) stave * (employees) personnel * See alsoDerived terms
*See also
* truncheon * club * cudgel * stick * baton * bludgeon * rod * canecrew
English
Etymology 1
from (etyl), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- If you need help, please contact a member of the crew .
- The crews of the two ships got into a fight.
- One crew died in the accident.
- There a noble crew / Of lords and ladies stood on every side.
- Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew ?
- The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
- ''There are quarters for three officers and five crew .
- There are a lot of carpenters in the crew !
- The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
- There were three actors and six crew on the set.
- The crews competed to cut the most timber.
- I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.
- He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
- And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
- They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew ,
- But his soul is marching on.
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Synonyms
* (group manning a vessel) ship's company, all hands, complement * (member of a crew) crewer, member; nautical only : sailor, seaman * (non-officer ship worker) seaman * (non-cast dramatic personnel) staff, stagehand * (group engaged in a task) team, gang * (social group) clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse * (group lumped together) crowd, flock, lot, gang * (hip-hop group) posse, band, groupDerived terms
* crew cut * crewless * crewman * crew mate * ground crew/groundcrew * motley crew * skeleton crewVerb
(en verb)- We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
- The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
- The film was crewed and directed by students.
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- The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
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Derived terms
* crewer * uncrewed * crew upEtymology 2
Verb
(head)- It was still dark when the cock crew .
Etymology 3
Probably of (etyl) origin.Noun
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