Unit vs Crew - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between unit and crew

is that unit is a standard measure of a quantity 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 an adjective unit

is for each unit.

As a verb crew is

to be a member of a vessel's crew.

unit

English

(Unit)

Noun

(en noun)

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

The centimetre is a unit of length.

The number one.

This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.

He was a member of a special police unit .

(military, informal) A member of a military organization.

The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units .'' (''i.e., 20 tanks )

(US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organizationJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006). .

(US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.

(US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.

(US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.

(algebra) An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1_R of a ring.)

(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.

We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.

(UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

(Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.

(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.

(Camden)

Synonyms

* (identity element) identity element, unit element

Adjective

(-)

For each unit.

We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

* 1990 , William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis , ISBN 0201159112, page 9:

Consider the following time sequence

*::

Z_t=A\sin(\omega t+\theta)

where $A$ is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and $\theta$ is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval $[-\pi,\pi]$ independent of $A$ .

Derived terms

* construction unit * tractor unit * unit aircraft * unitality * unit cost * unit combat readiness * unit commitment status * unit designation list

References

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Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words ----

crew

English

Etymology 1

from (etyl), from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane

If you need help, please contact a member of the crew .

The crews of the two ships got into a fight.

A member of the crew of a vessel or plant

One crew died in the accident.

(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.

* Spenser

There a noble crew / Of lords and ladies stood on every side.

* Milton

Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew ?

A member of a ship's company who is not an officer

The officers and crew assembled on the deck.

''There are quarters for three officers and five crew .

(arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast

There are a lot of carpenters in the crew !

The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.

A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast

There were three actors and six crew on the set.

A group of people working together on a task

The crews competed to cut the most timber.

A close group of friends

I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.

A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker

* 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body

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.

* {{quote-book, 1950, Bernard Nicholas Schilling, Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire, page=266 citation

, 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 citation

, 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 citation

, 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 citation

, 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

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, group

Derived terms

* crew cut * crewless * crewman * crew mate * ground crew/groundcrew * motley crew * skeleton crew

Verb

(en verb)

To be a member of a vessel's crew

We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.

The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.

To be a member of a work or production crew

The film was crewed and directed by students.

To supply workers or sailors for a crew

* {{quote-book, 2003, Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher, isbn=0813122813, page=42 citation

, 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

The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.

(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew

* {{quote-news, 1967, January, , Tampa, The Pilot, page=30 citation

, passage=The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.}}

Derived terms

* crewer * uncrewed * crew up

Etymology 2

Verb

(head)

(British) (crow) To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.

It was still dark when the cock crew .

Etymology 3

Probably of (etyl) origin.

Noun

(en noun)

(British, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

* {{quote-book, 2004, , On the Edge, page=7 citation

, passage=Between the shippon and the pig-crew , with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.}}

Etymology 4

Noun

(en noun)

The Manx shearwater.

(Webster 1913)

Unit vs Crew - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between unit and crew

As an adjective unit

As a verb crew is

unit

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Noun

Synonyms

Adjective

Derived terms

References

External links

Anagrams

crew

English

Etymology 1

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

Etymology 3

Noun

Etymology 4

Noun

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