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crowd
1. n. Foule.
There was a huge crowd of people gathered around the accident.
2. n. Assistance.
The crowd booed the first boxer at the boxing match.
3. v. Se rassembler en foule.
The tourists began to crowd round the dying man.
Les touristes se mettaient en foule au tour de l'homme mourant.
4. v. Encombrer.
anglais > anglais
crowd
1. v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
The man crowded into the packed room.
2. v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
They crowded through the archway and into the park.
3. v. To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
4. v. To fill by pressing or thronging together
5. v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
6. v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
7. v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
8. v. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
9. n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
10. n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
11. n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
12. n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
13. n. (obsolete) alternative form of crwth
14. n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
15. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
français > anglais
foule
1. n-f. crowd
Les psychologues sociaux ont développé plusieurs théories afin d'expliquer la façon dont la psychologie d'une foule diffère et interagit avec celle des individus en son sein. - Social Psycholog
2. n-f. the thronging of a crowd
3. n-f. a great number, multitude, mass; host
4. n-f. the act or process of treading or milling
5. n-f. oppression, vexation

Exemples de phrases

I met him in the crowd.      Je l'ai rencontré dans la foule. He made his way through the crowd.      Il s'est frayé un passage au milieu de la foule. A big crowd gathered at the scene of the fire.      Une foule importante s'est rassemblée sur le lieu de l'incendie. Never have I seen such a crowd of people.      Jamais je n'ai vu une telle foule. She lost herself in the crowd.      Elle s'est perdue dans la foule.

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