Engels Woord van de dag

crowd

menigte

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

crowd

1. menigte, schare

Engels > Engels

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.

Nederlands > Engels

menigte

1. n-f. crowd

2. n-f. multitude

Voorbeeldzinnen

I caught sight of her in the crowd.
    Ik zag haar te midden van de menigte.
He can get the crowd dancing.
    Hij kan de menigte aan het dansen krijgen.
It doesn't matter if there's a crowd.
    Het maakt niet uit of er een menigte is.
A crowd gathered on this street.
    Een menigte verzamelde zich in deze straat.
A big crowd had soon gathered at the scene of the accident.
    Er verzamelde zich gauw een grote menigte op de plaats van het ongeval.

Vorige woorden herzien

long	mirror	handbag	school desk
eighteen	red	hour	beer
living room	blink	small	pear
syringe	cymbal	underwear	seventy-nine

Willekeurig

snow	grey	breakfast	ear
pilot	seventeen	daughter	desert
balcony	laundry	surgery	alarm clock
woman	sixty-eight	dance	moss

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