| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| 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. |
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| folkmängd |
| 1. n-c. population |
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