different between camp vs crew

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæmp/
  • (General American, Canada, /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): [k???mp] ~ [k?e?mp]
• Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus.

The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp?n (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

Noun

camp (countable and uncountable, plural camps)

1. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
2. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
3. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
4. A single hut or shelter.

5. The company or body of persons encamped.
6. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
7. (uncommon) Campus
8. (informal) A summer camp.
9. (prison slang) A prison.
   • 2009, Nick Chandler, Jeanette Billings, Determined to Change: The Autobiography of Nick Chandler (page 184)

     Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners.

10. (agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost

    Synonyms: burrow, pie

11. (obsolete) Conflict; battle.
12. (Britain, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Derived terms

Related terms

• campus
• champerty

Descendants

Translations

Verb

camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

1. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.

2. To set up a camp.
3. (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
4. (video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
   • 1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ?

     Aristotle affirmeth that Rauens will gather together on sides, and campe and fight for victorie.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.

Derived terms

• cample

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.

Noun

camp (uncountable)

1. An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)

1. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
2. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
   • 2007, David Rothwell, Dictionary of Homonyms, Wordsworth Editions ?ISBN, page 88

     More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour […]

   • 2014, Sarah Lotz, The Three, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as fuck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest. God.

3. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
   • 2002, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth, McFarland ?ISBN, page 123

     In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”

Translations

Derived terms

• camp it up
• campy

Descendants

• ? Finnish: camp
• ? French: camp
• ? Spanish: camp

References

Anagrams

• CAPM, CPAM

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan camp (compare Occitan camp), from Latin campus (compare French champ, Spanish campo), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?emp- (“to bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kamp/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?kam/

Noun

camp m (plural camps)

1. field (open area of land)
2. camp (temporary outdoor accommodation)
3. field of study, discipline
4. (physics) field

Synonyms

• (open area): terreny
• (camp): campament
• (discipline): disciplina

Derived terms

Related terms

• campanya
• campestre
• campió

French

Etymology 1

Probably from a Norman or Picard word equivalent to French champ (itself inherited from Old French champ and Latin), from Old Northern French camp, from Latin campus, or alternatively from Occitan camp, Old Occitan camp, possibly Italian campo. Doublet of champ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Homophones: Caen, quand, quant

Noun

camp m (plural camps)

1. camp (An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.)

   Il a dressé son camp de l'autre côté de la rivière. ? He has erected his camp on the other side of the river.

2. camp (Semi-temporary accommodation)

   Un camp de concentration. ? A concentration camp.

3. camp (A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary)

   Les camps ennemis. ? The enemy camps.

4. camp (A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.)

   Ce pays est partagé en deux camps. ? This country is divided into two camps.

5. camp, summer camp.

   Un camp de vacances. ? A summer camp. (idiomatic; French usage does not specify a season)

Derived terms

Related terms

• camper
• campement
• camping
• champ

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English camp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??p/, /kamp/

Adjective

camp (invariable)

1. camp (Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying, affected, exaggerated)

   Une folle camp ne peut jamais en faire trop.

Noun

camp m (uncountable)

1. campness; An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

   La tactique des Sœurs dans la lutte contre le sida repose sur une stratégie politique : une utilisation du camp, une réappropriation revendiquée de l’efféminement, de la visibilité homosexuelle et de la follitude qui visent à désarmer les injonctions morales pesant sur la sexualité – sociales, religieuses, liées au sexe, au genre, aux pratiques sexuelles…

Synonyms

• follitude

Further reading

• “camp” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English campian.

Verb

camp

1. Alternative form of campen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse kampr.

Adjective

camp

1. Alternative form of kempe (“shaggy”)

Norman

Alternative forms

• champ

Etymology

From Old Northern French camp (compare Old French champ), from Latin campus, from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”). Compare French champ.

Noun

camp m (plural camps)

1. (Guernsey) field

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kamp, from Latin campus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?mp/

Noun

camp m

1. combat

Declension

Derived terms

• campd?m
• campealdor
• camp?ef?ra
• camph?d
• campl??
• campr?den
• campstede
• campung
• campw?pen
• campwudu
• campwered

Noun

camp n

1. an enclosed piece of land

Descendants

• Middle English: kampe, komp, comp
  • English: camp (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: camp

Old French

Etymology

Found in Old Northern French, Picard and Norman dialects, etc. From Latin campus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kãmp]

Noun

camp m (oblique plural cans, nominative singular cans, nominative plural camp)

1. camp.
2. Alternative form of champ

Descendants

• Norman: camp (Guernsey)
• ? French: camp
• ? Dutch: kamp
  • Afrikaans: kamp
  • ? Indonesian: kamp

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin campus, from the senses of "field of action, scope, opportunity, or produce of a field".

Noun

camp f (plural campau)

1. feat, accomplishment

   Synonym: gorchest

2. sport, contest

Derived terms

• campfa (“gymnasium, stadium”)
• campus (“excellent, splendid”)
• campwaith (“masterpiece”)
• campwr (“champion”)

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kroo?, IPA^(key): /k?u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: crewe, Crewe, cru

Etymology 1

From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. A group of people together
   1. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
   2. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.

   3. A group of people working together on a task.

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

   5. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.

   6. (often derogatory) 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.
   7. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
   8. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
   9. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
2. A person in a crew
   1. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.

   2. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.

   3. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

3. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
   • 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record

     The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.

Synonyms

• (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
• (group engaged in a task): team, gang
• (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
• (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
• (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
• (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
• (member of a crew): crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
• (non-officer ship worker): seaman

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)

1. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew

2. To be a member of a work or production crew

3. To supply workers or sailors for a crew
4. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor

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

Derived terms

• crewer
• uncrewed
• crew up

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

crew

1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).

   It was still dark when the cock crew.

Etymology 3

Probably of Brythonic origin.

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

Derived terms

• crewyard

Etymology 4

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. The Manx shearwater.

Gallery

See also

• Appendix:Dictionary notes/crew
• Crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

crew m (plural crews)

1. crew