different between converge vs crowd

English

Etymology

From convergere, from con- (“together”) + vergere (“to bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n.?v??d?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?

Verb

converge (third-person singular simple present converges, present participle converging, simple past and past participle converged)

1. (intransitive) Of two or more entities, to approach each other; to get closer and closer.
   • 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

     The mountains converge into a single ridge.

2. (intransitive, mathematics) Of a sequence, to have a limit.
3. (intransitive, computing) Of an iterative process, to reach a stable end point.

Antonyms

• diverge

Derived terms

• convergence
• convergent

Related terms

• divergence

Translations

Anagrams

• Congreve

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.v???/

Verb

converge

1. first-person singular present indicative of converger
2. third-person singular present indicative of converger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of converger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of converger
5. second-person singular imperative of converger

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rd?e

Verb

converge

1. third-person singular present indicative of convergere

Latin

Verb

converge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of converg?

Romanian

Etymology

From French converger, from Latin convergere.

Verb

a converge (third-person singular present converge, past participle [please provide]) 3rd conj.

1. to converge

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

converge

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of convergir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of convergir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of convergir.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English crouden, from Old English cr?dan, from Proto-Germanic *kr?dan?, *kreudan?. Cognate with Dutch kruien.

Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)

1. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.

2. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers

   Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in

   • Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.

3. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
4. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
   • 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain

     The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.

5. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
6. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
7. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
8. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

Synonyms

• becrowd (dated)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

crowd (plural crowds)

1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
2. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

3. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
4. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

Synonyms

• (group of things): aggregation, cluster, group, mass
• (group of people): audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng
• (the "lower orders" of people): everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashed

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.

Noun

crowd (plural crowds)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
   • 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

     A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.

2. (now dialectal) A fiddle.

Derived terms

• crowder

Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
   • 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law

     Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.

References

crowd in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• c-word