different between crowd vs amass
crowd
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)
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (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.
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (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.
- 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (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)
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- 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)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
Derived terms
- crowder
Verb
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
- (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.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
References
crowd in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- c-word
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amass
English
Etymology
From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amass?re, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??mæs/
Verb
amass (third-person singular simple present amasses, present participle amassing, simple past and past participle amassed)
- (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
- (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
- […] he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
Synonyms
- (collect into a mass): heap up, mound, pile, pile up, stack up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- (gather a great quantity of): accumulate, amound, collect, gather, hoard; see also Thesaurus:amass
Derived terms
- amasser
- amassment
Translations
Noun
amass (plural amasses)
- (obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.
- Synonyms: mass, heap, pile
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, London, p. 38,[1]
- […] this Pillar [the Compounded Order] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amasse of all the precedent Ornaments, making a new kinde, by stealth, and though the most richly tricked, yet the poorest in this, that he is a borrower of all his Beautie.
- 1788, Thomas Pownall, Notices and Descriptions of Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul, London: John Nichols, p. 22,[2]
- […] others are drawn, not as portraits, not strict copies of these most essential characteristic parts, but filled up afterwards from memory, and a general idea of an amass of arms, without the specific one of a trophæal amass, which is the fact of these bas-relieves.
- (obsolete) The act of amassing.
- 1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre, London: Roger Warde, Book 6, p. 339,[3]
- He [the general] must neuer permit the Captaines to depart from the place, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order or disseuered, although they should depart to some place neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and importance:
- 1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre, London: Roger Warde, Book 6, p. 339,[3]
Anagrams
- Assam, Massa, Samas, massa, msasa
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