different between crowd vs assemblage

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

English

Etymology

From French assemblage.

Noun

assemblage (countable and uncountable, plural assemblages)

1. The process of assembling or bringing together.

2. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
3. A gathering of people.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

4. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
5. (archaeology) A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• collage

Further reading

• assemblage (art) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From French assemblage.

Noun

assemblage c (singular definite assemblagen, plural indefinite assemblager)

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Declension

Further reading

• “assemblage” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

assembler +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.s??.bla?/

Noun

assemblage m (plural assemblages)

1. assemblage, gathering, assembly (process of assembling; result of this action)
2. (carpentry) jointing (act of making a joint)
3. (carpentry) joint
4. (computing) a phase in compilation where an assembly language is translated into a binary file
5. (viticulture) cuvée (wine produced from a mixture of several grape varieties)
6. (archaeology) assemblage (group of different artifacts found in association with one another)
7. (bioinformatics) sequence assembly (aligning and merging of DNA fragments to reconstruct a sequence)
8. (bioinformatics) genome assembly (process of reassembling DNA sequences)
9. (cartography) juxtaposition of several maps or cuttings to create a larger map

Derived terms

• langage d'assemblage

Further reading

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