different between crowding vs inrush

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?a?d??/
• Rhymes: -a?d??

Verb

crowding

1. present participle of crowd

Noun

crowding (plural crowdings)

1. The act by which somebody is crowded.
   • 1832, Thomas Carlyle, "Boswell's Life of Johnson", in Fraser's Magazine

     To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel […]

English

Etymology

in- +? rush

Noun

inrush (plural inrushes)

1. A crowding or flooding in.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     As we swung around, the full force of the current caught us and drove the stern against the rocks; there was a thud which sent a tremor through the whole craft, and then a moment of nasty grinding as the steel hull scraped the rock wall. I expected momentarily the inrush of waters that would seal our doom; but presently from below came the welcome word that all was well.
2. The initial flow of electricity into a component when it is switched on.

Synonyms

• surge

Derived terms

• inrushing

Translations

Verb

inrush (third-person singular simple present inrushes, present participle inrushing, simple past and past participle inrushed)

1. (obsolete) To rush in.

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Anagrams

• Rushin, runish, rush in