different between outfit vs crew

English

Etymology

out +? fit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?tf?t/
• Hyphenation: out?fit

Noun

outfit (plural outfits)

1. A set of clothing (with accessories).
   • 2003, Jason Isbell, "Outfit":

     Don't call what you're wearing an outfit.

2. Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
3. Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
4. (informal) A business or firm.

5. (sports) A sports team.
6. (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
7. (Canada, historical) A fiscal year of the Hudson's Bay Company, or the supplies required for such a period.
   • 1949, John McLoughlin, The Financial Papers of Dr. John McLoughlin (page 56)

     […] the outfit of 1821, which outfit suffered a loss. From 1822 there were profits on each outfit as the many subsequent credit entries indicate.

Synonyms

• (set of clothing): getup
• kit
• rig
• turnout

Antonyms

• (statistics): infit

Translations

Verb

outfit (third-person singular simple present outfits, present participle outfitting, simple past and past participle outfitted)

1. (transitive) To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.

Synonyms

• equip
• fit

Derived terms

• outfitter

Translations

Anagrams

• fit out, fit-out, fitout

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• àutf?t

Etymology

From English outfit.

Noun

outfit m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (Croatia, Bosnia) outfit

References

• “outfit” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Noun

outfit m (plural outfits)

1. outfit (clothing)

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