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swarm
English
Etymology
From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian ???????? (svirél?, “a pipe, reed”).
The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swierman (“to swarm”), from Proto-Germanic *swarmijan? (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sw??m/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sw??m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Noun
swarm (plural swarms)
- A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
- A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
- a swarm of meteorites
- those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]
- (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
Derived terms
- aswarm
Translations
Verb
swarm (third-person singular simple present swarms, present participle swarming, simple past and past participle swarmed)
- (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
- (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
- Every place swarming with soldiers.
- (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
- (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
- To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
- 1784, William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark
- At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 55
- She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
- 1784, William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark
- To breed multitudes.
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Anagrams
- warms
Middle English
Alternative forms
- swrame, swarme
Etymology
From Old English swearm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swarm/, /sw?rm/
Noun
swarm (plural swarmes)
- A swarm (large, moving group of bees)
- (rare) A large group of people.
Derived terms
- swarmen
Descendants
- English: swarm
- Scots: swairm
References
- “swarm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-24.
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clutter
English
Etymology
From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot +? -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kl?t?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?kl?t?/, [?kl???]
- Rhymes: -?t?(r)
Noun
clutter (countable and uncountable, plural clutters)
- (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
- (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
- (countable) A group of cats; the collective noun for cats.
- 2008, John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, Introduction
- Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.
- 2008, John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, Introduction
- (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
- October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift
- I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison
- 1835, William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett, Selections from Cobbett's political works (volume 1, page 33)
- It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once […]
- October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift
Derived terms
- surface clutter
- volume clutter
Translations
Verb
clutter (third-person singular simple present clutters, present participle cluttering, simple past and past participle cluttered)
- To fill something with clutter.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- To make a confused noise; to bustle.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Goose
- It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Goose
- To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).
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