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teem
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Old English t?man (“to give birth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
- Homophone: team
Verb
teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *t?mijan? (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom.
Verb
teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)
- (archaic) To empty.
- 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham
- [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
- 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham
- To pour (especially with rain)
- To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from Old English *teman, from Proto-Germanic *teman? (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem.
Verb
teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)
- (obsolete, rare) To think fit.
- 1603, George Gifford, Dialogue of Witches
- Ah, said he, thou hast confessed and bewrayed all, I could teem it to rend thee in pieces
- 1603, George Gifford, Dialogue of Witches
Anagrams
- Teme, etem, meet, mete, teme
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
teem
- first-person singular present indicative of temen
- imperative of temen
Farefare
Etymology
Cognate with Moore toeeme (“to change”)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /té?m/
Verb
teem
- to move something
- S??? ka teem b??s? la
- Go move the goats
- S??? ka teem b??s? la
Middle English
Noun
teem
- Alternative form of teme (“folk”)
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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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