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群众,一伙拥挤,挤满,挤进

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crowd \Crowd\, n. [AS. croda. See {Crowd}, v. t. ]
   1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together;
      also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

            A crowd of islands.                   --Pope.

   2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close
      body without order; a throng.

            The crowd of Vanity Fair.             --Macaulay.

            Crowds that stream from yawning doors. --Tennyson.

   3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the
      rabble; the mob.

            To fool the crowd with glorious lies. --Tennyson.

            He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
                                                  --Dryden.

   Syn: Throng; multitude. See {Throng}.

Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr?dan; cf. D.
   kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
   1. To push, to press, to shove. --Chaucer.

   2. To press or drive together; to mass together. ``Crowd us
      and crush us.'' --Shak.

   3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to
      encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

            The balconies and verandas were crowded with
            spectators, anxious to behold their future
            sovereign.                            --Prescott.

   4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat
      discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]

   {To crowd out}, to press out; specifically, to prevent the
      publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out
      the article.

   {To crowd sail} (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of
      sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to
      carry a press of sail.

Crowd \Crowd\, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named
   from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve.
   Cf. {Rote}.]
   An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of
   violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played
   with a bow. [Written also {croud}, {crowth}, {cruth}, and
   {crwth}.]

         A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
                                                  --B. Jonson.

Crowd \Crowd\, v. t.
   To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] ``Fiddlers, crowd on.''
   --Massinger.

Crowd \Crowd\, v. i.
   1. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to
      throng.

            The whole company crowded about the fire. --Addison.

            Images came crowding on his mind faster than he
            could put them into words.            --Macaulay.

   2. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man
      crowds into a room.

资料来源 : WordNet®

crowd
     n 1: a large number of things or people considered together; "a
          crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
     2: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the
        same crowd" [syn: {crew}, {gang}, {bunch}]

crowd
     v 1: cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the
          children into a spare classroom" [syn: {herd}]
     2: fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students
        crowded the auditorium"
     3: to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters
        and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" [syn: {crowd
        together}]
     4: approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"
        [syn: {push}]
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