crowd
part of speech
noun (a crowd, crowds); verb (crowd, crowds, crowded, crowding)
meaning for a pupil
1) A crowd is a large group of people together in one place. tree →
2) To crowd means to gather closely together, or to fill a place so it is very full. tree →
3) To crowd someone means to stand too close to them. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the mystic school: In note 02 "beware the crowd": frequency in the training data is not truth; in note 07 the crowd of extras is what makes the world worth a holiday. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and safety, crowds gather at matches, concerts, markets and parades; children should agree on a meeting place in case they get lost in a crowd and find a staff member or a police officer if they do. In stories, a crowd cheers or gasps. In maths, crowd sizes are estimated and rounded (about 40,000 fans). Phrases: in the crowd, a crowd of, crowd around, the crowd went wild, crowded.
examples
- A crowded, noisy, ridiculous one is. (note 07) tree →
- The Godmother, if she exists, does not despise the crowd. (note 07) tree →
- The bugs he finds go to the one who made them, not to the crowd. (note 12) tree →
- Hold a position: do not agree automatically and do not disagree automatically; change your mind when the evidence changes, not when the social pressure changes — like a referee who will not change the call because the crowd is booing, but will if the replay shows he was wrong. (lesson 003) tree →
- Beware the mirror: a model tends to soak up the frame of the person it talks to, so style may transfer but judgment stays independent; beware the crowd: frequency is not truth, and the median view is a second opinion, not a hidden religion. (lesson 003) tree →
- A huge crowd watched the parade. tree →
- The crowd cheered when our team scored. tree →
- If you get lost in a crowd, find someone in uniform. tree →
- People crowded around the street magician. tree →
- Don't crowd him; give him some space. tree →
- The train was crowded this morning. tree →
- About 50,000 people were in the crowd. tree →
- Hold my hand so we don't get separated in the crowd. tree →
- The beach is disgracefully crowded this season. tree →
note
Countable: a crowd, crowds. Adjective: crowded (very full of people). A crowd can take a singular or plural verb in British English: «the crowd was/were cheering». Crowd = people; herd/flock = animals.
In the corpora
- Desert locusts are grasshoppers that, when crowded, change colour and behaviour and form swarms of billions that eat crops.
- Ueno Zoo in Tokyo opened in 1882 and is Japan's oldest zoo; giant panda twins born there in 2021 drew huge crowds.
- Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, and birds packed in crowds spread mess and illness more easily.
- That's just like him, says the Rat — he hates crowds and parties.
- More similes do not make a better poem: a few strong ones beat a crowd of weak ones.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «crowd» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.