crowd

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There's strength in numbers and privacy in a crowd.

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Quick take

a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crowd gathered in one view.

noun

a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

noun

an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

verb

cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crowd.

noun

a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

noun

an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

verb

cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

verb

fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium"

verb

to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"

verb

approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"

Example sentences

There's strength in numbers and privacy in a crowd.

Funny to see something even more locked down than Windows being cheered by the Linux crowd.

They often bring a crowd with them, they often have great researched stories, infographics you name it.

So if we talk politics, we could easily fill the front page with it, and crowd out all the unimportant tech stuff.

I'm getting seriously irritated at the "I have nothing to hide" crowd.

He did not get it here, and that is a sad testament to how crowd-inspired frenzies can bend our perceptions in such faulty ways.

You don't feel inclined to save them, but unfortunately, they're hanging over a crowd of innocent bystanders.

"Totally true, and very important to remember, especially for the HN crowd.

The "backwards compatibility" crowd lost out to the "breaking changes" crowd, which hastened the switch to Web-based applications.

The lesson here is how prejudice and crowd-think can dramatically affect and distort perceptions.

In the meantime, let's see if crowd-funding can be used to give us new ways of raising capital and if the IPO market can't be rejuvenated after a long dead spell.

Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have.

I'm the author of this app, and we're building a crowd-sourced network of live-updating Android barometers in hopes that we can improve short-term weather prediction.

It's not just visiting Westerners either - they stare at each other, watch each other honestly, will walk across the street to get a better look, and crowd around something interesting.

Finally, Aubrey De Grey's unapologetically straightforward logic [1] regarding aging has gained traction with the crowd who has the means to tackle this grand challenge.

There is a reason why the word "vulgar" developed negative connotations over the centuries: it originally meant nothing more than "belonging to the crowd.

One of the first things we were taught in EMT training is that if you ever need something from a crowd of bystanders you can't ask the mass, you have to pick a very specific person and address them directly.

Somehow, I feel like those being critical are posting from a SF coffeeshop, sipping a $5 latte, planning the next social-deals-crowd-sourced "startup".The man is more of an entrepreneur than most of the people on this site, myself included.