What's the difference between concourse and crowd?

Concourse


Definition:

  • (n.) A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.
  • (n.) An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.
  • (n.) The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.
  • (n.) An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.
  • (n.) Concurrence; cooperation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers , adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.
  • (2) What he concluded was that the destruction of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx was something endemic to modern life.
  • (3) Trump loyalists stand by their man – but the resistance is taking root Read more The protesters are part of a sudden swell of liberal activism that has drawn millions to city streets and airport concourses across the US, in a startling show of resistance to Trump’s presidency.
  • (4) The colossal tarpaulin roof had actually been opened and closed regularly throughout the day, as if taunting those fans who could not attend the rescheduled game, as the locals sought to dry the surface so there was an irony this game kicked off with autumnal sunshine pouring through the concourse under the canopy.
  • (5) It's not just that Adele is blasting out on the concourse, white towels have replaced the Wimbledon-branded ones, and the posh stewards with purple arm bands have given way to policemen with machine guns.
  • (6) In order to improve prehospital services to the airport and the city, a paramedic has been stationed in the concourse at the airport 16 hours a day since 1982.
  • (7) I just want to see my child in Belgium.” At Keleti, tempers frayed and conditions were rapidly worsening in the station concourse thanks to the late summer heat.
  • (8) Some refugees slept on the station concourse on Saturday night.
  • (9) Francis Whittaker (@frittaker) #britishthreatlevels "A rail replacement bus service can be found outside the station concourse" May 24, 2017 Viktoria Michaelis (@VikiMichaelis) 'Is this seat taken?'
  • (10) My wife just grabbed her and dragged her out of the door and on to the concourse.
  • (11) Probably the happening of most moment during that 1973 midsummer fortnight was the raucous overture of something rare and special when every day some hundred or so shrieking schoolgirls began following around the concourse and demanding autographs from a slim, blond, bemused Swede with a headband and an ice-blue faraway gaze, just 17 but, perforce, seeded No6.
  • (12) On Tuesday afternoon at 10 minutes past two, Miliband and his partner Justine emerged from the Midland Hotel to make the short walk across the concourse to the conference centre.
  • (13) Everyone was in a huge state of panic, calling each other ... it was just extremely disturbing for everyone there.” Elizabeth Welsby, a 50-year-old teacher from Bolton, told BuzzFeed the concourse of the arena was thick with smoke and the smell of explosive.
  • (14) There was a pump providing fresh drinking water and somewhere to wash hands and faces, but it was in a public concourse.
  • (15) It also includes at railway station concourses, ticket halls, footbridges, subways and platforms, including uncovered ones.
  • (16) When train delays are announced, sensitive instruments might read the synchronised rolling of eyes on station concourses in milliblitzes.
  • (17) At the airport, the main concourse was hit by the earthquake with the number of working runways reduced from three to one.
  • (18) On a wall in Doncaster railway station concourse is a plaque commemorating the achievements of Thomas Steels and Jimmy Holmes.
  • (19) However, it is understood the contract does not extend to outlets of WH Smith, which has shops on the concourses of many London mainline stations.
  • (20) Facing the De Young Museum across the park's open-air music concourse, the Academy of Sciences has been an instant crowd-pleaser.

Crowd


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To push, to press, to shove.
  • (v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
  • (v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
  • (v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  • (v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
  • (v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
  • (v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
  • (v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
  • (v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
  • (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
  • (v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (2) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (3) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
  • (4) We know that from the rapid take up of crowd funded renewables investors are actively looking for a more secure option.
  • (5) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (6) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
  • (7) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
  • (8) Current income, highest income, occupation, type of dwelling, years of education, and crowding did not enter the stepwise regression model at alpha = .10.
  • (9) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
  • (10) What are New York values?” he asked the crowd, alluding to Cruz’s vague denigration of those “liberal” values in a January debate.
  • (11) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
  • (12) "This crowd of charlatans ... look for one little thing they can say is wrong, and thus generalise that the science is entirely compromised."
  • (13) Fred had to be substituted to shield him from the crowd’s disdain.
  • (14) There is a picture, drawn by Polish cartoonist Marek Raczkowski: a crowd of people demonstrating in the street, carrying aloft a big banner that simply reads "FUUUCK!''.
  • (15) African children had significantly fewer prevalences of distal bite, lateral crossbite and crowding than Finnish children did.
  • (16) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
  • (17) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
  • (18) Cliff's choice of opening a cappella number for the centre court crowds was inspired: Summer Holiday.
  • (19) "This is a government that has gone out of its way to not only keep crowds away but pass the measures no matter what.
  • (20) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.