What's the difference between congregation and crowd?

Congregation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
  • (n.) A collection or mass of separate things.
  • (n.) An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
  • (n.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
  • (n.) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • (n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
  • (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
  • (n.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
  • (2) The particles were congregated in the walls of blood vessels and in perivascular fibrous zones, consistent with a causal role of Thorotrast in the development of lung fibrosis.
  • (3) A typology of the social climates of group residential facilities for older people was developed by a cluster analysis of seven social climate attributes obtained on a national sample of 235 nursing homes, residential care facilities, and congregate apartments.
  • (4) Referring to the 2011 census, he told the congregation that "faith is not about what public opinion decides", and Christians should not lose heart.
  • (5) Teenagers, parents and teachers interrupt their summer holidays and congregate at schools to receive GCSE exam results.
  • (6) Michel claimed that God had deserted Shenouda's congregation and that more than a million Copts had become Muslims or evangelical Christians.
  • (7) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.
  • (8) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.
  • (9) It created a cooperation between state and private initiatives, and between scientific work and management, based on voluntary congregation of all partners.
  • (10) Thousands are expected to join a "feeder march" outside the University of London student union building in Bloomsbury at 10am before making their way to the Embankment, where the main body of the TUC march is congregating.
  • (11) Government-backed demolition crews forced hundreds of churches to remove prominently placed crosses, despite elaborate protests and sit-ins by congregants.
  • (12) Other LH-RH neurons in the medial septal nucleus, nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca and olfactory tubercle are congregated in small clusters around large blood vessels which penetrate into this area, and they do not appear to send axons outside their immediate vicinity.
  • (13) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
  • (14) When we reached Sanjiang, in Zhejiang province, an elderly woman was angrily telling the pastor how at the end of April police dispersed members of her congregation and neighbouring ones who had come to protect their new Protestant church from being bulldozed .
  • (15) It would be convenient to explain his increasingly outspoken attacks in the context of a church whose congregations include many Catholic migrants.
  • (16) He said: "Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants.
  • (17) Minister Stan Smith said members of the Cornerstone Community Church congregation were offering to mourn with people who were heartbroken by the news of Henning's death.
  • (18) Entrepreneural nurses have the opportunity to seek out congregate housing sites with large aging populations to create ways of promoting healthy lifestyles and a higher quality of life for older persons.
  • (19) It is likely that the same males that were territorial would have formed the nucleus of a social hierarchy if space had been limited enough to cause all of the females in the population to congregate in one large group.
  • (20) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.

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.