(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.
Flockly
Definition:
(adv.) In flocks; in crowds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(2) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
(3) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(4) Our folks died to get us the right to vote, so go out and use it," he told his flock.
(5) Circumstantial evidence indicated that in the field; the incubation period of P multocida in a turkey flock may be between 2 to 7 weeks.
(6) Twenty-two parent (multiplier) breeder flocks became infected.
(7) Data were collected from flocks located in Kumagaya city (36 degrees N, Japan), where they were subjected to periodic seasonal changes in photoperiod and ambient temperature specific to that area.
(8) Haemagglutinating viruses have been isolated from these flocks and evidence from experimental and field investigations suggest these are the aetiological agents of EDS 76.
(9) The presence of toxoplasmosis was ruled out via investigations of blood sera taken from weaned lambs and from ewes that had miscarried in the same flock, employing the microprecipitation test in agar gel after Hubner and Uhliková.
(10) The program is based on accreditation of flocks that have passed two successive serological tests with an interval of six months between and post-accreditation tests every 12 months.
(11) Also studied was the serum resistance of seven serotype 3, 4 isolates obtained from the lungs of M9-vaccinated turkeys from seven flocks experiencing increased mortality due to fowl cholera.
(12) Many sera that were negative in the AGP test were found to have VN antibodies, and virtually all sera in a commercial flock were free of precipitin but had VN titers.
(13) He added that London remained the "libel capital of the world – the place where the rich and dodgy flock to keep their reputations intact".
(14) Still the audiences flocked to me in Stockholm, Rome, Stockholm and Stockholm.
(15) Both breeds were contained in each of two separate flocks housed indoors year-round on expanded metal floors in windowless buildings.
(16) Of these 48 strains, 43 (90%) came from the southern part of France in which B. melitensis infection in sheep and goats is enzootic and where the dissemination of this species by sheep flocks moving to mountain pastures most often accounted for cattle contamination.
(17) Acquired HEV antibody appeared at 8 to 10 weeks, and 100% of the meat and breeder turkey flocks were positive after 11 weeks of age.
(18) Individual test day yields for 1548 lactations of 600 ewes from 32 flocks (1975 to 1985) were used to define the shape of the lactation curve.
(19) The changes in nematode cholinesterase (ChE) activities were examined in relation to the development of resistance in (1) a flock of young grazing sheep, (2) grazing and penned sheep treated with dexamethasone and (3) penned sheep receiving a single mixed infection.
(20) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.