(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.
Gregarious
Definition:
(a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
(2) Cytological features are in agreement with the gregarious behaviour of cockroaches.
(3) Path analysis procedures were used to test a causal model that concerns possible antecedent conditions in relation to gregarious drinking patterns.
(4) He inherited his father's calculation and his mother's gregariousness and style.
(5) Backstage, Gabbana – the more gregarious of the two – will talk about fashion as fantasy, last season explaining his vision thus: “I have this life … I want to be happy.
(6) Famously, she lit a lamp in her window, as a welcoming sign to the vast Irish diaspora; deliberately – there was no lack of steel in her campaign, and she quickly showed a willingness to exploit the gaffes of often incompetent rivals – she made herself less private and austere, acquiring suits by Irish designers, trying, above all, to be more open and approachable, more, she told Byrne, like her own warm, gregarious mother.
(7) The imposing and gregarious Midlands-born banker tried and failed to buy Northern Rock before it was nationalised in February 2008 and then missed out on 318 Royal Bank of Scotland branches last year.
(8) Little wonder that tactless buyers at Asda rubber-stamped the rapidly withdrawn "Mental Patient" fancy dress costume when "mental" is routinely worn as a badge of gregarious honour.
(9) These patients also showed significant differences on the MCMI asocial, gregarious, and neurotic depression scales.
(10) Passive avoidance learning occupies a central role in accounts of disinhibited behavior, ranging from psychopaths' persistent criminality (Hare 1970) to extraverts' gregariousness (Gray, 1972).
(11) Bank swallows nest gregariously in colonies usually ranging from 10 to 300 nests.
(12) When we sit down for a more formal interview in his Manhattan hotel room a few hours later, Ross's earlier gregarious anecdotes are replaced by aphorisms that could come straight off one of those inspirational posters you see in recruitment consultant offices.
(13) Light-microscopically, pleomorphic tumor cells clustered gregariously and often formed alveolar structures.
(14) American Indians and Hispanos have a greater tendency to drink gregariously, to drink more, and to have more disruption in social role functioning.
(15) Females of two hamster species with contrasting degrees of gregariousness were tested for social influences on the timing of sexual maturation.
(16) He is a gregarious media grandee, who was born into the royal family of UK showbusiness.
(17) 2) Traditionals, healthy at both ages, were gregarious and nurturant.
(18) "Affectionately known as Corporal Hamer in the office, he was a gregarious figure, a wonderful friend who was hugely popular with his colleagues.
(19) When female dwarf hamsters (Phodopus sungorus campbelli), a gregarious species, were housed with an adult male at weaning, they began estrous cycles significantly earlier than when they were housed alone or with their family.
(20) Experiments were performed to evaluate the status of antibacterial defensive responses in M. sexta larvae parasitized by this gregarious endoparasitoid.