What's the difference between crowd and multitude?

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.

Multitude


Definition:

  • (n.) A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
  • (n.) A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares.
  • (n.) The state of being many; numerousness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
  • (3) Isocyanates are highly reactive chemicals capable of causing a multitude of toxicologic effects including respiratory irritation, dermal irritation, contact sensitivity, and pulmonary hypersensitivity.
  • (4) Pulmonary edema probably will always remain difficult to their mechanism of production, in so far as can be estimated from the multitude of substances.
  • (5) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (6) Its assessment is a damning one on a health service that was struggling with a multitude of problems and at a time of great change.
  • (7) The present results show that propentofylline and its hydroxylated metabolite can influence adenosine mechanisms in a multitude of ways.
  • (8) Conformational study on phosphopantetheine shows that this compound has an intrinsic tendency to adopt a multitude of conformations which contain hydrogen bonds involving the sulphydryl, hydroxyl, carbonyl and amide groups.
  • (9) A multitude of topical agents have been tried with variable results.
  • (10) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
  • (11) Furthermore, this patient presents a multitude of complications developing from large angiomas.
  • (12) I wonder: are there any historical precedents for the ageing multitudes who now keep rock'n'roll in business?
  • (13) The multitude of caval filters now available and conflicting experimental and clinical findings indicate that no one model can be considered to be perfect.
  • (14) Chronic renal failure (CRF) is the consequence of a multitude of diseases that cause permanent destruction of the nephron.
  • (15) Despite the multitude of losses we experience in our lifetime, death is likely to be the most paramount.
  • (16) A multitude of variants can be mounted from just four system components.
  • (17) Injections of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the habenula of squirrel monkeys labeled a multitude of neurons in the lateal hypothalamus and a lesser number of neurons in the internal pallidum (GPi).
  • (18) Separation of the symptoms of this syndrome from the symptoms of a multitude of other postgastrectomy syndromes is difficult, being complicated by a high incidence of emotional instability in these patients.
  • (19) Because we have this multitude of games, I hope Remy picks it up,” Hiddink said.
  • (20) The answer lies in the multitude of tiny modifiable connections between neuronal cells, the information-processing units of the brain.