crew
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
rowing
sports
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti
Latin crēscere
Old French creistre
Old French creuebor.
Middle English crue
English crew
From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).
Inflected forms:
form: crews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crewed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: There a noble crew / Of Lordes and Ladies stood on every side.
Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
examples: If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
There's a change of driver halfway at Crianlarich. Glasgow crews bring the 35-year-old Class 156 north, then wait to take over the next train back south. Crews from Mallaig, Oban and Fort William take their trains from the coast to Crianlarich and swap over. There's a tiny rest room on the platform, with a microwave and a sink, while they wait. Some drivers are signed all the way to the city. Most are not.
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
examples: The crews competed to cut the most timber.
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
examples: There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
often
examples: I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s.
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
examples: 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
But his soul is marching on.
Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers.
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are the crew that can never be meek
The most popular and critically acclaimed rap and deejay “crews”—Run-D.M.C., Whodini, L.L. Cool J, the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, Public Enemy, Full Force, Salt & Pepa, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Mantronix, U.T.F.O., et al.—were spawned on that city's streets.
We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking.
In b-boying culture, a group of b-boys or b-girls who dance and battle together are referred to as a crew.
[…] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.
gloss: A group of people together
pos: noun
examples: If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.
gloss: A person in a crew
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: One crew died in the accident.
gloss: A person in a crew
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: There were three actors and six crew on the set.
gloss: A person in a crew
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
There are quarters for three officers and five crew.
gloss: The sport of competitive rowing.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.
gloss: To be a member of a vessel's crew.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
On 3 Feb 1982 at Podmoscovnoe in the USSR, a Mil Mi-26 heavy-lift helicopter (NATO code-name "Halo"), crewed by G.V. Alfeurov and L.A. Indeyev (co-pilot), lifted a total mass of 6,560 ft.
gloss: To be a member of a work or production crew.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The film was crewed and directed by students.
gloss: To supply workers or sailors for a crew.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.
Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.
gloss: To do the proper work of a sailor.
pos: verb
examples: The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
gloss: To take on, recruit (new) crew.
pos: verb
examples: The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.
Synonyms: ship's company
all hands
complement
staff
stagehands
clique
gang
pack
crowd
bunch
lot
posse
member
crewmember
nautical only: sailor
seaman
Derived words: aircrew
air crew
crewable
crew cab
crew chief
crew cut
crewdate
crew date
crewless
crewman
crewmate
crewneck
crew neck
crewperson
crew resource management
crew-served
crew-served weapon
crew sock
crewwoman
cybercrew
groundcrew
handcrew
multicrew
recrew
roadcrew
stage crew
traincrew
youth crew
crewer
uncrewed
crew up
Translations: