crew

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noun

a group of persons involved in a particular kind of work or working together: the crew of a train; a wrecking crew.

Nautical.

the people who sail or operate a ship or boat.

the common sailors of a ship's company.

a particular gang of a ship's company.

the people who fly or operate an aircraft or spacecraft.

the team that rows a racing shell: varsity crew.

the sport of racing with racing shells: He went out for crew in his freshman year.

a company; crowd: He and his crew of friends filled the room.

any force or band of armed men.

verb (used with object)

to serve as a member of a crew on (a ship, aircraft, etc.).

to obtain or employ a crew for (a ship, aircraft, etc.).

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verb (used without object)

10.

to serve as a member of a crew.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English crewe augmentation, hence reinforcements, body of soldiers < Middle French creue, literally, increase, noun use of feminine of Old French creu, past participle of creistre to grow < Latin crēscere; see crescent

Related forms

crew·less, adjective

Usage note
See collective noun.

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verb

a simple past tense of crow².

verb (used without object)

to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.

to gloat, boast, or exult (often followed by over ).

to utter an inarticulate cry of pleasure, as an infant does.

noun

the characteristic cry of a rooster.

an inarticulate cry of pleasure.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English crowen, Old English crāwan; cognate with Dutch kraaien, German krähen; see crow¹

Related forms

crow·er, noun

crow·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
2. vaunt, brag.

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crew¹ (kruː)

—n
1.	the men who man a ship, boat, aircraft, etc
2.	nautical a group of people assigned to a particular job or type of work
3.	informal a gang, company, or crowd

—vb
4.	to serve on (a ship) as a member of the crew

[C15 crue (military) reinforcement, from Old French creue augmentation, from Old French creistre to increase, from Latin crescere]

crew² (kruː)

—vb
	a past tense of crow

crow¹ (krəʊ)

—n
1.	See also carrion crow any large gregarious songbird of the genus Corvus, esp C. corone (the carrion crow) of Europe and Asia: family Corvidae. Other species are the raven, rook, and jackdaw and all have a heavy bill, glossy black plumage, and rounded wingsRelated: corvine
2.	any of various other corvine birds, such as the jay, magpie, and nutcracker
3.	any of various similar birds of other families
4.	offensive an old or ugly woman
5.	short for crowbar
6.	as the crow flies as directly as possible
7.	informal (US), (Canadian) eat crow to be forced to do something humiliating
8.	slang (Brit), (Austral) (interjection) stone the crows an expression of surprise, dismay, etc

Related: corvine

[Old English crāwa; related to Old Norse krāka, Old High German krāia, Dutch kraai]

crow² (krəʊ)

—vb
1.	(past tense crowed or crew) to utter a shrill squawking sound, as a cock
2.	(often foll by over) to boast one's superiority
3.	(esp of babies) to utter cries of pleasure

—n
4.	the act or an instance of crowing

[Old English crāwan; related to Old High German krāen, Dutch kraaien]

'crower²

—n

'crowingly²

—*adv*

Crow (krəʊ)

—n , Crows, Crow
1.	a member of a Native American people living in E Montana
2.	the language of this people, belonging to the Siouan family

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Word Origin & History

crew

c.1437, from O.Fr. creue "an increase, recruit, military reinforcement," from fem. pp. of creistre "grow," from L. crescare "arise, grow." Meaning "people acting or working together" is first attested 1570. "Gang of men on a warship" is from 1692. Crew-cut first attested 1938, so called because the style

was originally adopted by boat crews at Harvard and Yale.

crow

O.E. crawe, imitative of bird's cry. Phrase eat crow is probably based on the notion that the bird is edible when boiled but hardly agreeable; first attested 1851, Amer.Eng., but said to date to War of 1812 (Walter Etecroue turns up 1361 in the Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London). Crow's

foot "wrinkle around the corner of the eye" is late 14c. Phrase as the crow flies first recorded 1800.

Crow

Indian tribe of the American Midwest, the name is a rough translation of their own name, Apsaruke.

crow

O.E. crawian "make a loud noise like a crow;" sense of "exult in triumph" is 1522, perhaps in part because the English crow is a carrion-eater.

Example sentences

They have all been shut down for safety reasons but crew are still there

working on insuring no catastrophic melt down occurs.

But it is not a giant leap to move from carrying cargo to carrying crew.

We also ate lunch together with the film crew, where he told us about the

history of the observatory.

It's always night in the world of sea vents-until a film crew summons the power

to illuminate the abyss.

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"crew member [offscreen]: That's an awful big town San Francisco.
Weinberg: Strictly a one-whistle stop. There's only one city in the USA and that's New York.
Chief Sergeant: Oh, you're just another hometown hick, Weinberg. What's wrong with California?
Weinberg: California. The sun shines and nothing happens. Before you know it, you're sixty years old.
Chief Sergeant: It's no different from New York. My sister's been tryin' to get out of Brooklyn for the last forty years.
Weinberg: Brooklyn. That ain't New York, Chief. Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you're out of this world. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. You know when I used to drive a hack, I had a pal who crossed that bridge back in 1929 and ain't never heard from him since."

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