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Brew

Make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and fermentation
Within five years the company will brew as much beer in China as in Australia
The brewing industry
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Crew

A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard.
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Brew

Make (tea or coffee) by mixing it with hot water
I've just brewed some coffee
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Crew

A group of people working together; a gang
A crew of stagehands.
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Brew

(of an unwelcome event or situation) begin to develop
A storm was brewing
There was more trouble brewing as the miners went on strike
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Crew

(Slang) A group of people, especially friends or associates.
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Brew

A kind of beer
Small breweries which are able to offer rare brews
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Crew

All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship.
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Brew

A cup or mug of tea or coffee
She took a sip of the hot reviving brew
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Crew

All of a ship's personnel except the officers.
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Brew

A mixture of events, people, or things which interact to form a more potent whole
A dangerous brew of political turmoil and violent conflict
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Crew

All personnel operating or serving aboard an aircraft in flight.
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Brew

To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation.
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Crew

A team of rowers, as of a racing shell.
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Brew

To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients
Brew tea.
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Crew

The sport of rowing.
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Brew

To concoct; devise
Brew a plot to overthrow the government.
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Crew

To serve as a member of a crew
Crewed on a sloop.
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Brew

To make ale or beer as an occupation.
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Crew

To serve as a crew member on
The space station will be crewed by a team of eight people.
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Brew

To be made by boiling or steeping
As the coffee brewed, I paced in the kitchen.
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Crew

A past tense of crow2.
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Brew

To be imminent; impend
"storms brewing on every frontier" (John Dos Passos).
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Crew

A group of people together
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Brew

A beverage made by brewing.
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Crew

(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
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Brew

A serving of such a beverage.
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Crew

A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
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Brew

Something produced as if by brewing; a mix
Their politics were a strange brew of idealism and self-interest.
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Crew

A group of people working together on a task.
The crews competed to cut the most timber.
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Brew

To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
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Crew

(arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
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Brew

(transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
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Crew

A close group of friends.
I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.
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Brew

To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
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Crew

A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
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Brew

To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
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Crew

(Scouting) A group of Rovers.
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Brew

(transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
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Crew

A hip-hop or b-boying group.
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Brew

(intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
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Crew

(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
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Brew

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
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Crew

A person in a crew
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Brew

To boil or seethe; to cook.
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Crew

(plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
One crew died in the accident.
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Brew

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
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Crew

A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
There were three actors and six crew on the set.
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Brew

(slang) A serving of beer.
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Crew

A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
There are quarters for three officers and five crew.
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Brew

A cup of tea.
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Crew

The sport of competitive rowing.
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Brew

An overhanging hill or cliff.
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Crew

A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
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Brew

To boil or seethe; to cook.
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Crew

To be a member of a vessel's crew
We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
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Brew

To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
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Crew

To be a member of a work or production crew
The film was crewed and directed by students.
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Brew

To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
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Crew

To supply workers or sailors for a crew
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Brew

To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
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Crew

(nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
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Brew

To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour.
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Crew

(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
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Brew

To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.
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Crew

The Manx shearwater.
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Brew

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
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Crew

A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
There a noble crewOf lords and ladies stood on every side.
Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?
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Brew

Drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
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Crew

The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
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Brew

Prepare by brewing;
People have been brewing beer for thousands of years
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Crew

In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
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Brew

Sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor;
The tea is brewing
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Crew

The men who man a ship or aircraft
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Crew

An organized group of workmen
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Crew

An informal body of friends;
He still hangs out with the same crowd
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Crew

The team of men manning a racing shell
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Crew

Serve as a crew member on
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