Crew vs. Crowd — What's the Difference?

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.

Generally speaking, a crowd is defined as a group of people that have gathered for a common purpose or intent such as at a demonstration, a sports event, or during looting (this is known as an acting crowd), or may simply be made up of many people going about their business in a busy area. The term "the crowd" may sometimes refer to the lower orders of people in general.

A group of people working together; a gang

A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.

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

The common people; the populace.

All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship.

A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation

All of a ship's personnel except the officers.

A group of people attending a public function; an audience

All personnel operating or serving aboard an aircraft in flight.

A large number of things positioned or considered together.

A team of rowers, as of a racing shell.

An ancient Celtic stringed instrument that was bowed or plucked. Also called crwth.

The sport of rowing.

Chiefly British A fiddle.

To serve as a member of a crew

To gather together in a limited space

To serve as a crew member on

To move forward by pressing or shoving

A past tense of crow2.

To force by pressing or shoving

A group of people together

To force away by taking up space; displace

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

To draw or stand very near or too near to

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.

To press, cram, or force tightly together

A group of people working together on a task.

To fill or occupy to overflowing

(arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.

(Informal) To put pressure on; assail

A close group of friends.

(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.

A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.

(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers

(Scouting) A group of Rovers.

(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

A hip-hop or b-boying group.

(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together

(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.

To push, to press, to shove.

A person in a crew

(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

(plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.

To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.

(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

The sport of competitive rowing.

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

To be a member of a vessel's crew

(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

To be a member of a work or production crew

A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

To supply workers or sailors for a crew

(obsolete) crwth

(nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor

A fiddle.

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

To push, to press, to shove.

The Manx shearwater.

To press or drive together; to mass together.

A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.

To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

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

To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

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.

To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

The men who man a ship or aircraft

To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.

An organized group of workmen

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

An informal body of friends;

A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

The team of men manning a racing shell

A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

Serve as a crew member on

The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

A large number of things or people considered together;

An informal body of friends;

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;

Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing;

To gather together in large numbers;

Approach a certain age or speed;