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Crowd vs. Hive — What's the Difference?

Crowd vs. Hive — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Crowd and Hive

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Crowd

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.

Hive

A structure for housing domesticated honeybees.

Crowd

A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.

Hive

A nest built by wild or feral bees.

Crowd

The common people; the populace.
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Hive

A colony of bees living in such a structure or nest.

Crowd

A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation
The over-30 crowd.

Hive

A place swarming with activity.

Crowd

A group of people attending a public function; an audience
The play drew a small but appreciative crowd.

Hive

To collect into a hive.

Crowd

A large number of things positioned or considered together.

Hive

To store (honey) in a hive.

Crowd

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

Hive

To store up; accumulate.

Crowd

Chiefly British A fiddle.

Hive

To enter and occupy a beehive.

Crowd

To gather together in a limited space
The children crowded around the TV.

Hive

To live with many others in close association.

Crowd

To move forward by pressing or shoving
A bevy of reporters crowded toward the candidate.

Hive

A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.

Crowd

To force by pressing or shoving
Police crowded the spectators back to the viewing stand.

Hive

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

Crowd

To force away by taking up space; displace
Urban sprawl crowded the farmers out of the valley.

Hive

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.

Crowd

To draw or stand very near or too near to
The batter crowded the plate. Please don't crowd me.

Hive

A section of the registry.

Crowd

To press, cram, or force tightly together
Crowded the clothes into the closet.

Hive

(transitive)

Crowd

To fill or occupy to overflowing
Books crowded the shelves.

Hive

To collect (bees) into a hive.
To hive a swarm of bees

Crowd

(Informal) To put pressure on; assail
Dark thoughts were crowding him.

Hive

To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.

Crowd

(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
The man crowded into the packed room.

Hive

(intransitive)

Crowd

(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
They crowded through the archway and into the park.

Hive

To form a hive-like entity.

Crowd

(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.

Hive

To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.

Crowd

(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together

Hive

(entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.

Crowd

To push, to press, to shove.
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.

Hive

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

Crowd

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

Hive

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

Crowd

To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

Hive

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
The hive of Roman liars.

Crowd

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

Hive

To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.

Crowd

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Hive

To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
Hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Crowd

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.

Hive

To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

Crowd

Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.

Hive

A teeming multitude

Crowd

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

Hive

A man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees

Crowd

A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.

Hive

A structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree

Crowd

(obsolete) crwth

Hive

Store, like bees;
Bees hive honey and pollen
He hived lots of information

Crowd

A fiddle.

Hive

Move together in a hive or as if in a hive;
The bee swarms are hiving

Crowd

To push, to press, to shove.

Hive

Gather into a hive;
The beekeeper hived the swarm

Crowd

To press or drive together; to mass together.

Crowd

To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.

Crowd

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

Crowd

To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
The whole company crowded about the fire.
Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.

Crowd

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

Crowd

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Crowd

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

Crowd

A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
The crowd of Vanity Fair.
Crowds that stream from yawning doors.

Crowd

The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.

Crowd

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.

Crowd

A large number of things or people considered together;
A crowd of insects assembled around the flowers

Crowd

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

Crowd

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;
We herded the children into a spare classroom

Crowd

Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing;
The students crowded the auditorium

Crowd

To gather together in large numbers;
Men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah

Crowd

Approach a certain age or speed;
She is pushing fifty

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