Rush vs. Crowd — What's the Difference?

Move with urgent haste

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.

Dash towards (someone or something) in an attempt to attack or capture

A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.

Entertain (a new student) in order to assess suitability for membership of a college fraternity or sorority.

The common people; the populace.

Make (a customer) pay a particular amount, especially an excessive one

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

A sudden quick movement towards something, typically by a number of people

A group of people attending a public function; an audience

An act of advancing forward, especially towards the quarterback.

A large number of things positioned or considered together.

The first prints made of a film after a period of shooting

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

An erect, tufted marsh or waterside plant resembling a sedge or grass, with inconspicuous greenish or brownish flowers. Widely distributed in temperate areas, some kinds are used for matting, chair seats, and baskets.

Chiefly British A fiddle.

A thing of no value (used for emphasis)

To gather together in a limited space

To move swiftly; hurry

To move forward by pressing or shoving

To act with great haste

To force by pressing or shoving

To make a sudden or swift attack or charge

To force away by taking up space; displace

To flow or surge rapidly, often with noise

To draw or stand very near or too near to

(Football) To advance the ball or attempt to advance the ball from scrimmage by carrying it rather than passing.

To press, cram, or force tightly together

To cause to move rapidly

To fill or occupy to overflowing

To cause to act with haste

(Informal) To put pressure on; assail

To perform with great haste

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

To attack swiftly and suddenly

(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers

To transport or carry hastily

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

To entertain or pay great attention to

(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together

(Football) To run toward (a passer or kicker) in order to block or disrupt a play.

To push, to press, to shove.

A sudden movement toward something

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

An anxious and eager movement to get to or from a place

To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

A sudden widespread demand

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

General haste or busyness

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

A sudden attack; an onslaught.

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

A rapid, often noisy flow or passage

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

A large or overwhelming number or amount

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

An attempt to advance the ball from scrimmage by carrying it.

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

An act of running at a passer or kicker in order to block or prevent a play.

(obsolete) crwth

(Sports) A rapid advance of the puck toward the opponent's goal in ice hockey.

A fiddle.

Rushes The first, unedited print of a movie scene.

To push, to press, to shove.

A drive by a Greek society on a college campus to recruit new members

To press or drive together; to mass together.

A surge or release of emotion

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

A sudden, brief exhilaration

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

The intensely pleasurable sensation experienced immediately after use of a stimulant or a mind-altering drug.

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

Any of various grasslike wetland plants of the genus Juncus, having stiff hollow or pithy stems and small usually clustered brownish flowers.

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

Any of various similar plants, such as a bulrush.

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

The stem of one of these plants, used in making baskets, mats, and chair seats.

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

Performed with or requiring great haste or urgency

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

Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.

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

The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.

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

The merest trifle; a straw.

A large number of things or people considered together;

A wick.

An informal body of friends;

A sudden forward motion.

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;

A surge.

Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing;

General haste.

To gather together in large numbers;

A rapid, noisy flow.

Approach a certain age or speed;

(military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.

(video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.

(contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.

A rusher; a lineman.

A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.

(college slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

(college slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.

A perfect recitation.

(croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.

To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.

(intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.

To dribble rapidly.

To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.

(transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

To make a swift or sudden attack.

(military) To swiftly attack without warning.

To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.

(transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.

To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.

Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

The merest trifle; a straw.

A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.

Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.

A perfect recitation.

A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.

To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.

To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;

A sudden forceful flow

Grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems

Physician and Revolutionary American leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)

The swift release of a store of affective force;

A sudden burst of activity;

(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line;

Step on it;

Attack suddenly

Urge to an unnatural speed;

Act or move at high speed;

Run with the ball, in football

Cause to move fast or to rush or race;

Cause to occur rapidly;

Not accepting reservations

Done under pressure;