Swarm vs. Teem — What's the Difference?

A large number of insects or other small organisms, especially when in motion.

Teem is brand of lemon-lime-flavored soft drink produced by The Pepsi-Cola Company. It was introduced in 1960 as Pepsi's answer to 7 Up and Coca-Cola's Sprite.

A group of bees, social wasps, or ants, when migrating with a queen to establish a new colony.

To be full of things; abound or swarm

An aggregation of persons or animals, especially when in turmoil or moving in mass

(Obsolete) To be or become pregnant; bear young.

A number of similar geologic phenomena or features occurring closely within a given period or place

To give birth to.

To move or emerge in a swarm.

To rain hard or heavily; pour.

To leave a hive as a swarm. Used of bees.

To pour out or empty

To move or gather in large numbers

To be stocked to overflowing.

To be overrun; teem

To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.

(obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.

(archaic) To empty.

(computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.

To pour (especially with rain)

(intransitive) To move as a swarm.

To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

(intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.

To think fit.

(transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.

To pour; - commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.

(transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.

To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.

To think fit.

To breed multitudes.

To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.

To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; - said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.

To produce; to bring forth.

To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.

Be teeming, be abuzz;

To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.

Move in large numbers;

To abound; to be filled (with).

To breed multitudes.

To crowd or throng.

A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.

Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.

Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.

A moving crowd

A group of many insects;

Be teeming, be abuzz;

Move in large numbers;